Music Composition & Sound Design
Rowan is an experienced composer and sound artist, recording and performing music for theatre, dance, interdisciplinary performance, art installation, short film and animation. A multi-instrumentalist moving between guitars, keys, synths and sampled electronics, as well as frequently composing for cello and strings, his music seeks cinematic scale and emotional weight. Ambient tracks and scores integrate field recordings and textured sound design, while his towering string compositions and processed guitars draw on post-rock and contemporary film score, experimental electronic and dance music. His debut album We Come Out of the Dark will be released in autumn 2026.
Recent work includes Kindle (Almanac Theatre, 2023), Meadow Wall (Limbic Cinema, 2022), Antigone (Bristol Old Vic Young Company, 2020), How to Start a Fire (Stockroom / FEN / Rising Arts, 2020) and Zugunruhe (Mechanimal, 2018). As artistic co-director of the performance company FEN his projects have included Wulf (2017), PSYCHOPOMP (2018) and 15:44 (2015), and he has made commissions for Bristol M-Shed, We the Curious, Bristol Old Vic Ferment, Illuminate Festival Plymouth and Shoreditch Town Hall Basement. Please us the contact form for commissions and collaborations.
Listening through speakers or headphones is recommended for the sample tracks below.
