Gary Hayes can be contacted at email: mail@korkyt.net

Biography

Gary became interested in music at an early age and was playing guitar and clarinet by the age of 9.  He was already composing piano pieces by the age 11 and was playing & writing in several signed bands through to early twenties. He gained a BA in music & physics at Manchester University. After University Gary founded Audio Images his own music and multimedia production company and began creating commercial music for TV, Radio and Advertising. He also co-produced and worked with renowned Manchester bands during this period. He composed many library albums and had works regularly played on BBC TV and National Radio, scores for documentaries and drama, including stage work.
Gary also began teaching Music and Multimedia Production at Central Manchester College for two years before moving to the London based Guildhall School and finally lecturing at the famous BRIT School for four years. At the BRIT school he mentored emerging young artists in the studio and developed new forms of interactive on and offline performance pieces. Gary also organised, performed and composed for contemporary music festivals in London in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Music.
After this stint as a mentor in new music he worked at the BBC for eight years as editor and then Development Producer but continued scoring and writing music for film, TV and interactive including several at the BBC . He has a continued interest in the participatory potential for music creation in a web 2.0 world. Gary's versatility lies in his being able to exhibit the sensitivity in combining music of different cultures required for a wide range of film genre and being able to utilise both full orchestral scoring through arrangement and production to cutting edge electronic music realisation and sound design.

 Affiliations

Member of British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA), PRS, MCPS, BAFTA and Advocate Member of the American Film Institute

 Recent works

Documentary
  • The Musical Nomad, BBC TV Central Asia Music 1hr documentary - Title music
  • State Apart (Northern Ireland War), BBC TV interactive 9 part series - Non-linear score
  • Railways of Europe, Salford Films. 12 one hour TV docs - Full scores
  • Human Body, BBC TV interactive 3 part series - Titles/incidental
  • Astronomy with Patrick Moore, Salford Films, 1 hr documentary - Full score
  • Radio, news, documentary and drama shows – Titles and incidental
Drama
  • King Pawn – Film short paralleling a chess game with destiny and free will
  • 24/7 – Film short about a life that has lost contact with nature
  • Alternate – Film short about life, death, belief and reality
  • Playground – Film short with the grotesque childlike fantasies of two boys
Commercial albums
  • Beneath the Sand (ethnic, film and high tech hybrid), Music for Film (compilation of film themes),
  • Angel of the Subway (electronica themes), Awakening (acoustic themes)
  • Other solo albums: Eyes of the City, Korkyt’s Dance, Leap of Life, Global Odyssey, Through Chagall’s Eyes,
  • Life Before Life, Edge of Reason, Excurse & Mind Vault.
  • Library albums included: Audio Images, Audio Business & Audio Journey

Musician skills:

  • Acoustic instruments: Saxophones, harp, piano, guitars (classical, steel and electric), clarinets, piano, flutes, cello, bass, voice, world (eg: saz, komuz, tar, tabla, talking drum etc)...
  • Music tech: ProTools, Logic, Reason, Live, Cubase, Revision, Soundtrack, ARP2600, Atmosphere, Koan etc:
  • Video tech: FinalCut HD, Avid, Media100, AfterEffects, DVD Studio Pro, Motion etc:

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