Tim is a highly skilled and innovative music producer specialising in creating captivating and memorable soundscapes for film, television, and video games. With a keen ear for detail and a passion for blending traditional and contemporary sounds, Tim’s work evokes emotion and enhances storytelling.
Tim has collaborated with a diverse range of directors, producers, animators, and game developers, delivering unique compositions that perfectly align with the vision of each project.
Tim’s approach to music production is both artistic and technical. He combines his deep understanding of music theory with advanced production techniques, ensuring each piece is meticulously crafted to achieve the desired impact. Whether it’s a haunting score for a thriller, an uplifting theme for a TV series, or an immersive soundtrack for a video game, Tim’s compositions are tailored to enhance the narrative and engage the audience.
In addition to his music production work, Tim brings a wealth of experience from his background in digital design and creative technology. This unique blend of skills allows him to deliver comprehensive audio-visual solutions that effectively communicate brand stories and captivate audiences.
Music for Moving Image
Anna The Apple by Poppy Houston
Animation: Poppy Houston (Website | Instagram) Music and Sound Design: Tim Shepherd
The film, written as a series of children’s stories and adapted for screen by the artist, is characterized by the use of a colourful frame by frame animation to narrate the emotive story of a young apple trying desperately to escape her threatened orchard in pursuit of a more natural world. It showcases the artist’s ability and desire to tell stories about the struggles that individuals face challenging the status quo and the power of our environments.
Palingenesis by Jin Chen
Animation: Jin Chen Music: Tim Shepherd
This music draws inspiration from Jin’s animation, embodying the cyclical nature of birth and death. It portrays this theme as a journey through free improvisation over synth pads, creating a soundscape that is both melancholic and hopeful. The piano uses a slightly detuned note that makes it more accurately resonate with the harmonic overtone series.
Chinese Characters by Xinyi Cao
Animation: Xinyi Cao Music: Tim Shepherd
The brief for this music was to narrate the evolution of writing, from ancient times to the future. It begins with traditional Chinese instrumentation, gradually transitioning to more electronic sounds as the narrative progresses to characters being written on screens instead of paper.
