Biography
Among the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s most prolific and inventive composers, John Baker helped define the audio from the BBC along with his styles and sound files. Born on Oct 12, 1937, Baker was raised within the East End of London and shown musical skill quickly, view reading and playing the piano skillfully while still in his early teenagers. On the Royal Academy of Music, he researched piano and structure, learning to be a GRSM (Graduate from the Royal College of Music) and LRAM (Licentiate from the Royal Academy of Music). After graduation, Baker became a member of the BBC in 1960, starting as a studio room manager and audio mixer, focusing on radio applications ranging from the news headlines to music displays to broadcasts of has. Three years afterwards, he used in the Radiophonic Workshop, where he crafted exclusive music and sound files using careful tape editing and enhancing and manipulation and recordings of everyday noises such as tugging the cork away from a bottle. At exactly the same time, Baker was also offering music for advertisements and executing with jazz groupings, which jazz background produced his work being among the most rhythmically interesting Radiophonic Workshop result. Just how he combined digital music with live shows also established his work aside. However, his active working plan sparked a taking in problem and melancholy that eventually resulted in his dismissal through the BBC in 1974, and he didn’t compose or perform in public areas once again. After his mother’s loss of life, Baker’s wellness worsened, and he shifted along with Daphne Walker, a vintage acquaintance. They shifted from London towards the Isle of Guy, where Baker contracted cirrhosis from the liver, also to the Isle of Wight, where he created liver cancers in 1996; he passed away from this on Feb 7, 1997. In 2008, the U.K. reissue label Trunk Information released two choices of function from his period on the Radiophonic Workshop.
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Producer
Producer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Woman in Deep | 2016 | Short producer | |
Frank & Lola | 2016 | producer | |
Dark Night | 2016 | executive producer | |
Coke White, Starlight | 2015 | Short producer | |
On Women Who Validate Themselves Through Sex | 2014 | Short producer | |
Wild Canaries | 2014 | co-producer | |
Memphis | 2013/I | producer | |
Wwjd | 2011 | Short producer | |
Dragonslayer | 2011 | Documentary producer | |
The Boundary | 2008 | Short producer |
Music Department
Music Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Dragonslayer | 2011 | Documentary music supervisor |
Thanks
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Pauline Alone | 2014 | Short special thanks |
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