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John Eacott C.V.

Interactive music / special projects

Film soundtracks

(Composer / conductor)

Alfie

John Eacott's arranging and performing can is featured in the Jazz Club scene of this new blockbuster starring Jude Law. For general release late 2004

DNA - Museum

A 30 minute 5.1 surround soundtrack for a film about the origins of DNA, to be screened daily at a new 300 seat perpose built cinima at the Moorhead Science Park, Raliegh, North Carolina. Produced by Max Whitby for Red Green and Blue Company. 2003

Escape to Life

2000 35mm 90 mins. Jezebel Films UK and zerofilm Berlin present in association with The National Lottery Funds through the Arts Council of England, ZDF/Arte, Filmforderung Hamburg and TVE 2 Finland a film by Andrea Weiss and Wieland Speck. Featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave.
Winner of the Best Documentary Award, 2001 Seattle Film Festival.

New York Opening January 11th 2002

HOF Film Festival, London Amnesty International Film Festival 2001

Rotterdam and Berlin International Film Festivals 2001.

A Bit of Scarlet

Drama / documentary by Andrea Weiss.

1997 35mm 80min. Best Documentary, Festival de films de Femmes, Creteil, 1998.

A Place in the Sun

1996 35mm Constantine Giannaris, Maya Vision. Best Film, Athens Drama Film Festival 1996.

Chronos

1995 Video 55 mins. Malcolm Le Grice, Channel 4 Films

Three Steps to Heaven

1994 35mm 91 Mins. Constantine Giannaris, Featuring Katrin Cartlige, Frances Barber, James Fleet. Selected for the Directors Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 1995. Maya Vision / British Film Institute / Miramax.

Caught Looking

1993 40 mins Drama. Constantine Giannaris, Maya Vision / Channel 4. Winner 'Gay Teddy' Award; Berlin Film Festival 1994.

North of Vortex

1992 35mm 59 mins. Constantine Giannaris, Maya Vision 1992. Winner - Silver Plaque, Chicago Film Festival 1993

TV soundtracks

(Composer)

Century Road

1998 2 x 60 minute Documentaries. Directed by Penny Woolcock. Mentorn Barraclough Carey for BBC. TX worldwide from July 1998.

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great

1997 4 x 60 minute Documentaries presented by Michael Wood. Maya Vision for BBC (UK) and PBS (US) TX worldwide 1998 - 2004.

Serious Money

1997 to 1999. Title music and stings for thiss long running weekly series.

From Despair to Where?

1996 30 min Documentary. Produced by Rosie Thomas, Hindi Picture / Channel 4.

Picture This - An Island in Time

1996 30 mins (50 mins retail video) Documentary. Max Whitby, Red Green & Blue Co / BBC.

QED - Dark Side of the Sun

1995 30 mins Documentary. Max Whitby, Red Green & Blue Co / BBC

Essential History of Europe - Belgium

1994 30 mins Documentary. Gerry Troyna, Maya Vision / BBC.

Theatre

(Composer, arranger and musical director)

Timon of Athens

1999 Royal Shakespeare Company (Arranger, - Music composed by Duke Ellington). Seasons at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon and Barbican Theatre 1999 - 2000.

Gormenghast

1992 David Glass Ensemble. UK and British Council funded World Touring 1992 to 1997. Including 2 seasons at Lyric Theatre 1993 and 1994 .

Rumplestiltskin

(musical)

1991 Proteus Theatre Company. Regional tour 1992. Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond 1997.

Popeye

1990 David Glass Ensemble. UK tour1990, West End season - Arts Theatre 1993, Tours of US and Canada 1992.

Bozos Dead

1991 David Glass Ensemble. UK tour 1990.

The Complete Casanova

1991 Proteus Theatre Company. Regional tour.

Recording and Publishing

eacott / mogini

'improvisation3' in unknown public up14 'bloody amateurs' 2002

Microgroove

1988 - 1990 Signed to Island Records and Island Publishing. Composed, co-produced and released 1 album.

The Human Groove 1988.

Loose Tubes

1985 - 1988 Signed to E.G. Records. Recorded 3 albums achieving national and international acclaim.

Loose Tubes 1985

Delightful Precipice 1987

Hermetos Giant Breakfast 1990

Roman Holliday

1982 to 1984 Signed to Jive Records / Zomba Publishing. Released 3 singles and 2 albums released worldwide. 'Don't Try to Stop It' reached UK no. 14 in July 1983. 3 appearances on Top of the Pops in addition to worldwide touring and TV.

Cookin on the Roof 1983

Fire Me Up 1984

Performing and session work

(trumpet & flugelhorn)

stereo MC's

Goldie

Saturnzreturn 1997

the hKippers

A Regular member since 1988 along with Stephen Warbeck (Oscar winning composer of 'Shakespeare in Love', Paul Bradley ('Nigel' in Eastenders) Andrew Rankin (The Pogues) etc. Frequent live performances, TV and radio broadcasts. Albums 'Gutted' 1997 and 'Filleted' 2000.

other performances and session work with:

the Pogues, The The, Ladysmith Black Mambaza, Georgie Fame and a few others...

Interactive music / special projects

Intelligent Street

A major responsive sound installation located at the University of Westminster, London UK and the Interactive Institute, Pitea, Sweden. The installation allows users of each space to adapt and generate a unique soundscape by sending text messages from their mobile phone.

http://www.intelligentstreet.net/

www.ambigence.com
www.westminster.ac.uk
www.tii.se

Diffusion - Generative radio jingles for Resonance FM

A package of generative (generated uniquely every time they are played) radio jingles for the Resonance FM 104.4 show 'Diffusion'.

www. resonancefm .com

Emotions

A CDrom by Cambridge University and Red Green and Blue Company 2002. Music and sound design by je.
Nominated for BAFTA 2002

MORPHEUS >> emergent music

An album featuring 16 tracks of generative dance and beats based tunes featuring Fabrice Mogini, Lapdance, /fO, Alex Marcou, jnrtv and mintyfresh. Published by mushimushi 2001.

Master Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts

Florida Oct 20th to Nov 10th 2001. Along with master artist filmakers Alan Berliner and Andrea Weiss. atlantic center for the arts

The Street

University of Westminster October 2000. Commemorating the 5th anniversary of the redevelopment of the Harrow Campus, this interactive music installation responds to the users that pass through. John Eacott & Ross Clement 2000.

another strangeAttraction

an exhibition of interactive music installations featuring John Eacott, Max Eastley and Dominic Robson

Roots & Routes

Special commission by Buckinghamshire County Council for the Millennium Dome. Performed June 26th 2000. dome2000.co.uk

@Bristol

music for 2 major exhibits at 'the first true science centre of the 21st century' Opening June 2000. at-bristol.co.uk

Stella Artois

music for the new Stella Screen web based animation series. Feb 2000. stellascreen.com

National Centre of Popular Music

Special 20 minute 3D ambisonic soundscape commissioned for a unique 200 seat hemispherical auditorium. Features over 20 live ensembles from hip hop and grunge through calypso and symphony orchestra. Played 6 times daily from March 1999 to 2001.

jnrtv

Live generative dance music performances 1999 - 2004.

Test Dept.

Composer and orchestral director, Live performance spectaculars at Paddington 1985, Vancouver 1986, Valladollid 1987, 'The Second Coming'; special commission for Glasgow year of culture 1990. Culminated in the CD 'Pax Britannica' an oratorio recorded by The Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Jungle Records 1990.

Press quotes

Escape to Life

'a wonderfully complicated dysfunctional-family story' New York Metro 1/12/01

another strangeAttraction july 2000 - morley gallery, waterloo

'Eacott's piece is hardly ambient or mechanical - its a two-minute modal workout for saxophone, trombone, trumpet, bass and drums. Yet every time it gets going you hear a different piece. Eacott has taken advantage of the formal shape of jazz, recording the performers separately, chopping their parts into four-bar segments and initiating a game whose elements are recombined every time visitors wnap their fingers: the groovy, post-bop equivaleent of Mozart's musical dice game.' Guardian 21st July 2000

RSC production of Timon of Athens 1999-2000 (Arranger and musical advisor)

'bang on the money' Independent 27/8/99
'a rare and raucous revival' The Times 26/8/99
'lively' Daily Telegraph 26/8/99
'the production makes excellent use of the jazz score for the play' Sunday Telegraph 29/8/99
'The production is tremendously enhanced by Duke Ellingtons jazz score.. It starts the show with a terrific swing.' The Mail on Sunday 5/9/99
'Duke Ellingtons music.. underwrites the mood of Timon's spending spree and is perfect for the entertainment at this lavish first banquet.' The Spectator 4/9/99
'This music also brassily underscores the showy Jacobean spectacle' The Stage 2/9/99
'Duke Ellington's delightfully smoochy music' Time Out 1/9/99
'The power of Duke Ellington's music' Birmingham Evening Mail 26/8/99

Gormenghast 1992 to 1997

(Composer and Musical Director)

'...a gloriously impossible realisation of Mervyn Peake's soaring flight of fancy...' Guardian 24/1/92
'magnificent to watch' Independent 20/3/92
'John Eacotts music perfectly fits this primitive and violent conception' - Time Literary Supplement 27/ 3/ 92
'John Eacotts pervasive soundtrack, while powerful, grows portentous...' - Evening Standard 19/3/92
'The production's greatest asset is John Eacott's synthesised soundtrack' Time Out 25/ 3/92
'John Eacotts marvellous music' - Oxford Mail 29/1/92
'John Eacotts arresting score' - City Limits 26/3/92
'John Eacotts music is a constant and welcome support' Financial Times 31/1/92
'a distorted vision of our own world' Times 21/3/92
'the inventiveness of the production was a pleasure' Sunday Times 29/3/92
'brilliantly evoked with a combination of sound .. and music by John Eacott' Time Out 14/7/93
'please may we have a tape of John Eacott's heavenly music?' Birmingham Post 6/5/93
'an experience you'll never forget.' Evening Standard 12/8/93
'a hectic cross fertilisation of musical styles and sound effects' City Limits July 1993

Loose Tubes (1984 - 1990)

Composer and performer

'The most impressive young orchestra to have emerged in London' John Fordham, Guardian
'immense power and an uneasy sense of loosely - harnessed conflict... Enough brilliance on display to merit burglar proof grilles.' Melody Maker
'the most original, stimulating and dynamic event in British Jazz.' Stuart Nicholson, The Wire.
'Britain's most accomplished and contemporary minded players.' Mark Gilbert, Jazz Journal.
'Vibrant and unpredictable' New Musical Express.
'A cornucopia of approaches united by infectious enthusiasm' The Times.
'Loose Tubes manage to be humorous, anarchic, eclectic, musically extra-terrestrial, yet also remain musically extremely accessible.' The Observer
'The best instrumentalists of their generation.' John Gill - Time Out.

'Everything was done with blinding musicianship and icy control, but the most notable thing about it was the presentation...The idea was to turn a concert into a good time party - and it worked.' Dave Gelly - The Observer.