Buy It Sell It Bank It, the 25 x 45min property entertainment series, is showing weekdays on BBC1 at 11am. Gareth was commissioned to write the title and underscore music earlier this year by Reef TV

November 08

Time to catch up again!

For the second time this year, Gareth has been commisioned by Hamma & Glamma to compose the music for a food entertainment series. This time it's the 10 x 30 min primetime series, Chefs In The City, for UKTV.

The Un-Gone has now won 7 awards at various festivals around the world. Most notably it took away the top prizes for best short film and best subject at the CyBorg Film Festival in Anghiari, Italy.

Work has just been completed composing the music for Gareth's second library project, entitled Trailers, for Reliable Source Music.

The Beeps has now been finished and delivered - all 65 epiodes - that's around 650 minutes of music scored to animation in just over a year.

Music for the Cadbury Twisted TV advertising campaign was written and produced - see it here on youtube.

The War and Peace library album has now been released by Reliable Source Music, featuring orchestral music composed by Gareth Cousins. It may be auditioned here.

Little Didi (Ice Candy) is now available on iTunes as a download for iPods and mobile phones.

June 2008

Gareth has been commissioned to compose the music for Behind Closed Doors, a 7 x 60 min architecture series, produced by Reef TV for broadcast on Five.

May 2008

Rather a lot of catching up to do, as things have been very busy!

The Beeps are back for a new series of 13 episodes (on top of the original 52, which were finished in a mad flurry just before Christmas).

Gareth has also been working closely with the show's producers, Impossible TV developing the music for several new shows. Read about some of them here.

The music has just finished being composed for two TV series:

Buy It Sell It Bank It (Reef TV) is a 25 x 45 min property series for BBC daytime.

The New British Kitchen (Hamma & Glamma) is a cookery series for UKTV.

For the first time, Gareth's music is now available from a production music library. 8 new original orchestral pieces have been composed for a soon to be released library album entitled War And Peace for Reliable Source Music (RSM).

Little Didi (Ice Candy) is a children's animated series that is only available on the Internet. It can be seen here. Gareth wrote the theme tune.

In February, GCMP branched out into computer game music, with the music for Pretty Good Games' Project 7 being written.

September 2007

GCMP Studio has now been upgraded to the latest state of the art Pro Tools HD audio software and hardware, including a huge number of software effects and processors. 5.1 surround mixing can now be handled as standard, via a Control 24 mixing console and Genelec speakers.

August 2007

Gareth has been working on a new crossover violin album with acclaimed violinist, Vasko Vassilev.

July 2007

You're Signed!

GCMP has written and produced an urban Hip Hop track for Chicago-based ad firm Draft FCB, to be used in Motorola's latest campaign.

June 2007

Gareth has been busy writing 80's style synthesiser pop music for a project for Aspect TV.

May 2007

Skibbly TV have comissioned Gareth to write new original music for a project provisionally titled Camper Van Crisis 2, a follow on to the then previous "Crisis" series of programmes which have had very successful runs recently on Discovery.

Gareth also scored 6x 11 minute episodes of The Beeps this month.

April 2007

The Un-Gone has won a couple of awards over the past few months. This month it was announced that The Un-Gone won the Directors Choice Award at the Hollywood DV & HD Film Festival. It was judged the best film from 122 films that screened including shorts and features of all genres. The film will also be screened at the 6th London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, 2 - 6 May 2007, Apollo West End where it has been nominated for the Best Short film and Audience awards.

March 2007

The Beeps launched this month on Five's Milkshake strand. The series is showing at 7.20am on weekdays. Writing work continues on this 52 part animated series.

February 2007

Free Spirit Film and TV have returned to commission Gareth to write the music for another Tommy Walsh series. Tommy's Eco House will be shown on Discovery.

January 2007

Gareth has been commissioned by At It Productions to compose the music for the rebranding of the NTL/Telewest Cable channel to Virgin Media .

Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young started broadcasting on 16th Jan on BBC2 at 8pm. The first show attracted an audience of 3 million. It runs for 6 weeks and repeats on Fridays at 7pm.

What I'd Really Like To Do is broadcasting this month on BBC1 on weekdays at 9.15 am.

Camper Van Crisis and Beetle Crisis are broadcasting on Discovery Real Time on Wednesdays at 8pm and 8.30pm respectively and repeating at various times in the week.

December 2006

Work continues on the 52 Part children's animated series, The Beeps, plus development on a number of other series, also for Impossible Television.

November 2006

The Un-Gone has been nominated for a Melies d’Or at Scienceplusfiction 2006 and will screen at the festival in Trieste, Italy in November.

October 2006

Aspect TV have returned with their third commission of the year, needing a quick turn around on the Title and incidental music for What I Would Really Like To Do. The factual entertainment show, presented by Adrian Chiles, is due to broadcast on BBC1 from January 07.

The BBC have commissioned Gareth to compose the music for their new production, Don't Die Young. The series will air on BBC2, and is presented by Alice Roberts.

Sept 2006

Gareth received a Golden Reel nomination from the MPSE this month for his work on Batman Begins.

Work has been continuing on the 52-part children's animated series, The Beeps, with 4 episodes being scored this month

Aug 2006

The Grape Escape is given a big launch this week (16th August) on Discovery Real Time - it will be shown on Saturdays at 1pm and Wednesdays at 10pm. It can also be seen on Discovery's Living and Travel channel. More info at Reef TV.

Other programs currently showing include Oil, Sweat & Rigs on Discovery, and Camper van Crisis on Discovery RT.

The Un-Gone will be showing at the LA Shorts Film Festival at 1pm on 12th September.

Smooth Movers premiered on Discovery Home and Health on 7th August, and can be seen weekdays every day at 8pm.

June 2006

Work commences this month on the huge Impossible TV project, The Beeps. This is a 52 part animated kids series, which Gareth has written the titles song for and will be composing the underscore for each 11 minute episode.

May 2006

The lovely folk at Aspect TV returned for their second commission of the year, Welsh Journeys, due to be shown later this year on BBC Wales.

April 2006

Oil,Sweat and Rigs will be showing on Discovery Channel Tuesdays at 10pm from 2 May.

Work was completed on a short advertising project for Hanrahan Media.

Camper Van Crisis and Smooth Movers were completed.

March 2006

Dublane A Decade On broadcasts on Five at 8pm March 8th. More information here.

February 2006

This month Gareth has been busy writing the music for several TV series:

Dublane A Decade On is a very moving account of the Dunblane school tragedy by some of the people involved and closely affected. It has been produced by Hanrahan Media for Five.

Aspect TV have commissioned Gareth to write the music for a 15-part series for Discovery, Smooth Movers.

Also on Discovery is Uncorked, a 10-part series produced by Reef TV.

January 2006

January started with a commission from Mentorn to compose the music for Oil, Sweat & Rigs - a 10 part series for Discovery USA documenting the rebuilding of the Oil Industry in the Mexican Gulf following the recent hurricanes.

Gareth also wrote the music for Simon Bovey's excellent short sci-fi film, The Un-Gone , produced by Tinder Films for Screen West Midlands/The UK Film Council.

Skibbly.tv returned to commission the music for their new 5-part series for Discovery, Camper Van Crisis.

Later this year, Gareth will be composing the music for Impossible TV's new animated children's series, The Beeps, having won the commission after writing the signature song for the series. The 52 episide series will be broadcast on Five.

July - December 2005

For 6 months Gareth has been working at the new Dinemec Studio complex in Geneva recording what will be a major new album from a new singer-songwriter. He co-wrote one of the songs, and also produced, arranged, programmed and mixed the album. The mixing was completed at the new Neve room at Dinemec Studios.

June 2005

This month Gareth has been busy composing the music for the new Tommy Walsh show, Ultimate Workshop for Free Spirit Film and TV, due to be broadcast on Discovery.

May 2005

Gareth has written the music for the first ever Sudoku game show, ‘Vorderman’s Su Doku Live’. This live national TV event takes place on 1st July 2005, hosted by Carol Vorderman and is based on the logic puzzle that has swept the nation. The show is being made by Hanrahan Media for broadcast on Sky One.

Watch out for the new Weetabix advert featuring an animated scarecrow. Gareth recorded and mixed the 37 piece orchestra used by composer Steve Price for this advert. Read more about the recording at the London Metropolitan Orchestra's website here.

April 2005

Construction work has now begun on the new Dinemec Studios in Geneva, which Gareth is consulting on. Read more at the AMS Neve Website.

Gareth has written the title music for Kit Car Crisis, due to be broadcast on Discovery Real Time. The music was written, mixed and approved in one day in order to beat a deadline for the production company, Skibbly.tv.

Renovation Creation has been renamed Conversion, and is now broadcasting on Thursdays at 9pm on Discovery Home and Leisure.

March 2005

Throughout most of this month, Gareth was at George Martin's Air Studios working on the new Batman film Batman Begins for Warner Bros, working closely with composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard and music editor Steve Price.

February 2005

This month saw Gareth back at Dinemec Studios in Geneva working with Phil Collins on Tarzan 2, and preliminary work with him on a remix project planned for later in the year.

Gareth also renewed an acquaintance by remixing "Victory" by Bond in 5.1 surround for use in the new Sony feature film XXX: State Of The Union starring Ice Cube and Samuel L Jackson. Gareth originally worked with Bond as producer on their multi million selling album Born.

January 2005

Gareth has just finished composing the music for the ITV/Hanrahan Media documentary "Going To Work Naked". Conspiracies On Trial completed.

December 2004

The past 6 months have been busy for Gareth;

He is currently composing the music for the 5-part Discovery series "Conspiracies On Trial" for Outline Productions.

During November, Gareth worked with Phil Collins on the Tarzan 2 score for Disney. He also co-wrote (with Phil Collins) the score for Arktos, the documentary film of Mike Horn's 2 year solo trip around the arctic circle. The film is produced by Raphael Blanc for Artemis Films.

In July Gareth was retained as consultant by Paul Sutin for the new Dinemec Recording Studio complex being built in Geneva. More news on this state of the art facility soon.

June 2004

Gareth has composed the music for Discovery Channel's new series "Renovation Creation", produced by Hanrahan Media.

Gareth was flown to Lisbon in early June to record and mix Sting's Rock In Rio (in Lisbon) Concert for live TV and radio broadcast.

March -April 2004

Gareth has recently renewed his aquaintance with 20th Century Fox whilst work on the score to the Will Smith film "I, Robot".

January 2004

Work has been continuing on the Sara Lowes debut album.

December 2003

Gareth has been writing, producing and arranging songs for Phil Collins’ Little Dreams project – a foundation setup to give opportunities to new talent. The first Little Dreams album has been released on EMI's Capitol label.

February - March 2003

20th Century Fox flew Gareth to Los Angeles for 5 weeks to work on "The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen" - a major Hollywood feature film staring Sean Connery.

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