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Mark Ayres
Mark Ayres is an electronic musician, composer and audio engineer. Ayres studied music and electronics at Keele University. He also worked as a sound engineer at TV-am between 19…
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Mark Ayres is an electronic musician, composer and audio engineer. Ayres studied music and electronics at Keele University. He also worked as a sound engineer at TV-am between 1982 and 1987. As a television composer, he became known for providing incidental music on the original series of Doctor Who. Ayres's work on broadcast Doctor Who was during Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor, comprising The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric. Ayres was hired after he sent producer John Nathan-Turner a demonstration video containing music he had written to accompany Remembrance of the Daleks. Like most Doctor Who incidental music composers during the 1980s, Ayres created the music electronically, principally using digital synthesisers and samplers. Ayres was also involved in the last days of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, cataloguing and archiving their recordings for future use. As part of the BBC's unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team, Ayres has also done much of the audio restoration work for the later VHS Doctor Who releases, as well as many of the DVD releases, and all of the "Missing Soundtrack" CD releases since 1999.
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2024
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Movie Sound Designer
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2024
The Making of The Daleks in Colour
Movie Self
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2023
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
Movie Sound Designer
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2023
Tales of the Tardis
TV show Original Music Composer
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2023
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
Movie Himself
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2021
Return to Skaro
Movie Thanks
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2021
Doctor Who: Risen
Movie Sound
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2021
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Movie Sound
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2020
Doctor Who: Return of the Autons
Movie Sound
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2020
Doctor Who: Home Assistant
Movie Sound
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2019
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie Sound
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2018
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
TV show Sound
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2017
Doctor Who: Shada
Movie Sound
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2016
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Movie Sound
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2015
Thunderbirds 1965: The Stately Homes Robberies
Movie Sound Editor
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2015
Thunderbirds 1965: Introducing Thunderbirds
Movie Sound Editor
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2015
Thunderbirds 1965: The Abominable Snowman
Movie Sound Editor
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2014
Return of the Unknown
Movie Music
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2013
Scar Tissue
Movie Music
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2013
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie Self
- 2011
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2011
Horror on the High Rise
Movie Presenter
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2011
The End of the Line?
Movie Sound
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2011
Come in Number Five
Movie Thanks
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2009
Roger Delgado: The Master
Movie Thanks
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2009
Cybermen
Movie Thanks
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2009
Mounting the Rescue
Movie Thanks
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2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie Music
- 2008
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2007
Doctor Who: Endgame
Movie Self
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2006
Love Off-Air
Movie
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2004
Global Conspiracy?
Movie Sound
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2004
Dæmos Rising
Movie Sound
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2003
The Alchemists of Sound
Movie Self
- 2003
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1999
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Movie Music Consultant
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1998
Doctor Who: The Missing Years
Movie Sound
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1996
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
Movie Original Music Composer
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1996
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Movie Original Music Composer
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1995
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Movie Original Music Composer
