Are you looking for a sound to make your project stand out above the rest? After 5 years of professional experience in music making I'm confident I've learned to understand how to interpret your briefs and how we can bounce off each other and find the most exciting results. I take great pride in the music I help create and realize. Are you unsure about how to take your tracks to the next stage? Or do you need a composition/mix aesthetic that will synergize with your brand and hook in a larger audience? Whether it's writing, production, or mixing I'm sure I can bring a unique and well-tailored collaboration to your project. Here's a list of some credits: Mixing, Recording & Add-Prod | Wing Stem mixing, recording bass, and adding slight flourishes to the production. Score, foley & songwriting | Jazz Grant I Wrote the music for an animation by Jazz Grant for the Circa Art prize. used a mixture of recordings, and manipulated samples. Score, Foley & Songwriting | Roisin Jenner I wrote and composed the music to accompany the Animated model-set design by Roisin Jenner. Music Writer and Producer | Writers Mosaic Composed theme music and underscore, took field recordings for a new podcast called Spotlight, What We Leave We Carry. Musical Director & Composer | The Colour of Splash art exhibition | May 2023 Wrote numerous pieces including a generative ambient soundtrack and a 25-minute composition. I also did a live performance for two private viewings. Soundtrack Composer/Musical Director | Sort sol | July-Sept 2021 & March of 2023 Composed music and served as the Musical Director for two plays; Toska, a movement piece. Where have all our women gone, a one-woman play.

Louie J-Ward

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Are you looking for a sound to make your project stand out above the rest? After 5 years of professional experience in music making I'm confident I've learned to understand how to interpret your briefs and how we can bounce off each other and find the most exciting results. I take great pride in the music I help create and realize. Are you unsure about how to take your tracks to the next stage? Or do you need a composition/mix aesthetic that will synergize with your brand and hook in a larger audience? Whether it's writing, production, or mixing I'm sure I can bring a unique and well-tailored collaboration to your project. Here's a list of some credits: Mixing, Recording & Add-Prod | Wing Stem mixing, recording bass, and adding slight flourishes to the production. Score, foley & songwriting | Jazz Grant I Wrote the music for an animation by Jazz Grant for the Circa Art prize. used a mixture of recordings, and manipulated samples. Score, Foley & Songwriting | Roisin Jenner I wrote and composed the music to accompany the Animated model-set design by Roisin Jenner. Music Writer and Producer | Writers Mosaic Composed theme music and underscore, took field recordings for a new podcast called Spotlight, What We Leave We Carry. Musical Director & Composer | The Colour of Splash art exhibition | May 2023 Wrote numerous pieces including a generative ambient soundtrack and a 25-minute composition. I also did a live performance for two private viewings. Soundtrack Composer/Musical Director | Sort sol | July-Sept 2021 & March of 2023 Composed music and served as the Musical Director for two plays; Toska, a movement piece. Where have all our women gone, a one-woman play.

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Are you looking for a sound to make your project stand out above the rest? After 5 years of professional experience in music making I’m confident I’ve learned to understand how to interpret your briefs and how we can bounce off each other and find the most exciting results.

I take great pride in the music I help create and realize. Are you unsure about how to take your tracks to the next stage? Or do you need a composition/mix aesthetic that will synergize with your brand and hook in a larger audience? Whether it’s writing, production, or mixing I’m sure I can bring a unique and well-tailored collaboration to your project.

Here’s a list of some credits:

Mixing, Recording & Add-Prod | Wing

Stem mixing, recording bass, and adding slight flourishes to the production.

Score, foley & songwriting | Jazz Grant

I Wrote the music for an animation by Jazz Grant for the Circa Art prize. used a mixture of recordings, and manipulated samples.

Score, Foley & Songwriting | Roisin Jenner

I wrote and composed the music to accompany the Animated model-set design by Roisin Jenner.

Music Writer and Producer | Writers Mosaic

Composed theme music and underscore, took field recordings for a new podcast called Spotlight, What We Leave We Carry.

Musical Director & Composer | The Colour of Splash art exhibition | May 2023

Wrote numerous pieces including a generative ambient soundtrack and a 25-minute composition. I also did a live performance for two private viewings.

Soundtrack Composer/Musical Director | Sort sol | July-Sept 2021 & March of 2023

Composed music and served as the Musical Director for two plays; Toska, a movement piece. Where have all our women gone, a one-woman play.

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English
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Education

BA: Music Songwriting & Performance at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
September 9, 2018 - April 16, 2021
2:1
BTEC Music Technology at Bucks Collage group
August 29, 2016 - May 25, 2018
Merit
GCSE's at Chesham Grammar
December 23, 2024 - May 25, 2016
11 Gcse's ranging C-A

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Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet
    uniE608 Hardware Scoring
    For this project, I was commissioned by Director Maria Meco to score her dance film. The dancing in this piece is so expressive and I wanted to match that expression as closely as possible with sporadic flutes, twisting sax, and pulsating Piano. I layered most of the ambient textures first to dictate a rough outline of the story which wanted to enhance. I love the playfulness of the expressions, and I used the 3/4 twists and turns to play the instruments. all of which I recorded and mixed. I'm super happy with how this piece came together and so is the team that worked on it. If you like the score of this piece and would like to commission me to make you something similar please get in touch!
    uniE608 Composing for Jazz Grant Circa Prize Nominee
    My task was to write and produce the music to accompany this animation by circa prize nominee Jazz Grant. Jazz gave me so much creative freedom on this job which was exciting for me. We worked together on multiple revisions as she was constructing the animation. Scenes would often change in length and order but the approach remained the same, to reflect the details and nuances of the visual movements whilst changing the mood and capturing new feelings with each change in scenery. In Jazz's work, there's a lot to take inspiration from. The car screeches are made by manipulating synthesizer samples and the train by layering delayed drums. The explosions are mimicked with low rumbles and deep synth bass sounds. I enjoyed working with jazz on this and I really hope to work on more projects like this one in the future. you can find jazz and her work on her Instagram @jazzgrantstudio and her website https://www.twine.net/signin video advert composer musicproducer songwriter musicvideo
    uniE603 Writers Mosaic Podcast Theme Music
    In January 2024 I was commissioned by writing guild, Writers Mosaic, to write and produce the theme music for their podcast in a reggae/dub style. the project took one week in total. Both Collin and Jo were very happy with my creation and left me a nice review. "Louie Johnston-Ward has proved to be very willing to embrace commissions and to carry them out to very high standards. His compositions for WritersMosaic have shown that not only is he talented but he has a strong work ethic. Louie is conscientious and shows that really cares to meet our expectations. He is very attentive and responds well to feedback, producing work that improves on previous iterations. He also has a kind and considerate manner which makes it a pleasure to work with him. I highly recommend Louie. Colin Grant Director of WritersMosaic Royal Literary Fund"
    uniE603 Mixed example 2 - Wing
    Mixing for artist Wing. The final mix of example 2. All examples of before and after have been level-matched. I also recorded the bass for this project. music beat instrumental mix recordingengineer
    paper Hide and Seek - The Colour Of Splash

    In February 2024 Artist Nicholas Fergusen, founder of the color of Splash, invited me again to write another soundtrack for his open-studio exhibition in Berlin. This time I was to compose a 25-minute looping piece that traversed many genres and captured the essences of techno, and electronica, and then made transitions into punk, rock, and finally jazz.
    Nicks’s idea was to include the narration of a poem that went with the theme ‘Hide and Seek’. I incorporated this into the piece introducing it at each transition.
    In the gallery, Nick invited participants to join him in an improvised performance piece. It was spectacular to see how people would move and invent gestures to the work. I found it so rewarding to see the engagement.
    you can find out more by visiting the Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/thecolourofsplash?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
    and visiting the Cololour of Splash website
    https://thecolourofsplash.com/

    you can listen to the 25 minute long collection here:

    Thanks again Nick for this fantastic opportunity!

    paper Perspective - Music Creation for The Colour Of Splash

    In 2023 artist Nicholas Fergusen asked me to collaborate with him to provide music for his exhibition ‘Perspective’ at the Coningsby Gallery in Goodge Street. It was great fun. I created a soundtrack of 11 songs that accompanied each painting relatively. Initially, the idea was to perform the songs on my sampler in the gallery for private viewings which we still did. The following playlist however is recordings of long-form interpretations of each pattern randomized, to some degree, and manipulated by a range of fx I performed.

    Thank you Nick for inviting me to this collaboration!
    you can find out more about Nick and his art collective, The Colour Of Splash on his website.
    https://thecolourofsplash.com

    uniE603 Unmixed example 2
    Mixing for artist Wing. Unmixed example 2. Meaning the before file that I was given to mix. music beat instrumental mix recordingengineer
    uniE603 Unmixed example 3 - Wing
    Mixing for artist Wing. Unmixed example 3. Meaning the before file that I was given to mix. music beat instrumental master mix recordingengineer
    uniE603 Mixed example 3 - Wing
    Mixing for artist Wing. The final mix of example 3. All examples of before and after have been level-matched. I also recorded the bass for this project. music beat instrumental master mix recordingengineer
    uniE603 Mixed example 1 - Wing
    Mixing for artist Wing. The final mix of example 1. All examples of before and after have been level-matched. I also recorded the bass for this project. music beat instrumental master mix recordingengineer
    uniE603 Unmixed example 1 - Wing
    Mixing for artist Wing. Unmixed example 1. Meaning the before file that I was given to mix. music beat master mix recordingengineer