BBC Creative

By Alex Baranowski Composer Tagged as BBC Creative, Cannes Lion, D&AD, Music + Sound Awards, Sound Design, Superunion

BBC Two Idents win Music + Sound Award for Best Sound Design

Very happy to have won a Music + Sound Award for my soundtrack for the BBC Two idents working alongside BBC Creative and Superunion. It has been a great year with the project picking up pretty much every award going, including a Cannes Lion, D&AD Pencil and a host of other top industry awards. (BBC Creative...

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By Alex Baranowski Composer Tagged as BBC Creative, BBC Two, Composer, DPA, Idents, Kontakt, Moog, Neve, Pro Tools, Recording Techniques, Roland, Roli, Royer, Slate + Ash, Sontronics, Soundgas, Spitfire Audio, Superunion, The Mill

BBC Two Idents: Anatomy of a Soundscape

BBC Two Idents Agency: BBC Creative / Superunion The Brief: Whole new set of idents for BBC Two television channel Each animation is visually inspired by a mood and relates to the programmes that appear before or after them, as well as the programme trailers within the junctions. A connecting thread and recognisable signature was...

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By Alex Baranowski Composer Tagged as Air Studios, BBC Creative, BBC One, Edward Usher, Emmy The Great, London Metropolitan Orchestra, Rogue Films, Sam Brown, Xander Hart

BBC One Christmas

2018 has been a wonderful year of collaborations with BBC Creative – starting with the World Cup Theme sung by Sir John Tomlinson; BBC Two’s incredibly innovative new idents; the score for the European Championships; a bit of Strictly… and now I’m very pleased to share BBC One’s film for Christmas 2018. Directed by...

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By Alex Baranowski Composer Tagged as Aardman, Ari Weinkle, BBC 2, BBC Creative, Conlan Normington, David McLeod, FutureDeluxe, Helmut Breineder, Idents, Kenneth Robin, Kijek & Adamski, Mainframe, Superunion, The Mill

Music and Sound Design for new BBC 2 idents

Very happy to announce I’ve been working on a brand new set of idents for BBC 2 – the first batch of which are out tomorrow (27th September). As both composer and sound designer on the project based at my London studio, my aim was to build unique soundscapes for each film that blurred the...

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By Alex Baranowski Composer Tagged as BBC Creative, European Championships, World Cup

BBC European Championships trail and opening titles

Fresh from working on the theme for the BBC’s 2018 World Cup coverage, I’ve been collaborating again with BBC Creative this time for the upcoming European Championships due to be broadcast on the BBC this August. I’ve written music both for the promo film below and the opening titles sequence…

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By Alex Baranowski Composer Tagged as BBC, BBC Creative, London Metropolitan Orchestra, Sir John Tomlinson, World Cup

BBC World Cup film “Making Of”

The BBC have released a short “making of” film for the World Cup film I arranged the score for, which was performed by Sir John Tomlinson and the London Metropolitan Orchestra at Abbey Road. Some footage from the recording can be seen in the film.

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By Alex Baranowski Composer Tagged as Abbey Road, BBC, BBC Creative, London M, Ochi Chernye, Russia, Sir John Tomlinson, Tapestry, World Cup

BBC World Cup Theme with Sir John Tomlinson

Very proud to have written the theme for the BBC World Cup coverage. Based on the Russian folk song “Ochi Chernye”, I arranged a new piece for full orchestra sung by Sir John Tomlinson, and recorded at Abbey Road Studio 1 by the London Metropolitan Orchestra conducted by Andy Brown. A making of film can...