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18 months ago, we worked on an augmented reality project with our friend Hudson-Powell called Hungry Hungry Eat Head. The project was made part of the MOMA catalogue in New-York in the Spring and is now currently exhibited as part of the Talk To Me exhibition.
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the music for the project:

After providing the score for their art patron project one the summer, we also collaborated with the good teams at Mother London to provide the music for the UK TV campaign for Beck's Vier.
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the music for the commercial:

As we mentioned before, French artist JR has been chosen to be man of the year 2011 for TED.com and recently presented his project for the year. It's called Inside Out and takes his work a step further. We were asked to write the music for the project presentation. We love working with the man, enough said...
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the music for the film:

We collaborated with our good friends at Culture Shock to provide the score for a series of web documentaries for Sotheby's. The series were hosted by Tim Marlow, curator of the White Cube Gallery.
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the music for the series:

We were commissioned by Mother London to write the score for Beck's Green Box project, promoting the works of up and coming artists alongside confirmed names in augmented reality. The project brings together art and technology and we hope that the project will be a success and reconducted for the years to come.
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the music and the sound indentity for the films, here are a couple of examples of the different scores provided:

A few months back, we were asked by Prune Nourry to provide music to her solo show Holy Daughters. The show turned out to be very successful and has now been chosen to feature in the Pompidou Centre in Paris, as part of an exhibition about India.
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the score of this great project:

Another month, another collaboration with our good friends (and extremely talented fellows) Hudson-Powell. This time around, it's for a japanese TV campaign for McDonald's. It was great fun creating the music and the sounds for this great animation. Always a pleasure to collaborate with these guys...
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the music and the sounds for the film:

We've completed a very interesting piece of music for a Roomba robot TV campaign for Europe. The spot was directed by the great Luc Janin and we provided the track and all the intricate sound effects that melt into the music...
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the score of this nice little project:

We've just finished collaborating with Award-winning director Martin Fougerol of Alex & Martin fame and Paris' COSA Films to make this great film about the work of classic graffiti artist JonOne for the Abbe Pierre Foundation in Paris.
Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the score of this amazing project and re-interpreted Abbe Pierre's 1954 call to arms, reaching out to the people of France to help the homeless in the cold weather:

After repeated requests, we've finally uploaded an extract of the original first film of JR's ongoing project "Women Are Heroes" which culminated in the release of the artist's feature film of the same name, acclaimed in the Cannes film festival in 2010 and in the theaters in 2011.
The film was directed by JR with Anthony Dickenson and Dan Lowe. The music was composed and produced by Jean-Gabriel Becker for Sounds & Sons, marking our first of many collaborations with JR.
This is a rare document as this film in its entirity was only released in art galleries during JR's shows around the world in 2008, 2009 and 2010:

We've just finished the music for JR's short film about his recent work in Shanghai. Following his work on JR's feature film, that was released with great success in the theatres in France last week, Jean-Gabriel Becker composed and produced the score of this amazing exhibition of JR's new project, "The Wrinkles Of The City":

We're happy to announce that we've just started to collaborate with talented composer Masaki Hosotani, who's joining the ranks of Sounds & Sons for some more sonic adventures.
You can have a look at some of his work on our Vimeo page,
This great film he made for Bedwin this year is a great start:

JR's feature film "Women Are heroes" is finally being released in theatres, starting with France on the 12th January.
Check out the trailer below and don't miss it when it comes near you and enjoy the score Sounds & Sons' Jean-Gabriel Becker composed for the film, while you wait for more forthcoming collaborations with JR.

SOUNDS & SONS WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011
In 2011, JR's feature film with our music on it is released, we put some music into the MOMA in New-York, we've got new releases all around, we're looking East with opportunities opening in the far East, and most importantly, there'll be plenty of exciting new music to make and to listen to.
In a few meaningful words, we're really looking forward to 2011 and send all our best wishes for 2011 to all of our fans, colleagues and collaborators.

We've composed the music for this super interesting film for the White Cube Gallery about the work of Antony Gormley, which is currently exhibited in the alpine views of Austria.

A few months back, we collaborated with our friends Hudson-Powell and wrote several pieces of music for this interactive piece called Grazing Jellies, which was shown as part of the AND festival.
We just heard the wonderful news that the piece has just been integrated into the catalogue of the Museum Of Moderm Art (MOMA) in New-York City. We're delighted to write the name of Sounds & Sons in the books of this great institution and are hoping for the work to be exhibited in the coming year.

We've just completed a great little film for the Victoria & Albert museum. It is the work of director Federico Urdaneta with whom we collaborated in composing a modern waltz bringing together the traditional structure of the waltz with an edgy and modern fuzz.

A few months ago, we mixed and did additional production on tracks by ex-Bondo Do Role Marina Gasolina for her forthcoming album.
The first single of those sessions called Leone is finally out. A great and haunting track with a great and haunting video.

A few days ago, we got the great news that our friend and collaborator JR has been awarded the very prestigious TED awards for 2011.
The award celebrates his work as an artist, which Sounds & Sons has been lucky enough to be a part of over the last couple of years, with Jean-Gabriel Becker composing several scores for video works as part of his exhibitions, as well as part of the score for his forthcoming feature film "Women Are Heroes", due out in January 2011.
Check out the TED acceptance video.

We finally uploaded the latest V&A documentary that will be the museum's main exhibition for this year...
It was directed by Tom Haines and scored by Jean-Gabriel Becker for Sounds & Sons, with violin parts by Jordan Hunt and clarinet by Naomi...

We helped out our friend director Chino Moya by providing him with sound editing, mixing and voice over recording for this great Playstation advert, that was rightfully featured in Shots in September...

This great little film commissioned by Nike and the Art Review shows a lot of prominent artists recreating the World Cup.
It was directed by Tom Haines and Chino Moya and scored by Etienne Tron (of Radioclit fame) and Jean-Gabriel Becker for Sounds & Sons.
Bright and summery... Enjoy!

Mike Lindsay from Tunng teamed up with Swedish artist Tulla to produce this haunting piece of music for this film advertising the Barbican's current exhibition called Surreal House.
This is another collaboration with director Tom Haines.

These are the sounds that come out of the Sounds & Sons office this summer.
Click on the image to open the Spotify playlist.

We're now back from a performance tour in the Philippines where we performed our own material mixed with carefully chosen tracks for the Fete De La Musique events in Cebu and Manila.
The events were organised by the local Alliances Francaises in Cebu and Manila.



While we were there, we performed a bunch of exciting DJ sets in local clubs in these two cities.
We've got further collaborations with local artists and organisations in the pipeline, mixing electronic music and traditional as well as modern Pinoy music.

We found this live footage of the John Foxx gig at the Roundhouse to give you an idea of the show and the synth setup onstage...

We've also been spending some time at the Cannes film festival, attending the screenings of "Women Are Heroes" for which we composed a good chunk of the score.

The film was greeted with an amazing welcome at the Palais Des Festivals,with a long standing ovation after its screening, as written here,
and great feedback from critics too as you can read there.

Here is a short snippet of the film to make you wait patiently until its general release after the summer.

We collaborated with synth legend John Foxx to bring John's classic albums back to life at the Roundhouse on Saturday 5th June.
The event was a great success with high quality sound and visuals and a crowd that asked for two encores.

We provided John with layers of analogue greatness bringing on stage the MOOGs and ARPs to recreate the great tracks of such groundbreaking albums as "Metamatic" or Ultravox's "Systems Of Romance" as well as John's most recent collaborations with Benge.

GREAT NEWS!! Long time collaborator JR's new feature film Women Are Heroes has just been selected for the official selection for the Camera d'Or in the Cannes international film festival.

We've been working on the soundtrack alongside Massive Attack and Patrice Bart Williams and will be heading over there to attend the showing at the Palais des Festivals and on the Croisette.

Read about it by clicking here

We've just completed a piece of music for our friends Hudson-Powell as part of the AND festival of new cinema and Digital culture, which took place in the past few days in the forest of Grizdale, Cumbria. It's an amazing project to be a part of called Grazing Jellies. Read about it by clicking here

We've just completed a great little soundtrack for a film by amazing director Tom Haines that will be shown as promotion for Ron Arad's current exhibition at the Barbican. Let there be ping, let there be pong…

We've just composed and privided all sonics for French street artist JR's new short film about his recent exhibition on the river banks of Paris.

In the works is also his debut feature film for which we're sharing composing duties with Massive Attack and Patrice Bart-Williams. We're really excited. More news soon…

And with Spring comes another collaboration with our friend Tom Haines.

This lovely little film is a preview for a longer piece that will illustrate the forthcoming Quilts exhibition at the V&A:

We're in the middle of sharing production duties with Radioclit on Ex Bondo Do Role's singer Marina Gasolina's forthcoming album. We're spending days at mixing these gems at Sounds & Sons headquarters. We'll keep in touch with links as soon as they come…

We've completed a piece of music for the Victoria & Albert Museum, as part of their video channel.

This film, centered around fashion designer Erdem was directed by Tom Haines and can be seen on the great V&A video channel, along half a dozen other pieces we've completed in the past few months…

Sounds & Sons have collaborated with Trevor Jackson to produce one of the legendary Playgroup remixes, this time for Tiga's "Sex O Clock". Great working with the man, happy with the result: