Pendle Poucher is a Brighton based composer, sound designer and lover of funny noises.

He has written, produced and performed soundtracks for every major UK TV station and many more all over the world. He has devised large scale public art projects and written chart-topping dance music, occasionally his work has won awards.

Pendle used to play guitar in Rough Trade signed, art-pop combo Butterfly Child , but these days he releases his own music as alter-ego idmonster. Recently he attempted to storm the UK Christmas charts by producing/playing/arranging a record made with percussionists Dame Evelyne Glennie and Shovell ( M People ) plus some bees, ducks, goats, and various other household objects.

March -May 2012 Composing and sound designing on a huge multi channel scale for DreamThinkSpeaks' new show The Rest is Silence. Based on Hamlet this is pretty hard to catagorise, its like theatre but with lots of film and a totally immersive 24 channel soundtrack.


I'm also working on sound and music with artist Lindsay Seers for her new Artangel commission which will open at a secret location somewhere in London later this year/


New Idmonster album on the way too !


Other recent work..

Oct 2011- I'm currently creating sound installations in several rooms of the National Trust's Averbury Manor which is nestled inside an ancient stone circle in deepest Wiltshire. I'm working as part of a team who are refurbishing the manor for BBC documentary series To The Manor ReBorn.
No points for guessing who the presenter is.......yup Penelope Keith.

Sept 2011-Spent most of the summer working with Rob Lane ( Merlin, John Adams ) co-writing the soundtrack of Hidden, a BBC 4 part dark thriller starring craggy grump Philip Glenister and lovely Thekla Reuten.

A new series of Location Location etc...
DreamThinkSpeak's award winning promanade theatre piece Before I Sleep.moves to Amsterdam for a 3 week run following its extended run at last years Brighon festival.
More sound and music for artist Lindsay Seer's ( now winner of of Peter Hamlyn Award ) shows in Tasmania, Toronto, The Baltic in Gateshead , and Rugby, UK.
Ad music for Hewlett Packard printers in American and an unpronouncable oil company in Japan.
Working with Derek Jarman prize winning artist Lindsay Seerson surround sound design and music for her amazing film installations. Exhibited in National Gallery of Denmark, Austria and Liverpool, soon to be shown on Channel 4 in the UK.
Very jolly and slightly military sounding music commissioned for new property concept TV show Homes for the Brave. coming soon to UKTV.
A month writhing through the decaying cabling of a a disused Art Deco department store to create sound installations and surround soundtrack for DreamThinkSpeak's amazing Brighton Festival show Before I Sleep.
BEAT CREATURES: Dubstep and beyond. Library album for Artful Music Library.
ENGLISH ECCENTRICS: Library album for Artful Music Library.

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