Over the years I have created or generated a number of videos or audio files distributed across many online locations mainly
My blog https://gravityisahat.co.uk/
My academic website https://chrisnewell.gravityisahat.co.uk/
My collected creative writing website https://fleeting.gravityisahat.co.uk/
This will soon be superseded by a downloadable pdf of my complete creative writing.
My site focused on The Red Telephone Box That Talks A Bit Like Me https://k6.gravityisahat.co.uk/
The Creative Speech Technology (CreST) Network. A research network I created with my PhD Supervisor Alistair Edwards in 2011. https://crest.gravityisahat.co.uk/index.php
The Last 11 years
The Red Telephone Box That Talks A Bit Like Me – the first three videos all develop themes around my telephone box installation http://k6.gravityisahat.co.uk/
Antisanta
Ash
Sylvia – still cannot make my mind up on a title. Made with my next door neighbour. It explores something I care about just not sure what.
My My – playing at making a music video
Unuseless Visor – The unuseless series made https://unuseless.gravityisahat.co.uk/ to the 10 tenets of Chindogu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu. If you don’t know what that is Google it, it’s very cool.
Unuseless Tie
Talking Toys – music video I made with Lisa. An excellent collaboration despite a lot of conflicting views.
Previous decades
Normans Leap – I submitted this for a film production module I did for my masters at Huddersfield University around 1999. Interesting to see the same obsessions. Norman is just a psychopathic Tuffin.
Audio only
Various audio sequences featuring synthetic speech.
Opera
All bar one of the operas I directed for Mid Wales Opera (MWO) were videoed with a camera at the back of the venue. The quality is not great but there are some nice moments. You can find them all on my YouTube channel opera playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH69VQqIQVW0OOvcZMLvwjTOw0vG-p1jT
The full credits for all the operas shown are here
Dirty Tricks (audio only) – a terrible flop at the time that cost me my sanity and nearly my house. In retrospect it was the best thing I ever did.
Preview performance we did to get funding. Courtesy of Paul Barker.
Complete audio recoding. Courtesy of Paul Barker.
La Pazzia Senile – an English amateur madrigal group perform Banchieri’s opera. This went down a storm at the South Bank. We filmed a dress rehearsal in some hall or other. Terrible quality but still quite funny at times.
More opera stills
Operas I directed included here are The Magic Flute, 2 productions, The Tales of Hoffman, Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus, The Barber of Seville and Cenerentola but 95% of my opera work is completely undocumented (thank goodness as so much was terrible). We have clippings/newspaper reviews but I have no intention of uploading those even the enthusiastic ones. I would like to credit the designers but sadly we are out of touch and I can only recall first names. My most intense collaborations on many projects were with Paul Barker composer https://paulalanbarker.net/about/, Stephen Chance actor/writer https://www.mandy.com/u/stephen-chance/, and for the Mid Wales Opera company https://www.midwalesopera.co.uk/about/mwo-productions-since-1989/ in particular Keith Darlington conductor and Bob Wallbank production manager/lighting designer. My work as assistant director was principally at Glyndebourne Festival Opera https://www.glyndebourne.com/ (the DVD titles are Glyndebourne productions) and The National Theatre https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/home/. I also worked on semi staged performances for the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican including the subsequent CD recording of Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream with Sir Colin Davis included here.
Screen grabs from the YouTube videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH69VQqIQVW0OOvcZMLvwjTOw0vG-p1jT
Rigoletto
La Cenerentola
The Magic Flute
Die Fledermaus
The Tales of Hoffman
