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-founding and running the label Nonstop with Gabriel Prokofiev, his ongoing work with Phoebe Killdeer as 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 original music and direction for fashion shows for clients such as Zegna, Paul Smith, Adidas, and Topshop, as well as additional music for Rockstar's BAFTA-winning LA Noire, recorded with a 43-piece orchestra at Abbey Road.

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His most recent work includes shaping the initial musical identity of Idris Elba's forthcoming directorial debut for Apple Original Films, This Is How It Goes.

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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 the International Emmy and RTS Award-winning Escape from Isis (Edward Watts, narrated by Samantha Morton), 54 Days: China and the Pandemic (Jane McMullen), the most streamed Frontline documentary of 2021, and RTS Award-winning Kids in Crisis (directed by Alison Millar, narrated by Christopher Eccleston, 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: 145 dates, three continents, 750,000 tickets sold. For Bentley he created a 3D in-car sound experience for the Bentayga launch in collaboration with Hingston Studio, 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 Design, and scored Lewis Hamilton's GQ Game Changer of the Year film.

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As a music editor, recent credits include 7 Dogs (Adil & Bilall, composer Lorne Balfe), The Faithful (Ben Wallfisch, Fox/Hulu), Mutiny (Jason Statham), Down Cemetery Road (Emma Thompson) for Apple TV+, Make or Break for Apple TV+ (CJ Mirra), The Tower (Nainita Desai), Canary Black (Pierre Morel, Kate Beckinsale), and Tom & Jerry (Tim Story), where several music selections and original recordings were adopted in the final Warner Bros release.

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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. The intersection of spatial audio, adaptive sound and therapeutic technology remains an active area of exploration.