Mark Ayres
Known For: Sound
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Sea Devils ... (Sound Designer)
- Remembering/Forgetting 'The Savages' as Self
2024
- Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour ... (Sound Designer)
- The Making of The Daleks in Colour as Self
2023
- Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour ... (Sound Designer)
- Tales of the Tardis ... (Original Music Composer)
- Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration as Himself
2021
- Return to Skaro ... (Thanks)
- Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks ... (Sound)
2020
2019
- Doctor Who: The Macra Terror ... (Sound)
2017
- Doctor Who: Shada ... (Sound)
2016
- Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks ... (Sound)
2013
- Doctor Who at the Proms as Self
- Scar Tissue ... (Music)
2011
- Come in Number Five ... (Thanks)
- The End of the Line? ... (Sound)
- Horror on the High Rise as Presenter
- The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition
2009
- Mounting the Rescue ... (Thanks)
- Cybermen ... (Thanks)
- Roger Delgado: The Master ... (Thanks)
- The Cold War ... (Thanks)
2008
2007
- Doctor Who: Endgame as Self
2006
2004
- Dæmos Rising ... (Sound)
- Scoring The Visitation as Self
- Global Conspiracy? ... (Sound)
2003
- The Alchemists of Sound as Self
- Putting the Shock into Earthshock ... (Sound)
- Future Memories: Making 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' ... (Sound)
2002
- Myth Makers 53: Patrick Troughton ... (Sound Designer)
1999
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death ... (Music Consultant)
1998
- Doctor Who: The Missing Years ... (Sound)
1996
- PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne ... (Original Music Composer)
- PROBE: Unnatural Selection ... (Original Music Composer)
1995
- PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1994
- PROBE: The Zero Imperative ... (Original Music Composer)
- Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans ... (Producer)
1993
- 30 Years in the TARDIS ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' ... (Original Music Composer)
1992
- Sophie’s Choice ... (Original Music Composer)
1991
- Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker ... (Sound)
1990
- Myth Makers 20: David Banks ... (Original Music Composer)
1989
- Doctor Who: Ghost Light ... (Original Music Composer)
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric ... (Original Music Composer)
- Myth Makers 17: Tom Baker ... (Original Music Composer)
1988
- Wartime ... (Original Music Composer)
- Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy ... (Original Music Composer)
1987
- Myth Runner ... (Original Music Composer)
1986
- McDonnell Douglas Information Systems ... (Original Music Composer)
- Myth Makers 12: Ian Marter ... (Original Music Composer)
1985
- Myth Makers 3: Nicholas Courtney ... (Original Music Composer)
- Myth Makers 5: Janet Fielding ... (Sound Designer)
- Myth Makers 6: Nicola Bryant ... (Location Coordinator)
1984
- Myth Makers 2: John Leeson ... (Original Music Composer)
- Myth Makers 1: Michael Wisher ... (Original Music Composer)