Who We Are

Dan Mayfield

Founder and Lead Facilitator

Dan is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound artist and author. He founded the School of Noise in 2015 and has delivered workshops and activities to children and families around the world. He has also played violin as a session musician with folk and indie bands including Daniel Johnston, Darren Hayman, Wave Pictures, Allo Darlin’ and Carter USM. Dan studied sound engineering at college and acoustic ecology at university.

Mark Williamson

Facilitator (Yorkshire)

Mark S. Williamson, a musician, sound artist and educator based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. His work is often made in response to his environment, working on location, combining field recordings with electronic and acoustic instrumentation, usually recorded outside, amid the landscape and weather.

Mark has recorded for wiaiwya, Apollolaan, the Dark Outside and his own Forged River Recordings. His work has been reviewed by The Wire, Electronic Sound, Shindig and The Quietus and he was one of the fourteen artists featured in Electronic Sound Magazine’s ‘field recording special’.
markswilliamson.co.uk
forged-river.com

Hector Plimmer

Facilitator (London)

Hector Plimmer is a producer, drummer, DJ and graphic artist. He has steadily built a career bridging scenes and sounds, from beats to jazz, broken beat, house and techno, whilst at the same time honing a distinctive sound, balancing lovingly crafted low-end with precision engineered percussion and a knack for enticing melody and arrangements.
https://www.instagram.com/hectorplimmer/

Cecilia Tyrrell

Facilitator (London)

Cecilia is a sound and new media artist from London. Her focus is built upon the practice of Deep Listening, embracing the physical experience of sound. She uses field recording and soundscape composition to explore how sound and our imagination can intertwine, sharing these experiences through workshops and talks, in the hope of encouraging others to embrace a mindful approach when engaging with our sonic landscapes. Graduating with an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2021, ​​​​​​​Cecilia was a BBC Open Music Trainee for 23/24. ceciliatyrrell.com

Caro C

Facilitator (Greater Manchester)

Described as a “sonic enchantress” (BBC Radio 3) and a “one-woman electronic avalanche” (BBC Introducing), Caro composes, produces and performs creative electronic music using software, hardware, piano, voice, and found sounds (non-musical objects such as oven shelves, lampshades and a ping pong ball). https://carosnatch.com/

Caro C is the instigator and Project Manager of Delia Derbyshire Day, a charity that runs workshops with young people exploring the work of Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001), a trailblazer, whose work helped shape the landscape of British electronic music.

Caro also produces podcasts for Sound on Sound magazine interviewing musicians, producers about their work with sound.

Jeremy Bradfield

Facilitator (North East)

Jeremy Bradfield is a composer, sound designer, and performer based in the north east, specialising in multi-instrumental live music for theatre and passionate about enhancing storytelling through use of musical humour, pathos and tension. He collaborates with other artists and workshop participants in lyric writing, improvisation and exploring group music making as a means to self expression, using music technology to create hybrid instruments.

Matthew Tuckey

Facilitator (North East)

Matthew is a sound designer creating work for the stage and screen and a sound artist working across abstract composition and contemporary art. His design practice is centred on how sound can act as an immersive storytelling device and his sound art compositions encourage an increased engagement with our acoustic environment. Matthew also works as a location sound recordist and sound assistant for film and TV.
www.matthewtuckey.co.uk

Iggy

Hearing Dog in training

The School of Noise is proud to help sponsor Iggy, who is training to become a hearing dog. When we visit schools, we talk about how sound is an important part of our everyday lives. We also explain how some dogs can be trained to help people who are deaf by alerting them to important sounds. Not all deaf people need a hearing dog, but for some people, they can be very helpful and supportive.
https://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/

Gareth Campbell

Facilitator (Bristol)

Gareth Campbell is a STEAM educator and interdisciplinary artist working in Bristol. Since studying Biochemistry with Music Technology, Gareth has been passionate to show young people how the arts and the sciences benefit each other. He is also founder of The MoSAIC (The Museum of Science, the Arts & Interdisciplinary Collaboration – themosaic.uk) The MoSAIC is a virtual museum providing learners of all ages and educators with a place to explore how the arts can help communicate science and to demonstrate the power of cross-curricular learning.

Moyma

Facilitator (Birmingham)

Moyma has over 10 years experience delivering and creating music and visual art projects over the UK and worldwide. This has included music theatre projects, visual art exhibition work, touring as a DJ and writing music that’s been used on film & T.V. He has taught music & visual art to a range of levels and age groups within schools, referral units and prisons nationwide.
moyma.co.uk

Rebecca Glover

Facilitator (London)

Rebecca Glover is a multidisciplinary artist and Foley artist working with sound, sculpture and performance. She creates multisensory experiences that present alternative perspectives for listening and engaging with the world.

Rebecca has worked on a wide range of film and TV projects including The Crown, Call the Midwife, and Peaky Blinders.
rebeccaglover.co.uk

Liam Quinn

Facilitator (Portsmouth)

Liam Quinn is an award-nominated composer, producer, and sound designer with a diverse career spanning TV, trailers, radio, and theatre. Passionate about experimenting with sound, he creates new and exciting sonic worlds that elevate emotions and enhance narratives. Liam collaborates with other creative minds to deliver unified works of art.

His clients include the BBC, ITV, Square Enix, Deep Silver, Ford, the English National Ballet, Jacksons Lane, and more. In addition to composing, Liam performs live electronics with Paraorchestra, having played at prestigious venues such as Glastonbury, WOMAD, The Southbank Centre, and The Bristol Beacon. He also develops workshops to teach these skills to fellow performers. http://liamquinn.com

James Mabbett

Facilitator (Yorkshire)

James Mabbett is a composer, musician, producer and sound artist, living and working in Pennines. James produces large-scale, site-specific sound installations, delivers experimental music workshops, provides scores for award winning films, composes for large ensembles and releases music and tours internationally as Napoleon IIIrd.
napoleoniiird.com
www.instagram.com/napoleoniiird

Oliver Payne

Facilitator (Norfolk)

Oliver is an artist, sound designer and musician interested in improvisation. His work focusses on discovering the unheard and unusual through kinetic sculptures, improvised performance and sound-based mark making. He has created sound and music for a wide range of clients including National Trust, Adidas and H&M.

Oliver is founder of Eastern Ear, YARMONICS festival of sound and new music, and Programme Director at disability arts charity, Musical Keys.

Sue Harding

Facilitator (London)

Sue is a professional Foley artist who has helped with School of Noise on a number of occasions. She has worked on a huge number of films and television shows including Alien, Les Miserables, Sherlock, In Bruges and Peppa Pig. You can hear Sue being interviewed about her work here

Harry May

Facilitator (London)

Harry is a producer and software developer with a background in childcare/early-years education. He has built multiple plugins and software instruments for Ableton Live and developed audio-visual environments on the web and in game engines like Unity. Harry loves to code not only to overcome obstacles in music-making but also to explore new sounds and places. At university he studied sound design and music theory from a socio-political perspective.

Jacob Mayfield

Facilitator (Kent)

Jacob is a producer, DJ and electronic music composer. He holds a BA degree in Creative Music Technology from Anglia Ruskin University and is an Apple certified trainer of music production software Logic Pro X. Jacob writes music under the name Yukka. He has released solo records as well as part of the electronic pop duo Victoria and Jacob who have received critical acclaim from the BBC, NME and Time out.