Nick Ryan is a multi award winning composer, sound designer, artist and audio specialist, widely recognised as a leading thinker on the future of sound. His extensive and diverse practice, as an audio expert, sound designer and music composer involves working with film, motion graphics, animation, TV drama and documentary, interactive media, technology innovation, instrument making and orchestral ensemble. Among his awards are a BAFTA for Technical Innovation, a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel for sound editing, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound and an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Plymouth University. 

As a practitioner and thinker he has worked with organisations throughout the world such as The MIT Media Lab, The BANFF Centre for the Arts, The Montreal Film Festival, Screen Australia, The European Broadcasting Union, The BFI, BAFTA, TEDx, Aldeburgh Music, The Royal Institution, Tate, BBC Research and Development and UK Government Department of Trade and Industry.

Nick established the studio, based at Somerset House Studios in London, as a high-end music and sound design practice with the core mission of creating experiences that push the boundaries of listening and engage new audiences with audio. It delivers many kinds of work, from award winning feature film scores and sound design, avant-garde sound installations and bespoke museum projects to audio concepts for major products and brands. The studio operates a small and agile internal team and with our large network of highly specialised associates is able to rapdily mobilse delivery of a wide variety of projects from the highly focussed to the large scale.

Mathilda Taylor first joined the team in September 2022 as Community Engagement Producer for The VoiceLine project and has now transitioned to Studio Manager and Producer.

At present, she manages the day to day runnings of the studio and works closely with Nick and external stakeholders to develop ‘The VoiceLine’ a unique sound instrument for voice, sound, music and audio storytelling, in the hopes of taking the installation world-wide.

Before joining the studio, Mathilda worked with a number of charities and organisations, including Live Music Now, Somerset House, East London Dance and We Out Here festival. She was also recently appointed as a Young Trustee for the charity, Sound Connections, which works across the music community to achieve inclusion, equity and social justice.

In her own time, Mathilda curates and produces a live event project called SPOOZIC (Space, Sound & Music) that creates fairly paid opportunities for artists and musicians to perform in unique spaces.

Ultimately, her work is underpinned by a core belief in the power and importance of collectivity, and believes in the potential of music and sound to achieve just that.