News - November 07
Earcom is a sound
effects, music and voice production company that specialises in working
across media including film, television, games, radio and mobile.
Film, Television and Radio:
For Vanilla
Films, we composed the music and mixed the Warner
Breaks 2007
television advert campaign, provided the music for the UK Film
Council's soon to be
launched disability awareness campaign and composed the music and mixed
a short film for the Holocaust Educational Trust.
The film Stagknight
is now
complete following the sound mix at Shepperton Studios. It features a
wide
range of music, from dark orchestral through to glam rock and hip hop,
read a review on the Variety
website.
Scamp is Tiscali's (formerly Homechoice) award winning childrens channel, having scooped the Interactive Emmy Award 2006. We've composed stings and background music for Scamp's June update.
We recorded the voice-over, sound designed and mixed Butlin's 'Kid's Love It!' television ad campaign.
For BBC Radio 4, we provided live electronic studio
effects and post-production effects for Dirk Gently's Detective
Agency and the 2005 series of The Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy. Our sister company, Perfectly Normal Productions had
its well
reviewed debut on Radio 2 recently with Neither
Here Nor There - A Celebration of Chic Murray, which we mixed and
edited.
Games:
We've worked on over thirty games across many platforms. Recent titles include THQ's Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights, Eidos's Bionicle Heroes, Empire Interactive's Project Fashion and 2k's Ghost Rider. We've also worked on many mobile games such as Miami Vice, Free Yayo, 2 Fast 2 Furious - Tokyo Drift and can supply audio compatible across a wide range of handsets.
Work has just started on the music for an
innovative MMO game for a San Francisco company and a PSP puzzle game.
Installations:
We're the leading developer of commercial generative
music installations. We've created generative soundtracks for Glasgow
Airport, Intercontinental Hotel and Tescos, inspired by Brian Eno's
Music for Airports idea and developed for The Sound Agency.
We've also created a generative on-hold music track and
created a wide range of generative music presets and assisted in system
development for Futureacoustic.
