Mark Ayres
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.
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
(Himself)
Doctor Who at the Proms
(Self)
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
The Alchemists of Sound
(Self)
Horror on the High Rise
(Presenter)
Doctor Who: Endgame
(Self)
Love Off-Air
The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
The Making of The Daleks in Colour
(Self)
Scar Tissue
(Music)
Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker
(Sound)
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
(Producer)
Doctor Who at the Proms
(Music)
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
(Sound Designer)
Doctor Who: Shada
(Sound)
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
(Original Music Composer)
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
(Original Music Composer)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
(Sound Designer)
30 Years in the TARDIS
(Original Music Composer)
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
(Original Music Composer)
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
(Original Music Composer)
Wartime
(Original Music Composer)
Myth Runner
(Original Music Composer)
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
(Original Music Composer)
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
(Original Music Composer)
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
(Original Music Composer)
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
(Original Music Composer)
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
(Sound)
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
(Music Consultant)
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
(Original Music Composer)
Dæmos Rising
(Sound)
The End of the Line?
(Sound)
Doctor Who: Shada
(Original Music Composer)
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
(Original Music Composer)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
(Original Music Composer)
Sophie’s Choice
(Original Music Composer)
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
(Original Music Composer)
Come in Number Five
(Thanks)
The Ties That Bind Us
(Music)
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
(Sound)
Cybermen
(Thanks)
Return to Skaro
(Thanks)
Roger Delgado: The Master
(Thanks)
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
(Sound)
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
(Sound)
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
(Production Consultant)
Global Conspiracy?
(Sound)
Mounting the Rescue
(Thanks)
Future Memories: Making 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth'
(Sound)
Doctor Who: The Missing Years
(Sound)
Tales of the Tardis
(Original Music Composer)
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
(Sound)