Slice 1

Malcolm Goldie

Malcolm Goldie is a musician, producer and sound designer

Based in London, creating original music and sound for advertising, branding, art and fashion

Lightbulb – Malcolm Goldie

Lightbulb is a series of short films by Stephenson / Bishop, talking to designers and artists about their processes, their inspirations and their workplaces.

Music/Sound: Malcolm Goldie

Film: Stephenson / Bishop

Editing: Gabriel Gane

vimeo.com/stephensonbishop

Wistiki by Starck

Wistiki is a very small digital tracking device designed by Philippe Starck. You attach Wistiki to something to enable you to find it with your smartphone if it becomes lost. I was commissioned to design the audio brand mnemonic – the brief was to embody the simplicity and fun of the product.

Product design (not shown): Philippe Starck
Graphic design: GBH
Product: ShootMedia
Sonic branding/Mnemonic: Malcolm Goldie

See The Sound Hear The Colour

A nightclub for shapes.

Film: Paul Plowman / Anthony Burrill

Music: Malcolm Goldie

Supermarket in C

An experiment in ‘public sound’ – the checkout tills in this supermarket are re-programmed to emit their ‘beeps’ as a random note from within the scale of C Major. Rather than the usual monotone sonic assault, the resulting sound is an evolving atmosphere of electronic ‘music’.

Supermarket: Sainsbury’s, Kingston

Concept / Audio: Malcolm Goldie

Quarter Mile Groove – limited edition artwork

The recording translates the length of its vinyl groove into audio allowing listeners to experience the 1/4 mile length of the spiral as the record is played. Every inch of the needle’s path is audible in the form of a click, each foot as a beat and distances of 10 feet are heard as a blip. These sounds gradually slow as the stylus approaches the center, (the stylus travels less distance in the groove with each revolution of the record). Along the way, the voice of the narrator mentions the horizontal dimensions of particular objects.

Concept: Daniel Eatock
Sound: Malcolm Goldie
Mastering: The Exchange, Camden
Edition of 25

David Bernhardt from EMI Records

The music business…

Thanks: David Bernhardt / WHSmiths

We Are All Maidens (We Are Going To Die)

Wall-flowers, wall-flowers,
Growing up so high,
We are all maidens,
And we are going to die,
She can hop and she can skip,
And she can turn the candle stick.
My, my what a shame,
Turn your face to the wall again.

Music: Malcolm Goldie
Lyrics: Traditional

Released by the ICA Gallery, London,

on the compilation CD ‘Heavy Pencil’.

IdN Magazine short film

For the 100th issue of IdN magazine Zac Ella created this one minute film and asked me to produce an original piece of music to animate to. One day all pop music will sound like this…

Direction / Animation: Zac Ella
Music / Sound: Malcolm Goldie
Counting: Ted Manzie