Profile Image

Lin Sangster

Composer, Sound Designer

Great Britain , London
linsangster@yahoo.com

Visits in the last week

13

Total of visits

1158

Current Work Details

What I do

composer/ sound designer/ songwriter/musician

Where I work

I am an individual working from home

Technical Skills

pro tools, reason, final cut, cubase, photoshop and multi-instrumentalist

Resources / Expertise

home studio with drum kit synths guitars bass and a vast array of percussive instruments...

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

2001-2003

London college of Printing, HND Sound design

2003-2004

Middlesex University,
Sonic Arts (composing for film and animation), BA hons

1999-2001

South Thames London,
music technology, Nat cert

My Social Web

Shooters Q&A

Films I wish I had made

Fargo, Kes, Whatever happened to Baby Jane, Taxi Driver, Morvern Cellar, Harold and Maude, Wings of Desire, The Red Balloon, My Own Private Idaho , The Conversation,The Lives of Others

I cried watching

To Kill A Mocking Bird, Mysterious Skin, Sweet Sixteen, Wonder Boys, Boys Dont Cry.

I left the cinema during

Angel Heart

Directors I love

Coen Brothers,Orson Welles,Wes Anderson, Alison Anders Lynne Ramsay,Jacques Tati,Sergio Leone,Fritz Lang, Kimberly Peirce, Gus Van Sant The Brothers Quay, Lotte Reiniger Spike Jonze

Actors I admire

Bette Davis, Anne Bankroft, Julie Christie, Robert Deniro, Samantha Morton, Montgomery Clift, Philip Seymour Hoffman,

My desert island discs

Forever Changes- Love, Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division, Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Tim Buckley, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, The Slits, The Carpenters, Bessie Smith, Dusty Springfield, Sonic Youth, Nick Drake

Books I have given my friends

After Delores- Sarah Shulman, The Long Firm- Jake Arnott,A Partial Indulgence- Stephanie Theobald, Another county- James Balwin, Englands dreaming- Jon Savage

My death row meal

A Veggie Curry

The best thing I own

pair of ears and a brain all my own work!!

More about me

I like photography, comics, playing drums, football, animation, charity shops, rummaging, walking, songs with whistling on, old instructional records and cassettes, lo-fi everything, currently trying my hand at screenwriting

My Work & Credits

  • play

    show reel

    My role: Composer

    Format
    DVCam/Mini-DV
  • play

    homemovie decomposed

    My role: Composer

    Format
    Super8
    Production company
    anorak films
    Category
    Short
  • play

    animations

    My role: Composer

    Format
    Hand Drawn Animation
    Category
    Animation
  • play

    warburtons ad

    My role: Composer

  • play

    vw ad

    My role: Composer

    Format
    DVCam/Mini-DV
    Category
    Commercial
  • play

    film four ident

    My role: Composer

  • play

    Break My Fall

    My role: Jamie

    Format
    Super16
    Production company
    Break My Films LTD
    Category
    Feature
  • play

    Unhappy Birthday

    My role: Composer

    Category
    Feature Trailer