Christopher Fisher Scotland, UK
A life
in sound.
I make music, build tools for the people who make it, and teach the next generation.
Step inside the studioMusic & moving image
Made to be felt.
Scores for imagined worlds, impossible encounters and stories that stay with you.
Best Original Soundtrack
Marietta International Film Festival
Corridor Digital × Christopher Fisher / 2012
SYNCHuman feeling.
Synthetic world.
An orchestral and electronic score across twelve chapters. Step into the story, or hear the music on its own.
Explore the twelve chapters
Film & original scoreChapter 01.
Charlie rescues a kidnapped senator's daughter.
Original episode · approximately 9:30The original episode upload is currently private. The story is available as a director’s cut.
The episode score.
Every published cue from episode 01, in sequence. Or choose a moment below.
Beyond the frame
Music that finds its way.
Alongside bespoke film scores, I write production and sync music for television, trailers and streaming. Tracks that travel beyond the studio and become part of someone else’s story.
Across screens, across borders
A wider world of sound.
Music heard across television and streaming.
- BBC
- CBS
- Netflix
- FOX
- Discovery
- ABC
- CNN
- CNBC
- National Geographic
- A&E
- AMC
- HGTV
- Food Network
- Comedy Central
- History
- Lifetime
- Bravo
- Telemundo
- FX
- Ovation
52 channels. Five countries.Explore the broadcast archive
- 3sat
- A&E
- ABC
- ABC Family
- AHC
- AMC
- ARD Das Erste
- BET
- BRAVO
- CBS Sports
- CMT
- CNBC
- CNN
- Comedy Central
- Destination America
- Discover Fit and Health
- Discovery
- DIY
- E!
- Food Network
- Fox Business
- Fox News
- FoxSports1
- FX
- FYI
- GAC
- H2 (previously History International)
- Hallmark Channel
- HGTV
- History Channel
- IFC
- L'Équipe
- Lifetime
- National Geographic
- NDR Fernsehen [NDS]
- Nederland 1
- Nederland 2
- Net 5
- Outdoor Channel
- Ovation
- Oxygen
- Phoenix TV
- ProSieben (CH)
- SBS 6
- Spike TV
- SWR FS
- SyFy
- Telemundo
- Travel Channel
- TV Guide
- WDR FS [Köln]
- WE
United States · Germany · France · Netherlands · Switzerland
Film, games & brands
Explore the work- EA
- Ubisoft
- BAMMO
- Corridor Digital
- Big Frame
- Abandon Ship Apparel
The next chapter
Co-founder / Datum Audiodatumaudio
More possibility.
Closer to the music.
We’re building intelligent software tools for musicians, producers and artists. Bringing together music, engineering and machine learning to support the creative process.
Explore Datum AudioSound,
made visible.
Behind the experiment
I’m exploring sound, shape and perception through synaesthesia and cymatics. On the workbench: a plate, an exciter, and a new practice of photographing patterns made by vibration.
Build a wave and follow it through four views. Sound is optional: listen to the shared source wave at the displayed frequency while the carrier motion is slowed 1,000 times. The envelope follows the same visible rise and fall. Frequency, amplitude, circle sizes and envelope shape the same signal in every view. The plate shows how a surface responds to it.
Preparing surface…
About the plate response
The same sine components drive a fixed 30 cm plate. Their displacement energies combine through 64 calculated bending modes. Plate shape changes this receiving surface; it does not change the shared wave shown in the other views.
This approximate clamped aluminium plate is 0.8 mm thick. This is a steady-response estimate. Transient plate ring-down is not modelled. Grains illustrate movement towards quieter regions.
About this view
Every dot comes from the shared signal's recorded history. Height is its signed value; brighter blue shows stronger motion. Changing the source flows through the history instead of replacing it with an unrelated pattern.
About this view
The actual source history travels outward with a delay of distance ÷ 343 m/s, with the same slowdown as the circles. Height graphs pressure, not air moving up and down. Switching views reveals one section through that same field.
About this view
Each circle adds one sine component. The endpoint’s height is the shared signal. Circle sizes are direct sine amplitudes: halving one halves its contribution in every view. Odd harmonics build a square wave; odd and even harmonics build a sawtooth. These are finite, twelve-harmonic approximations. The amplitude sliders grow from zero. The ø buttons reverse a sine component by 180 degrees without changing its size.
The envelope scales all circle radii together. The carrier is slowed for viewing; envelope stage lengths control the visual note.
Music technology education
Make room for
different minds.
There’s no single way to learn. I care about helping people find theirs.
I teach music technology at the University of the West of Scotland, serve on the University Senate, and meet aspiring producers and engineers through schools and college outreach.
The aim is simple: help the next generation find the confidence, skills and curiosity to make something of their own.
University of the West of ScotlandA little understanding
goes a long way.
Making your MIDI controller work for you
Getting sound and picture in sync
The person behind the work
Always curious.
A composer’s ear.
An engineer’s curiosity.
A teacher’s belief in people.
I’m Chris. You’ll also find me as krystopfer. My work moves between composing, audio technology, machine learning and education. The thread through it all is a fascination with how things work and what we can make possible for each other.
Outside the studio, that curiosity takes me into filmmaking, FPV flying, 3D printing and making things by hand.
Earlier in my career, I co-founded Dronely, exploring how to land large drones on ships miles out at sea. Our industrial and maritime work helped inform the practical considerations behind the Civil Aviation Authority’s developing frameworks for beyond visual line of sight flight. These days, I enjoy the view.
Beyond the studio
@FPVDadGood things start with a conversation.
Let’s talk.hello@krystopfer.com