Tic Ashfield
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Tic Ashfield is a BAFTA Cymru award winning composer and sound designer living in South Wales who studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Tic earned a 1st class degree in creative music technology in 2013 before gaining a masters degree with distinction in composition in 2016 supported by the Prince of Wales scholarship.
Tic is a creative team member at John Hardy Music Collective where she co-composed the music for projects such as Cleddau | The One That Got Away, The Light In The Hall | Y Golau, Hinterland | Y Gwyll, Hidden | Craith and Tree On A Hill | Pren Ar Y Bryn.
As a composer and sound designer Tic focuses on using a combination of found sound manipulation and sampling, synthesis and instrumental writing to create bespoke sound worlds, often within collaborative settings. Tic is a singer and plays acoustic and electric guitar, bass, clarinet and occasional ukulele, often incorporating these into their music.
She first collaborated creatively with John Hardy on the Cultural Olympiad: Adain Avion in 2012, and joined the John Hardy Music team later that year. Since then she has led a number of projects with John Hardy Music including the production {150} by National Theatre Wales. Tic is a music educator and workshop leader and is a visionary creator of new sound worlds for theatre, dance, film, animation and community art. Along with John and Benjie, Tic founded the distinctive and iconic sound world that is now known in 150 countries - the world of Hinterland / Y Gwyll.
Theatre & Dance work includes: A Tidy Boy (Grand Ambition), Sian De Bergerac (Red Oak Theatre), Hot Chicks (Sherman Theatre, Grand Ambition), Housemates (Sherman Theatre, Hijinx Theatre), Iphigenia yn Sblot (Sherman Theatre), Es & Flo (Wales Millennium Centre, Kiln Theatre), Right Where We Left Us (Chippy Lane Productions), The Boy With Two Hearts (Wales Millennium Centre, National Theatre), Pryd Mae’r Haf? (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), A Number, All But Gone, The Awkward Years, American Nightmare, The Story, Hela (The Other Room), The Gathering, {150}, The Tide Whisperer, For As Long As The Heart Beats, Storm III (National Theatre Wales), On Bear Ridge (National Theatre Wales & The Royal Court), Dear To Me | Annwyl i mi (National Dance Company Wales), Blue (Chippy Lane Productions).
Film and television work includes: The One That Got Away | Cleddau Series 2 (BlackLight TV | S4C), The Read: 39 Steps (Rural Studios | BBC4), STAD Series 2 (Triongl | S4C), The Read: Persuasion (Rural Studios | BBC4, Beyond (Triongl | Short Film | BBC3), Y Golau: Dwr (Triongl | S4C), The Read: Wuthering Heights (Rural Studios | BBC4), The One That Got Away | Cleddau (Cymru Creadigol Creative Wales | BBC/S4C), The Read: Remains of The Day (Rural Studios | BBC4), Tree On A Hill (Fiction Factory | BBC/S4C), The Light In The Hall (Channel 4 Television | Triongl), Skinny Fat (Mathew David | Short Film), STAD Series 1 (Triongl | S4C), Bregus (S4C), Hel Y Mynydd (S4C), Pili Pala (Triongl | S4C), Hidden | Craith (BBC Cymru Wales | S4C/BBC), Hinterland | Y Gwyll (BBC Wales | S4C/BBC), Galesa (Joio), Andrew Marr: Great Scots (BBC2), The Girl In The Diary (S4C).