Hello, I’m Hamish Brown. I’m a music producer, media composer and educator. I work with directors, musicians and agencies to help them get the best results from their project. I’ve had work placed everywhere from Hollywood films, cinema ads and installations to dance, theatre and radio. I also record/mix/master records with artists and provide location sound and sound design for film, radio and podcasts. I work with clients including NPR, PRX, BBC, The Times, Pacific Content, National Galleries, National Theatre, Double Take Projections. Get in touch.
Photography: Daniel Dabrowski
I teach courses for The National Union of Journalists, EIS, Equity (#JoinAUnion) and provide training for private clients. Next dates: Jan/Feb 2025 in WordPress and Podcasting.
Production Reel 2025
I can help you finish your music. Get in touch and send me your recordings/stems. Recent highlights below. More on the Production page.
Recent Work
Music/sound design: Colour and Light (2025)
A 3D projection mapping film installation using the iconic York Minster as a canvas and experienced by an audience of 100,000+. Thanks to the ace visual team at Double Take Projections and the many session musicians who feature on the soundtrack.
Album mixing+mastering: John Robertson – Our Room is a Big World (2025)
Out now on Biphonic. Stream via Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music and Bandcamp.
Written and recorded by John Robertson. Drums: Stu Brown. Art: Daniel Warren. Mixing, mastering, additional production and engineering by me.
Album: Hamish Brown – Barsini Red (2024)
New music from me. Featuring Stu Brown (drums), Norman Willmore (sax), Caroline Clarke (vocals) and tracks recorded with string ensemble, led by Pete Harvey. Art: Daniel Warren. Out now on Biphonic. “Absolutely wonderful music” – Rebecca Vasmant, BBC Radio 3.
Music/sound design: Castle of Light (2019-2024)
2024 marks the fifth year of this unique and extraordinary event which transforms the iconic Edinburgh Castle by night into a world of colour via powerful 3D projection mapping, experienced by an audience of 100,000+. As part of a great team of animators and visual artists, I oversee the music and sound, contributing original music, sound design and mix/mastering to the 15+ films and installations each year. Full performer credits here. Event website: castleoflight.scot.
New track: Let’s Go to Bed (2023)
New track with Andrew Eaton-Lewis – a cover of Let’s Go To Bed for Pictures of You: A compilation of covers of songs by The Cure. All funds raised go to mental health charity MIND. £5000+ raised to date.
Location recording/mix: Graham Fagen – A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer (2023)
Delighted to have contributed location recording and sound mix to A Portrait of Sir Geoff Palmer, a 20-minute film by Graham Fagen. On display Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Dir: Andy McGregor. Music: Ghetto Priest / Adrian Sherwood.
New track: Swimmer One – Twenty Years Too Soon, Twenty Years Too Late (2023)
I was in the band Swimmer One 2003-2013. We made two albums, several single/remixes, seven films and two theatre shows. In 2023, we marked 20 years since we started (and 10 since we stopped) by remixing/remastering our back catalogue of 29 songs and making a new one to round it up to 30. Listen now via Spotify, Apple music etc (Keep those hard drives backed up.)
Film music/sound design: Jacqueline Donachie – Imperial (2022)
Original music/location recording/sound mix for 12-minute film by artist Jacqueline Donachie, commissioned by Art in Manufacturing for the National Festival of Making 2022. The film explores the history of the mill buildings in the north of England, from their previous and present day industrial use, to their use as venues for parties during the early 90s house music and rave scene. Screened at Festival opening event and Prism Contemporary.
Film soundtrack: Jacqueline Donachie – Beautiful Sunday (2021)
Sound design/music for film Beautiful Sunday, a 12min film and sculptural installation by artist Jacqueline Donachie, commissioned for the Folkestone Triennial and that celebrates the dance floors of the town by marking out their size one-to-one on a huge stage set in the middle of a derelict gasworks site. Also screened at SWG3, Glasgow at the launch of a new energy capture technology in a club venue that converts body heat from dancers into electricity (!) used to cool and heat the building.
Film music/sound design: Sir Walter Scott 250 (2021)
Sound design for 3D projection mapping film at Smailholm Tower to mark Sir Walter Scott’s 250th anniversary. Fiddle tune by Morag Currie. Commissioned by The Abbotsford Trust.
For older work, see Projects.
Client list
- BBC
- NPR
- PRX
- NHS
- The Times and Sunday Times
- National Galleries
- National Theatre