Wednesday 1 December 2010

Please Find Enclosed

A collaborative installation piece I worked on with photographer Alyona Lariovna at LCC in June of this year. Taken a while to get round to posting. Sorry!

Please Find Enclosed from Rory James [Corsair] on Vimeo.

The Dawn

My second collaboration with Director Manav Dhir and Sound Designer par excellence Peter Warnock. This one is bad ass. Fo' Sho!

Dawn from Rory James [Corsair] on Vimeo.

'Me Julie...


Over the Summer of 2010 I worked on a version of August Strinbergs classic play "Miss Julie". The play was adapted from the original and directed by Anna Thomson, an MA Theatre Direction student at St Mary's in Twickenham. The play explores the psychology of a passionate woman - Miss Julie. At the turn of the 20th century when psychology was a new science, Strindberg focusses upon the battle between the sexes, the class war and an amazing power struggle between Jean, the valet, and Miss Julie the aristocrat's daughter. Miss Julie must fall down or be torn down (or does she fling herself?) from her ivory tower. She is compelled to sink to the lowest depths...

The play was performed for two nights in June at the Battersea Arts Centre in London.

Saturday 29 May 2010

The Ugly Happiness

I've finally been given the all clear to post this, and very happy about it I am! We won the Royal Television Society award for best student animation last year for this one. Rightly so, the animation is beautiful. Enjoy!

The Ugly Happiness from Rory James [Corsair] on Vimeo.

Wednesday 26 May 2010

Watching Millie


A recently completed LCC 2010 graduate film, directed by Tom Law. The sound and music are by Matt Appelhans and myself, respectively. Our version of the sound track wasn't used in the final edit, in favour of a more austere affair. C'est la vie.

Here's a sample from the soundtrack that wasn't used.

Watching Millie by CorsairUK

Sunday 16 May 2010

Blue Waters

This little gem has been M.I.A. for some time. I wrote this track in 2005(!) when I was sharing a house with my buddy Ventriloquist. He spent one hot summer night sitting out in our garden listening to this track on his mini-disk player over and over, and penned the lyrics in one sitting. The film was made a couple of years afterwards by Tom Collinson and deals with the nature of masculinity in a changing society.

S.A.V.E.

From a documentary I composed the music for in 2009 for the charity group WOMEN WITHOUT BORDERS. The documentary features 3 women: an ex-member of an Islamist organisation in the UK, a pioneer against violent extremism in Northern Ireland and a young woman affected by terrorism in Madrid. This Women without Borders SAVE / Sisters Against Violent Extremism feature was produced by Zia Trench.


Saturday 15 May 2010

"Aurora"

This is the sister piece to 'Transfer' (see earlier posts), performed on the 22nd March by 3rd yr Link Dance studenets at Islington's Urdang Academy.

From the show 'Projections'
3rd Year Link Dance group at The Urdang Acadamy. London UK
Choreographer: Mandy Braden.
Music: Orion By Corsair.

Tuesday 27 April 2010

Yo MTV Rocks!

Towards the tail end of 2009 MTV came to the animation dept at LCC offering FDA animation students the chance to make an ident for the channel. The project was to be Christmas themed, and if MTV liked any of the student's efforts then they would air them for a month over Christmas. Myself and my buddy Peter Warnock were appraoched by Manav Dhir, and Caspar Seale-Jones, both on the animation FDA, to make the soundtrack to their submission. Peter took care of sound design, whilst I made the music. Ours was the only ident that got aired. Bo! Selecta-ta-ta...

Friday 2 April 2010

"Transfer"

On the 22nd March, 3rd Year Link Dance students at the Urdang Academy in London performed two pieces for their degree show - "Projections". The two pieces were choreographed by the stupidly talented Mandy Braden and are entitled 'Transfer' and "Aurora". In her infinite wisdom Mandy approached me to compose scores for these pieces, and obviously I was suitably humbled at the opportunity. I can safely say that to sit in the audience on the opening night, watching 18 dancers throwing themselves around to your music is a goose-bump inducing experience, and one of my proudest as an artist. This video is of the 1st piece - Transfer, Aurora will follow shortly. (Film shot and edited by Chris Jones).

From the show 'Projections'
3rd Year Link Dance group at The Urdang Acadamy. London UK
Choreographer: Mandy Braden.
Music: Grey Sky Conduits (Lodestone Edit) By Corsair. Additional production & arrangement by Chris Redmond.