MARTYN WARE

  Soundscape Designer, Illustrious Company,   Future of Sound, & Sonic ID

After leaving school, Martyn Ware worked in computers for three years. In 1978, he formed the band The Human League. He formed the music production company and label British Electric Foundation in 1980 and formed Heaven 17 the same year.

Ware has written, performed and produced two Human League, two BEF and nine Heaven 17 albums. As record producer and artist, Ware has been featured on recordings totaling over 50M sales worldwide – producing Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond and Mavis Staples, etc.

He founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2001 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique threedimensional sound technology in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world. Clients include: BP, The British Council, The Science Museum, The Royal Ballet, Amnesty International, The V&A Museum, Mute Records, BBC TV, the Royal Observatory Greenwich, BAFTA , Museum Of London, and Tate Britain.

Ware produces and presents a series of events entitled ‘Future Of Sound’ (14 so far) around the world and created sonic architectural works at the British Pavilion at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006.

Ware is a Visiting Professor at the University of London, a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a patron of Arts & Business, and a member of the LA-based international think-tank group Matter. He also lectures extensively on music production, technology, at universities and colleges across the world and runs the world-leading soundbranding agency Sonic-ID.