Nicholas Phillips is a composer, producer, and music director whose career spans artist projects, film, branded work, and immersive sound.

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He began releasing music as Boxsaga and Violet, with records on Filter, Island Blue, and Junior Boy’s Own, and toured internationally as keyboardist for Spacek on their debut album Curvatia. A period of collaborations followed, including co-running the label Nonstop with Gabriel Prokofiev, his ongoing work with Phoebe Killdeer (True Stories), projects with Lou Hayter and their joint project The New Sins (Defected), and producing the debut album for Man Like Me. He is currently preparing a reissue of his Boxsaga/Violet catalogue alongside new artist material.

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This period also saw collaborations with Andrew Hale, Peter Smith, and Lou Hayter on original music and direction for fashion shows for clients such as Zegna, Paul Smith, Adidas, and Topshop, as well as assisting Hale on the BAFTA-winning game L.A. Noire, recorded with a 40-piece orchestra at Abbey Road.

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His time on the sound edit post team for Disney/Marvel gave him first-hand experience of large-scale studio filmmaking and marked the expansion into composing for screen. He has since scored documentaries including Escape from ISIS (Edward Watts, Samantha Morton), 54 Days: China and the Pandemic (Jane McMullen), and Kids in Crisis (Alison Millar, with featured guitar from Bernard Butler), alongside the feature Abducted, which won Best Independent Feature Score at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema.

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Nicholas has composed and directed music for large-scale branded productions, from the Fiat 500X Power of X campaign to Dynamo’s Seeing Is Believing stadium tour. For Bentley he created a 3D in-car sound experience for the Bentayga launch in collaboration with Tom Hingston, while his Metamorphosis installation at Zaha Hadid’s Roca Gallery reimagined marble and architecture as sound. He developed Invesco’s global sonic branding campaign in collaboration with Browns, and scored Lewis Hamilton’s film for his GQ Man of the Year Award.

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As a music editor, Nicholas’s forthcoming credits include 7 Dogs (Adil & Bilall, score by Lorne Balfe), Mutiny (Jason Statham), and Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV+ with Emma Thompson). His released projects include The Tower (Nainita Desai), Canary Black (Pierre Morel, Kate Beckinsale), and Tom & Jerry (Tim Story).

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As creative director in residence at Middlesex University’s Science & Technology Department, Nicholas co-directed Into the Frame, a four-year project combining 3D sound, art, robotics, and haptics, which culminated in a two-week exhibition at London’s Red Gallery. The work included usability studies with autistic children, co-authoring research papers, and a presentation at the International Conference for Rehabilitation Robotics in the USA. His current projects expand on this research, exploring adaptive sound systems, EMDR-inspired frequency protocols, sonic avatars, and gamified therapeutics at the intersection of wellness and emerging technology.

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Nicholas is driven by an interest in how sound and music shape culture, memory, and emotion, and by the collaborative process that brings that vision to life.

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Contact: nickmusicandsound@protonmail.com

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Studio:

Resident Studio,

Qube East,

9 Park Drive,

Canary Wharf,

London E14 9GG.

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