Mark Ayres
Biography
Mark Ayres is an electronic musician, composer and audio engineer. Ayres studied music and electronics at Keele University. He also worked as a sound engineer at TV-am between 1982 and 1987. As a television composer, he became known for providing incidental music on the original series of Doctor Who. Ayres's work on broadcast Doctor Who was during Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor, comprising The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric. Ayres was hired after he sent producer John Nathan-Turner a demonstration video containing music he had written to accompany Remembrance of the Daleks. Like most Doctor Who incidental music composers during the 1980s, Ayres created the music electronically, principally using digital synthesisers and samplers. Ayres was also involved in the last days of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, cataloguing and archiving their recordings for future use. As part of the BBC's unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team, Ayres has also done much of the audio restoration work for the later VHS Doctor Who releases, as well as many of the DVD releases, and all of the "Missing Soundtrack" CD releases since 1999.
Personal Details
Movies (44)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Sound Designer (Sound)
2024
The Making of The Daleks in Colour
as Self
2024
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
Sound Designer (Sound)
2023
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
as Himself
2023
Return to Skaro
Thanks (Crew)
2021
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Sound (Sound)
2021
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Sound (Sound)
2019
Doctor Who: Shada
Sound (Sound)
2017
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Sound (Sound)
2016
Scar Tissue
Music (Sound)
2013
Doctor Who at the Proms
as Self
2013
The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition
2011
Horror on the High Rise
as Presenter
2011
The End of the Line?
Sound (Sound)
2011
Come in Number Five
Thanks (Crew)
2011
Roger Delgado: The Master
Thanks (Crew)
2009
Cybermen
Thanks (Crew)
2009
Mounting the Rescue
Thanks (Crew)
2009
The Ties That Bind Us
Music (Sound)
2008
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
2008
Doctor Who: Endgame
as Self
2007
Love Off-Air
2006
Global Conspiracy?
Sound (Sound)
2004
Dæmos Rising
Sound (Sound)
2004
The Alchemists of Sound
as Self
2003
Future Memories: Making 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth'
Sound (Sound)
2003
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Music Consultant (Sound)
1999
Doctor Who: The Missing Years
Sound (Sound)
1998
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1996
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1996
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1995
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
Producer (Production)
1994
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1994
30 Years in the TARDIS
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1993
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1993
Sophie’s Choice
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1992
Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker
Sound (Sound)
1991
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1989
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1989
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1988
Wartime
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1988
Myth Runner
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1987
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1986
