Biography
Rob Manning has been working in music for more than 10 years. He has composed original music for a range of production companies and television channels including BBC, Hat Trick, Optomen, Fresh One, Endemol, Blast! Films, MTV, Sony Playstation, ITV, and Channel 4.
His credits include documentaries (Louis Theroux, Dispatches, Gordon’s Great Escape, Heston Blumenthal's Feasts, Cutting Edge); commercials (EON/Powergen, HSBC, Johnnie Walker, Airbus, UTV); comedies (Fonejacker, Rush Hour, Funny Cuts); and production music (Universal, Lift Music, Big Screen, Boost, MTV, Focus, Ricall).
Rob graduated from Brunel University in 1996 with a distinction in Professional Music, specialising in guitar. He has a studio in North London with a valve desk, a diverse collection of instruments (including guitars, piano, cello, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, bass, dulcimer, accordion, lap steel, dobro, sitar and a nose flute) alongside a large library of virtual instruments.
Effective idea, I really liked the chord change that develops nicely from the initial theme as well as the slow introduction of the sweeping strings. The piano could have possibly benefited from a softer performance but I thought it accurately matches the context.
4 years 7 months 6 days
Great dynamic range, well scored, and brillant to hear it peformed by professionals. Top banana......
4 years 7 months 6 days
Really liked it, simple but well chosen instruments, it developed well and achieved the brief me thinks. Nice.
4 years 7 months 6 days
Quite an epic piece with nice dynamics, sounds more western than ethnic but I can hear an unusual mix of instruments.
4 years 7 months 6 days
It has a great feel good factor this piece, the vocals work really well and I can imagine that this rounded off the theatre production nicely.
2 years 10 months 14 days
I am big fan of this kind of music, I love the textures and the gentle sprinkling of melody here and there. It has a good sense of anticipation, I can imagine it worked well with the pictures and that you had a lot of fun writing for the series, good work!
2 years 1 months 16 days
This is a lovely lingering piece that has a great use of samples and atmos sounds, it reminded me a little bit of Blade Runner, what was it written for?
2 years 1 months 16 days
This is a lovely soft piece that gently develops, I can imagine it fitted the brief very well, beautiful cello too!
10 months 23 days