Gary’s Hub

Welcome to a slim but central part of the Gary P Hayes web universe. It is primarily being used to house a growing range of original music and videos in the cloud but will also serve as a central place to link out to his many other non-musical sites

GARY’S MUSICAL BACKGROUND

Gary became interested in music at an early age and was playing guitar, keyboards and clarinet by the age of 9.  He was already composing piano pieces and songs by the age 11 and played and wrote in several bands through to his early twenties. He gained a BA in Music & Physics at Manchester University specialising in Composition alongside Quantum Physics. After Uni Gary founded Audio Images, his own music and multimedia production company, 8 track tape based recording studio and one of the first in the UK to use computers and sample based equipment and began creating commercial music for TV, Radio and Advertising. He also co-produced and worked with well known 1980s Manchester bands during this period. He composed many library albums and had works regularly played on BBC TV and National Radio, scores for documentaries and drama, including stage work.

He was asked to design and run a BTec course in Music Recording and Technology at Central Manchester College for two years, before moving to London in the late 80s working at the Guildhall School of Music at the Barbican and then led Studio Music Production & Technology at London’s Fame Academy, the BRIT School – where he mentored and worked with dozens of talented song writers and performers including Imogen Heap and Lynden David Hall for example. Gary also organised, performed and composed for contemporary music festivals in London in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Music.

He then went to work at the BBC for eight years as a new media Senior Development Producer pioneering interactive TV and broadband, but continued scoring and writing music for film, TV and interactive including several at the BBC and then moving to Los Angeles and finally Australia as Multimedia Producer. He has a continued interest in the participatory potential for music creation in a web 2.0 world and as well as specialising in music tech improvisation and film he lectures in music for games, generative composition and future music tech.

His Bandcamp Site featuring over 20 albums where you can listen and buy. The music is a rare hybrid of melodic progressive trance, celtic & world music and cinematic electronica. His versatility lies in his being able to exhibit the sensitivity in combining music of different cultures required for a wide range of film genre and being able to utilise both full orchestral scoring through arrangement and production to cutting edge electronic music realisation and sound design.

WEBSITES

Gary has created or is administering. Here are a few below to get you started:

Main Sites

Educational Sites

Gary Hayes is:

  • CCO of MUVEDesign Alternate, augmented reality and virtual world developer
  • Founding Director of Global Multi Platform Storytelling development initiative StoryLabs
  • AdAge Power150 Media & Marketing Blogger with PersonalizeMedia covering media forms
  • Lecturer & designer of vocational and post graduate courses in Networked Media & Multi Platform Content at AFTRS and MetroScreen
  • Progressive trance, song and film composer currently at Korkyt.net but most now here
  • Founder and director for 5 years of the recent Laboratory for Advanced Media Production LAMP@AFTRS LAMP
  • Currently writing a book “Networked Media Design: Transmedia Production” published late 2010
  • Photographer featured in many books – recently book – Focus on Australia & very popular flickr account

LAMP 2005-10 was an initiative to invigorate the Australian media industry and nurture people and projects across multi-platform, social networks, virtual worlds, games, mobile and mixed reality. It has a range of blogs and its own Wikipedia cited wiki.

MUVEDesign create virtual world presences, design alternate reality games and augmented reality apps and Gary is responsible for major brand deployments such as Telstra BigPond, ABC, Tourism Victoria, Deakin University and other educational spaces such as AFTRS and Thursday’s Fictions. Previously head of virtual worlds at The Project Factory from 06-08 MUVED also develop Mixed Reality Formats especially TV and Virtual Hybrid experiences.

Gary was previously Senior Development Producer & Manager at BBC New Media from 1995-04 creating many of the interactive and advanced TV firsts as well as specialising in personal and participatory TV. Now EP of Product Development at ABC TV Multiplatform.

Selection of recent online press and other sites linking to Gary’s main blogs

Selection of wikipedia and wiki cited blog based articles (up to April 07). E.g.:

2 Comments

  1. Hello, Gary.
    This is Gahee from Korea. I’m working for KISA, which is Korea Internet & Security Agency.

    I would like to ask you something about formatting and your paper ; how to write a transmedia production bible.

    Please contact me as soon as possible!

    Gahee Kim
    KISA,
    E : mnemonicgee@gmail.com

    Reply

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