Custom soundscapes and spot effects that create an immersive, imaginative world for your story. Along with visuals, it takes sound to bring a unique world to life.
Professional sound design can help you make the leap from an okay production to an outstanding one.
Thoughtfully designed and often built from many different sonic elements, our carefully crafted audio won’t sound like an mp3 pulled off the web. A storm can include lions roaring, demolition and a falcon’s cry. A person’s soul leaving their body can be layers of human and animal elements traveling around the space. A play about women pilots in the 1940s could feature real WWII propaganda films mixed with planes, period music and women’s voices on ground to air radio.
Work by Matt Cowley
Sound Design
Visually-Descriptive Audio Tour of St. Petersburg’s Murals St Petersburg Arts Alliance, October 2017.
Elsa Schiaparelli Audio Tour sound design and post-production. Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg.
Flying WWII propaganda films mixed with airplanes, ground to air radio transmissions and impressionistic small-town soundscapes. Tampa Repertory Theatre, September-October 2017. Dir. Robin Gordon.
Machinal Mechanical sounds and Expressionist soundscape. University of South Florida, September 2017. Dir. Dora Arreola.
The Other Place Interpretive soundscapes of memory loss. Tampa Repertory Theatre, June 2017. Dir. C. David Frankel. Winner, Best of the Bay Award, Best Sound Design.
Eduardo Chillida Audio Tour sound design and post-production. Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg FL. May 2017.
The Azure Sky in Oz Wizard of Oz-inspired setting. Production of The Heather at the Straz/Shimberg Theatre, April 2017. Dir. Padriac Lillis.
Grounded immersive flight and battle soundscapes. Tampa Repertory Theatre, January 2017. Dir. C. David Frankel.
Frida Kahlo Audio Tour sound design and post-production. Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg FL. December 2016.
The Mathematics of Love time-shifting soundscapes, Southeastern premiere. University of South Florida, September 2016. Dir. Dora Arreola.
Ferran Adria Audio Tour sound design and post-production. Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg FL. October 2016.
Horst P. Horst Audio Tour sound design and post-production. Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg FL. August 2016.
St Pete Synesthesia soundscape for devised dance performance. The Studio@620, March 2016.
Fantastic Ekphrastic soundscapes and spot effects for live performances of poetry, prose and theatre inspired by visual art. Soft Water Studios, St. Petersburg, February 2016.
Inherit The Wind 1940s town. Stageworks Theatre, Tampa, March 2016. Dir. C. David Frankel.
In The Blood Impressionistic urban soundscape including location recordings. Stageworks Theatre, Tampa, February 2016. Dir. Fanni Green.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Modern club soundscape. University of South Florida, February 2016. Guest Director Richard Beecham, UK.
9 Parts of Desire Baghdad soundscapes in surround sound, battle scenes. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance, November 2015. Dir. Andrea Assad.
M.C. Escher Audio Tour Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg FL. 2015.
Pantomime Rural Caribbean soundscapes. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance, October 2015. Dir. Henry Muttoo.
Betrayal Urban locations. Tampa Repertory Theatre, May 2015. Dir. C. David Frankel.
A Tale of Two Cities Period soundscapes and custom destruction, tailored to Movement Design by Jonnie Riordan of Frantic Assembly. Guest Director Eduard Lewis, UK. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance, February 2015.
The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry Continuous surround soundscape of 19th-century rural Oklahoma, custom death knells based on Native mythology. Lark Play Development Center NY’s Rolling World Premiere. Dir. Fanni Green. University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance, April 2014.
A Question of Words Realistic apartment and elevator. Studio@620, March 2014. Dir. Bob Devin Jones.
The Rocks Are Gonna Cry Out 19th-century Oklahoma soundscape for radio. Advance for Lark Play Development Center Rolling World Premiere, April 2013. Dir. Fanni Green.
The Butter Battle Book Detailed soundscape derived from mechanical sounds, radio adaptation of Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Day, broadcast on WMNF Tampa.
The Lorax Detailed soundscape derived from natural sounds, radio adaptation of Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Day, broadcast on WMNF Tampa.
Foley
The Radio Theatre Project Foley performance and sound design for new works of audio theatre performed for a live audience. Studio@620, St. Petersburg FL. 2009-present.
The War of the Worlds Various venues, Tampa Bay, 2014. Dir. James Rayfield.