Film, TV, Radio, Podcasts

Gareth Fry is a multi award winning sound designer, best known for his cutting-edge work in theatre, on productions such as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and Complicité’s The Encounter. He has also designed events and exhibitions, from the V&A’s landmark David Bowie Is exhibition, to being asked by Danny Boyle to design the sound effects for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. Film, TV, Radio, Podcast projects include:

The Dark is Rising - A 12 part audio drama for the BBC - nominated for the Best Use of Sound award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024
The Long Goodbye livestream edition - sound edit, design & mix for Riz Ahmed’s livestream performance. Stream here.
Typical - sound edit, design & mix. Stream here.
Shifts - BBC Radio 3. Written by Stephanie Jacob. Produced by Judith Dimant for Wayward Productions and Jules Wilkinson. Listen here.
So You Want a Revolution - sound editor & design for feature length documentary, directed by Emily Harris
The Discovery Adventures - 7-part podcast for Land Rover, winner of two Gold awards at British Podcast Awards - sound design, edit, mix
CBeebies Thumbelina, The Snow Queen, Nutcracker, Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol - sound effects and live sound element for BBC TV

Gareth is represented by Clare Fox: http://www.clarefox.co.uk.

Free Your Mind

Directed by Danny Boyle, this televised version of Free Your Mind, a dance piece inspired by The Matrix, was broadcast on BBC2 on New Year’s Eve 2023.

The Dark is Rising

A 12 part audio drama for the BBC made with Complicite and Catherine Bailey Productions. No.1 in Apple’s Fiction podcast charts in 23 countries. Broadcast on BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4. Available on BBC Sounds. The Dark is Rising was nominated for the Best Use of Sound award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024. This featured binaural recording, a full foley track, extensive sound effects creation editing and creation, and delivering mixes for BBC Sounds and Radio 4.

Secret Cinema presents Ghostbusters: Gates of Gozer

I created multiple design elements for this virtual live experience, ranging from UI effects, cinematic, live interactive sequences and 3D binaural effects.

Layer

Audio drama for ETT podcast series “That Podcast”

Written by Ella Hickson. Directed by Sacha Wares.

The Long Goodbye livestream edition - Riz Ahmed

I sound designed and mixed this performance by Riz Ahmed, which took place at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, featuring a mix of storytelling and live performance.

Kirsty Housley - Director

Andrea Gelardin  - Creative Director

Typical

Soho On Demand

This 1 hour special was filmed in August 2020 in response to the death of George Floyd, telling the story of Black British ex-serviceman Christopher Alder who died in police custody. It stars Richard Blackwood and is directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour. It was based on the one-man stage play which featured sound design by Duramaney Kamara. I created additional sound design for this version, worked as sound recordist, and edited and mixed the film.

Shifts - Between The Ears

BBC Radio 3

This program features interviews recorded with frontline health workers during the Coronavirus lockdown, weaved through with poems based on these interviews by Stephanie Jacob and soundscape by Gareth Fry.

Transmitted 18th August 2020

Written by Stephanie Jacob. Produced by Judith Dimant for Wayward Productions and Jules Wilkinson.

*** winner of Audio Production Life in Covid award 2021 ****

You Say You Want A Revolution?

I worked with film director Emily Harris on her feature length documentary, You Say You Want A Revolution?, which took some of the documentary material she filmed for the V&A Museum’s exhibition of the same name, and expanded it with new interviews to look at how the finished and unfinished revolutions of the late 1960s changed the way we live today and think about the future. Interviews include Yoko Ono, Twiggy, Stewart Brand, Michael Lang, Peter Coyote, Country Joe MacDonald and many more. The film premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival, not far from the birthplace of many of the revolutions featured in the film. Work included dialog editing, effects editing and sound design.

The Bookshop

I’ve designed the sound, edited FX and dialog edited for this short film directed by long-term collaborator Susan Lynch, starring The Charlatan’s singer Tim Burgess. With beautifully recorded sound from Richard Miller, Foley from the Foley Factory, and mixing from Conor Kelly at Goldcrest. IMDB

CBeebies Thumbelina

Directed by Jon Spooner. Featuring a seven piece band, this musical was broadcast on CBeebies over Christmas and on BBC2 on Christmas Eve. I created sound FX, and supervised the live sound element for the audience.

In Search Of Greatness

I created additional sound design for this amazing documentary that looks at what it takes to make a great sports person, and how often they don’t fall within the confines of what statistics and metrics predict will lead to greatness. Directed by Gabe Polsky

Land Rover Discovery Adventures

I recorded, edited and mixed this 7-part podcast family drama for Cecilia and Mindshare, working closely with them and Land Rover to create an innovative podcast recorded in binaural audio, on location across the UK with a host of actors, presenters, explorers and sports personalities.

The Discovery Adventures won the Gold award for Most Original Podcast; for Branded Content; and a Bronze award for Best Fiction at the British Podcast Awards.

Omay - Between The Ears

BBC Radio 3

Working with producer David Waters, we created this documentary about anthropologist Laura Rival, who spent many years living in the Amazon in a Huaorani community. It intersperse’s David’s interviews with her, with her own recordings made there, and binaural recordings I made in the Amazon Rainforest.

Transmitted 16th June 2018

Review, by Miranda Sawyer, in the Observer “And may I recommend yesterday’s Between The Ears? What a lovely programme. It concerned a European anthropologist, Laura Rival, who embedded herself in an Amazonian tribe (the Huaorani) in the 1980s. She brought her nine-year-old daughter, Emilia, with her. Sound designer Gareth Fry went to the Amazon himself to record the sounds there and these, mixed with Rival’s own archive forest recordings, made for an immersive experience. Rival was moving and revelatory. With the tribe, she said: “Life passes quickly and nothing happens.” With this programme, time stood still.”

CBeebies The Snow Queen

Directed by Jon Spooner. Featuring a five piece band, this musical was broadcast on CBeebies over Christmas and on BBC1 on Christmas Day 2017

CBeebies The Nutcracker

Directed by Jon Spooner. Featuring a nine piece mobile band, this musical was broadcast on CBeebies over Christmas and on BBC1 on Christmas Day

Cla'am

I sound designed, edited effects and dialog edited this short film, written and directed by Nathaniel Martello-White, starring Joel Fry, for Air Street Films, BBC Films and Creative England. Winner of the Raindance Festival award for Best UK Short Film.

CBeebies Alice in Wonderland 

Broadcast on CBeebies over Christmas and on BBC2 on New Year's Eve.

My Name is Peter Stillman VR

I created the sound design for this VR piece, which placed the user in the mind of Peter Stillman, a character from Paul Auster's novel The City of Glass. It was featured at Manchester's HOME, the Lyric Hammersmith and at the Venice Film Festival. For 59 Productions.

Home

I designed the sound for this short film, produced by 59 Productions with Riichard Curtis, which was broadcast on CBS as part of the coverage of the Global Citizen festival in New York, and was also screened to the United Nations General Assembly of world leaders.

Oxfam: Say No To Coal

I did the sound design for this animation for Oxfam. Animation was by Joseph Pierce (59 Productions). Music for the German and French versions was by Jeff Beal (House of Cards), and for the UK version was by Origamibiro. The English version is narrated by Simon Pegg.

A CBeebies Christmas Carol

Sheffield Crucible. Broadcast on BBC2 (on Christmas Eve) and CBeebies. Director: Jon Spooner. BBC website.

Opening Ceremony - Olympic Games, London 2012

Gareth was asked by director Danny Boyle to design the sound effects for the London 2012 Opening Ceremony. A range of sound effects were created to accompany video sequences, as well as for the various events that happened in the stadium. 

Leading a team consisting of sound designers Rich Walsh, Pete Malkin and foley artist Ruth Sullivan, our work was heard by 80,000 people in the stadium, broadcast to 27 million UK viewers and an estimated 900 million people globally.

Trauma

Short film. Director: Mark Kinsella. Produced by Nick Laurence and Ann Phillips. A Film London: London Calling short.
This film was particularly challenging as it contained no dialogue or music.  More on IMDB

Chicken Soup with Barley 

BBC Radio 3

Directed by Simon Godwin, produced by Catherine Bailey

Transmitted 20th May 2012

Sucker Punch

Web trailer - sound and music. Directed by Sacha Wares.

Beauty & the Beast

National Theatre web trailer - sound design. Directed by Katie Mitchell

Nightswimming

Nightswimming - Screen Yorkshire (short). Directed by Dominic Leclerc 

Protect Me From What I Want

Screen Yorkshire (short). Directed by Dominic Leclerc.

Touching Space

Exhibition at the Royal Academy. Directed by Catherine Alexander  & Victoria Gould

 OK Computer

BBC Radio 4 Friday play

Directed by Lu Kemp. Written by Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith and Chris Thorpe. Performed by: Tom Brooke, Liz White, Federay Holmes, Pieter Lawman, Chris Thorpe

Transmitted: 19th October 2007, 11 April 2009 and 7th October 2012

Jump

BBC Radio 4 Afternoon play

Directed by Lu Kemp. Written by Alexis Zegerman. Performed by Danny Worters

Transmitted: 15th June 2007

Attempts On Her Life

National Theatre web trailer - sound design. Directed by Katie Mitchell

 The Overwhelming

BBC Radio 3

Directed by Max Stafford-Clark

Transmitted: 2007

Weather Patterns

London Film Festival. Directed by Simon McBurney