Mearl was born Martin Phipps in England on August 1,
1968. He comes from a musical background (he is Benjamin Britten’s godson),
Martin read drama at Manchester University. Fortunately for the acting
profession, he decided to concentrate his energies on writing music. Since
scoring his first TV drama, ‘Eureka Street’ (2002), he has won 2 BAFTAs & 5
Ivor Novello Awards, and gone on to write music for many of the most
interesting series of recent years, including the BBC and Weinstein Company’s
‘War and Peace’, Hugo Blick’s ‘Black Earth Rising’, ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Black
Mirror’. Martin is currently scored season 3 of the Leftbank Pictures/Netflix
series, ‘The Crown’.
Having moved into film, Martin’s credits include the
Weinstein Company’s “Woman In Gold” (scored with Hans Zimmer), starring Ryan
Reynolds and Helen Mirren, Fox Searchlight’s “The Aftermath”, starring Keira
Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Brown and Brighton Rock. In 2014
Martin had 2 feature film scores premiering at the Toronto Film Festival;
Daniel Barber’s “The Keeping Room”, and Morgan Matthew’s “X Plus Y”.
Martin recently set up Mearl (Memorial ElectroAcoustic
Research Lab), a project to facilitate collaborating with other artists &
composers, as well as a platform for developing his own material. Peaky
Blinders was the first soundtrack written under this name, scored with a band
of musicians from Radiohead’s new Laundry Studios in London Fields. Two recent
feature films were also written under this title.
MEARL (aka
Martin Phibbs) (Martin Phipps) [8/1/1968, Islington, London, England,
U.K. - ] – composer, formed Mearl (Memorial
ElectroAcoustic Research Lab) [2015].
The Keeping Room – 2013
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