Izzy McNaught is a composer, sound designer, foley artist, songwriter, and singer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Throughout her university career, she discovered her interest in composition and sound foley for film whilst studying various sound design courses. During her final year, she took on two compositional courses: one film composition, and one concept EP which she chose to base on women in Greek mythology. Izzy has been lucky enough to have been offered an internship working with the sound design team on an upcoming feature film which will begin production later this year.
Izzy McNaught
Composer for Film/ Foley Artist/ Sound Designer
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The Trials of Rhea's Daughters
'The Trials of Rhea's Daughters' EP explores the lesser-known stories of female characters from Greek mythology. I set out to reflect their unjust tragedies through my own compositional voice. The stories I’ve chosen are worth exploring because they reveal the untold emotions and complexities of women often reduced to footnotes in classical mythology. These six female protagonists - Penelope, Circe, Demeter and Persephone, Athene, and Medusa - embody real and relatable attributes and emotions that resonate across time: loyalty, jealousy, revenge, familial bond, love, loneliness, fear, courage and the list goes on. I set out to incorporate these qualities as musical themes in my EP, inviting listeners to empathise with the stories creating a space for these women to exist beyond their original restricted mythic functions. These five pieces are accompanied with a five thousand word write-up explaining my processes and decision-making. (Please note that Athene is not available on Soundcloud due to technical difficulties but please contact me if you want to hear it) Follow Soundcloud link for audio files and write-up (link provided above) for context.
Sound Designs
'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows' is a creative project by John Koenig that invents new words to describe subtle, complex, or nameless human emotions. It provides a poetic way to articulate the vague human aches and urges that accumulate themselves in everyday life. I chose six of these words from the dictionary and imagined them into a sound design, through building my own sound library and using this through compositional shaping to convey the particular emotions. please find the audio files through the Soundcloud link, and the write-up linked above.
Izzy McNaught
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