Tim Cowie
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Envision Energy

THE FUTURE LABORATORY BRAND FILMS

Client: The Future Laboratory 
Production company: Labmeta

I was invited to create the sound design for this series of audiovisual films exploring the different research processes and practices at The Future Laboratory, a future trends forecasting company based in London.

I created a layer of sound design to illustrate and match the animations putting each chapter into a different sonic space, and to compose an underlying bed of music that linked each section together. The brief was to create something slightly unsettling and challenging that resolved itself at the end of each chapter, reflecting the difficult journey many of their clients undertake.

Developed to be used as part of the brands website re-launch in 2017, the films explore the topics of strategic research, ethnography, multiple states, communications mapping, synchronicity and the curation of knowledge.

Envision energy Brand Films

Client: Envision
Agency: Bisqit | H+K
Production company: Labmeta

I was invited to create the sound design for this series of audiovisual films exploring the different research processes and practices at Envision a renewable energy company based in China.

Labmeta's visual approach was to model a set of behaviours and interactions between a grid of white dots representing Envision’s renewable electricity infrastructure (batteries, turbines, IoT platform, electric car) and a turbulent flow of natural energy.

My brief was to give each section a warm, uplifting sound track, which followed the particle animations. I used a combination of fm synthesis and string textures to elude to an orchestral sound. This builds to a warm major string chord delivering the company's logo and stapling "Orchestrating beautiful energy".

 

Director: Paul Mumford
Production: Annie Kwan
3D Animation: Rosie Emery | Tim Bacon
Audio: Tim Cowie