Biography
Rob Manning is a freelance composer with more than 10 years' experience. He has composed original music for a range of advertising agencies, production companies, and television channels including MTV, Sony Playstation, Hat Trick, Optomen, Fresh One, Endemol, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Five.
His credits include commercials (EON/Powergen, HSBC, Johnnie Walker, Airbus, UTV); comedies (Fonejacker, Rush Hour, Funny Cuts); documentaries (Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape, Heston Blumenthal's Feasts, Amir Khan's Angry Young Men, Extraordinary People); and production music (Boost, Big Screen, MTV, Focus Music, Ricall).
He is currently working on ‘Heston’s Feasts’ series two (six one-hour documentaries for Optomen/C4), 'The Business Inspector' (four-part documentary series for Optomen/C4), and 'The Dancer with Tiny Legs' (one-hour documentary for Nine Lives/TLC USA)
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, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, dulcimer, accordion, piano, lap steel, 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.
3 years 1 months 1 days
Great dynamic range, well scored, and brillant to hear it peformed by professionals. Top banana......
3 years 1 months 1 days
Quite an epic piece with nice dynamics, sounds more western than ethnic but I can hear an unusual mix of instruments.
3 years 1 months 1 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.
1 years 4 months 8 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!
7 months 10 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?
7 months 10 days
I listened to this one sunny morning when there was still snow on the ground and it really matched my view! Great sound, and good orchestration, that builds nicely.
7 months 10 days