Mark Ayres
Sound
Mark Ayres is an electronic musician, composer and audio engineer. Ayres studied music and electronics at Keele University. He also worked as a sound engineer at TV-am between 1982 and 1987. As a television composer, he became known for providing incidental music on the original series of Doctor Who. Ayres's work on broadcast Doctor Who was during Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor, comprising The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric. Ayres was hired after he sent producer John Nathan-Turner a demonstration video containing music he had written to accompany Remembrance of the Daleks. Like most Doctor Who incidental music composers during the 1980s, Ayres created the music electronically, principally using digital synthesisers and samplers. Ayres was also involved in the last days of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, cataloguing and archiving their recordings for future use. As part of the BBC's unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team, Ayres has also done much of the audio restoration work for the later VHS Doctor Who releases, as well as many of the DVD releases, and all of the "Missing Soundtrack" CD releases since 1999.
Known for
Sound33
movieDoctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
2023
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
tvTales of the Tardis
2023
Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: Shada
2017
Sound, Original Music Composer
movieScar Tissue
2013
Music
movieDoctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
Music Consultant
moviePROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
1996
Original Music Composer
moviePROBE: Unnatural Selection
1996
Original Music Composer
moviePROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995
Original Music Composer
movieShakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1994
Original Music Composer, Sound
moviePROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
Original Music Composer
movie30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
Original Music Composer
movieThe Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993
Original Music Composer
movieSophie’s Choice
1992
Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
1989
Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: Ghost Light
1989
Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1988
Original Music Composer
movieWartime
1988
Original Music Composer
movieMyth Runner
1987
Original Music Composer
movieMcDonnell Douglas Information Systems
1986
Original Music Composer
Acting10
movieHorror on the High Rise
2011
Presenter
Crew5
Production2
movieMusical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
2008
Production Consultant