Neil Aldridge

Neil Aldridge

Senior Lecturer, Te Rewa O Puanga - the School of Music and Creative Media Production

Neil Crispin Aldridge is an innovative, passionate New Zealand based composer/producer with a background in music production and film sound. As a sound artist, he creates intricate, intimate soundscapes that confuse distinctions between composition and sound design. Under the moniker An Ogre, he composes and produces commercial pop electronica music.

Neil Aldridge has worked extensively in both the commercial music and film postproduction worlds. He worked as a sound engineer in London from 1990 until he left to come to Wellington in 2003, recording and mixing artists including Rod Stewart, Baby Spice Emma Bunton and All Saints. 

In New Zealand, Aldridge moved into the film world, and has worked as a dialogue supervisor, dialogue and ADR editor, ADR supervisor, mixer, and recordist.  Among other films, he worked on King Kong, Avatar, The Adventures of Tintin, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, District 9, The Lovely Bones, and The Hobbit trilogy.

 

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  • Expertise

    Sound Art, Music Production, Electronic Music, Children’s Music, Sound Engineering

  • Research Highlights
    • Producer, Composer — Various Releases, An Ogre
    • Composer — Puffs & Pings: Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy; Journées Nationale de l’Architecture, Paris, France: Outside The Lines Chicago, USA
    • Composer/Sound Artist — The Materialised Temporality of Dust: Ars Electronica, Liz, Austria; Australasian Computer Music Conference 2024 (ACMC); Sydney, Australia
    • Recording Engineer — Saints & Sinners — All Saints: Double Platinum Record (UK); Platinum record (Europe); Gold Record (Denmark); Gold Record (Australia)
    • ADR Editor, ADR Mixer, ADR Supervisor — The Hobbit Trilogy

     

  • Professional Affiliations

    Screen Music & Sound Guild (SMSG), executive committee member
    Music Producer’s Guild Aotearoa (MPGNZ), executive committee member
    Motion Picture Sound Editor’s Guild (MPSE)
    Audio Engineering Society (AES)

  • Qualifications

    Master of Creative Enterprise (Massey University)

    BA Recording Arts (First Class Hons) (Middlesex University London)