Sound
Mark Ayres
EN cinema · 51 credits
Mark Ayres is an electronic musician, composer and audio engineer. Ayres studied music and electronics at Keele University. He also worked as a sound engineer at TV-am between 1982 and 1987. As a television composer, he became known for providing incidental music on the original series of Doctor Who. Ayres's work on broadcast Doctor Who was during Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor, comprising The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric. Ayres was hired after he sent producer John Nathan-Turner a demonstration video containing music he had written to accompany Remembrance of the Daleks. Like most Doctor Who incidental music composers during the 1980s, Ayres created the music electronically, principally using digital synthesisers and samplers. Ayres was also involved in the last days of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, cataloguing and archiving their recordings for future use. As part of the BBC's unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team, Ayres has also done much of the audio restoration work for the later VHS Doctor Who releases, as well as many of the DVD releases, and all of the "Missing Soundtrack" CD releases since 1999.
Known for
Filmography
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Shada
Sound, Original Music Composer
Doctor Who at the Proms
as Self, Music
Horror on the High Rise
as Presenter
Cybermen
Thanks
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
Actor, Production Consultant
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Music Consultant
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Original Music Composer
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
Original Music Composer
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Original Music Composer
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
Producer, Original Music Composer, Sound
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
Original Music Composer
30 Years in the TARDIS
Original Music Composer
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Original Music Composer
Sophie’s Choice
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Original Music Composer
Wartime
Original Music Composer
Myth Runner
Original Music Composer
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
Original Music Composer