Eartumpet : Roger Mills, Musician, Composer and Sound Designer

Bakkus - Earthfall / Theatre Chorea

Soundtrack for Earthfall collaboration with Theatre Chorea (Poland)
Directed by Jessica Cohen & Jim Ennis
Original choral works by Maciej Rychly
Music and Sound Design Roger Mills and Paul Wigens
2006

Earthfall - Bakkus - Music by Roger Mills, Paul Wigens and Maciej Rychly

Touring the UK and Europe in 2007

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Big Hands - Gerald Tyler

Written and Performed by Gerald Tyler
Music written and composed by Limbo

Big Hands is a collaboration between playwright, performer and raconteur Gerald Tyler and Limbo. It's a story of Mr. Lewis, a private investigator who is engaged by a mysterious client to track down her one and only love. The absent love transpires to be the last remaining Angel still living on earth. Before long Mr. Lewis and the Angel become friends, and the client is discovered to be something other than the pining spouse she claims.

It is a mulit media theatre noir performance, combining live music by Limbo and real time and pre-recorded film. It premiered in Cardiff UK at the end of September 2007.

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At Swim Two Boys - Earthfall

Directed by Jessica Cohen & Jim Ennis
Music and Sound Design by Roger Mills

Earthfall - at swim two boys - music by Roger Mills

Inspired by Jamie O’Neill’s award-winning novel about the developing love between two teenage boys against the backdrop of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. It is a tender andvisually beautiful production performed in a set that gradually fills with water with live music, film and breathtaking choreography.

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I can't stand up for falling down - Earthfall

Directed by Jessica Cohen & Jim Ennis
Music by Roger Mills & John Wygens
2003

Earthfall - i cant't stand up for falling down - music by Roger Mills and Jon Wygens

A dancer, romancer, refugee, soldier, singerstand-up, stuntman, builder and bomber collide in an urban vision where blood meets sweat, tears and humour. Vital theatre. A fast, furious and fervent performance of extreme dance, film, live music, DJ and stand-up as six characters go in search of a new life and end up a family of outcasts in the remains of a house. High energy dance and physical theatre interacting with camera's, projections, film and music.

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Rococo Blood - Earthfall

Directed by Jessica Cohen & Jim Ennis
Music by Roger Mills, Paul Wigens and John Wygens
2001

Earthfall - Rococo Blood - Music by Roger Mills, Paul Wigens and John Wygens

ROCOCO BLOOD fuses superb radical dance with exceptional live music and stunning visual imagery in a dynamic dance theatre work. Memories of first fights and first love are unmasked as extreme dance and live music. Exposing the tyrannies within human relationships and the telling of the personal histories and tensions in a fusion of tenderness, violence, pathos and humour.

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Into The Deep

Written and Performed by Circomedia
Music and Sound Design by Roger Mills
1999

Circomedia - Into The Deep - Music by Roger Mills

Devised by the renown international theatre / circus school Circomedia, 'Into The Deep' was performed on Bristol's harbourside and featured live music mixing and high energy stage performance with direction from Circus Oz.

"Dazzling skill, energy, commitment and vision... a spectacle with attitude and sublime soundtrack".

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Invisible Bullets - Blast Theory

Written and Performed by Blast Theory
Music by Statik Sound System

1994

Invisible Bullets is an installation/performance that was first performed in Hoxton, London in July 1994 as part of the Fete Worse Than Death. Commissioned by Joshua Compston of Factual Nonsense (but never paid for) the work was performed for two days alongside Leigh Bowery's Minty and The Raincoats.

Looking at the current obsession with crime reconstructions; the piece features exploding bullet hits courtesy of a film special effects company.

Lasting up to 10 hours per day the piece re-enacts a murder again and again, each time changing the method of presentation: sometimes performed casually in balaclavas, at other times psychotically in underwear.

Music and Sound Design by Statik Sound System - Keith Bailey, Rob Conn, Andy Jenks, Roger Mills and Pete Webb.

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Stampede - Blast Theory

Written and Performed by Blast Theory
Music by Statik Sound System
1994

Blast Theory - Stampede - Music by Statik Sound System - Photograph by Neil Jenkins

Stampede is a promenade piece looking at how crowds react during rioting. At what point are you prepared to declare yourself publicly? What would make you take to the streets? Performed in theatres and nightclubs Stampede included excerpts from a secret police manual about riot control, Terminator and interviews with the six performers about loss of control. A system of pressure pads allowed the audience to trigger recordings of different mind control techniques. A live video projection link provided surveillance of different areas of the space which, at times, was the only way to see the performance.

Music and Sound Design by Statik Sound System - Roger Mills, Keith Bailey, Rob Conn, Andy Jenks and Pete Webb.

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