- Name – Chris Green
- Production Co – Blurred Edge c/o Air Edel
- Email – chris@blurrededge.co.uk
- Telephone – +44 (0)7774 013 144
- Web – www.blurrededge.co.uk/
Chris Green was born in 1984 in Shrewsbury and attended Shrewsbury Sixth Form before going onto to study on the Tonmeister course at the University of Surrey and later as a Masters scholar at The Royal College Of Music. After graduating in 2010 he worked briefly as a session player and composer at Delicious Digital on syncs for clients such as Jaguar, BBC Sport, National Geographic and Oakley, before establishing his credentials as a composer with the 2012 score to AAA computer game Need For Speed: Most Wanted. In 2011 he formed Blurred Edge, which operates under and is represented by the famous Air Edel/Cutting Edge Group. Blurred Edge specialises in electronically manipulating real world sound sources and instruments to create exciting, forward thinking, diverse and evocative music, soundscapes and sound design, mainly in the areas of high profile advertising, computer games and viral projects for clients such as Electronic Arts, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide, Ubisoft, Renault and Warehouse.
I think like everyone in this industry I grew up with a particular thirst and passion for music, and have been very lucky that this passion was cultivated and pushed by people during my young and adult life. I had an incredible jazz piano teacher who not only taught me improvisation, arranging and songwriting, but how to really listen, understand and appreciate all types of styles of music (Big shout out to Mike Penny!). When it came to moving into sync and advertising music particularly, I was given a tremendous opportunity by the guys at Delicious Digital (leading London music house) to intern there (after bugging them for a few months!) while I was still studying at The Royal College of Music. It was here that I cut my teeth, learnt the craft of working in the sync industry and really got inspired by the talent and creativity of the amazing composers there, Sanj Sen, Ed Morris and Nick Hill (Lomax). I feel like internships like this are an invaluable experience in such a practical industry as sync music and I can't wait till I an in the position to give back like this too.
- Air Edel
- Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios
- Publicis
- Man+Hatchet / Unit 9
- MassiveMusic
I still find the sync sector to be a vibrant and exciting area to work in, especially being based in London/Europe where the industry is so creative and forward thinking. That said I do have slight concerns about the overuse of library music that is becoming very common place rather than bespoke scores, and also the way that clients can sometimes use the low pricing of available library music as a budget negotiation tool (ie why should we pay you £1K+ when we can use this AudioNetwork track for £100). I have found though that the easiest way to deal with this worrying trend is to just inform and educate the clients as to what the differences and most of all benefits are of working with a composer on a bespoke score, and so far 100% of the time the final delivery has spoke for itself.
- Warehouse 'Dash For The Sun' - 2013 Advertising Campaign
- Renault TV - 2012 & Ongoing Channel Branding
- UKTV Watch - 2012 & Ongoing Channel Branding
- Need For Speed: Most Wanted - 2012 Video Game
- BBC Sport - 2011 & Ongoing Channel Branding
