Mark Ayres
Personal Info
Known for
Sound
Gender
Male
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.
Known For
Acting
(2024)
(2023)
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
as Himself
(2013)
Doctor Who at the Proms
as Self
(2011)
Horror on the High Rise
as Presenter
(2011)
(2008)
(2007)
(2006)
(2003)
The Alchemists of Sound
as Self
(1995)
Crew
(2024)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
(2023)
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
(2021)
Return to Skaro
Thanks
(2021)
(2019)
(2017)
Doctor Who: Shada
Sound, Original Music Composer
(2016)
(2013)
Scar Tissue
Music
(2013)
(2011)
The End of the Line?
Sound
(2011)
Come in Number Five
Thanks
(2009)
Cybermen
Thanks
(2009)
(2008)
(2008)
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
Production Consultant
(2004)
Dæmos Rising
Sound
(2004)
Global Conspiracy?
Sound
(2002)
Myth Makers 53: Patrick Troughton
Sound Designer
(1999)
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Music Consultant
(1996)
Unnatural Selection
Original Music Composer
(1996)
Ghosts of Winterborne
Original Music Composer
(1995)
The Devil of Winterborne
Original Music Composer
(1994)
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
Producer, Original Music Composer, Sound
(1994)
The Zero Imperative
Original Music Composer
(1993)
30 Years in the TARDIS
Original Music Composer
(1993)
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Original Music Composer
(1992)
Sophie’s Choice
Original Music Composer
(1991)
(1990)
Myth Makers 20: David Banks
Original Music Composer
(1989)
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Original Music Composer
(1989)
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
Original Music Composer
(1989)
Myth Makers 17: Tom Baker
Original Music Composer
(1988)
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Original Music Composer
(1988)
Wartime
Original Music Composer
(1987)
Myth Runner
Original Music Composer
(1986)
Myth Makers 12: Ian Marter
Original Music Composer
(1986)
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
Original Music Composer
(1985)
Myth Makers 5: Janet Fielding
Sound Designer
(1985)
Myth Makers 6: Nicola Bryant
Location Coordinator
(1985)
Myth Makers 3: Nicholas Courtney
Original Music Composer
(1984)
Myth Makers 2: John Leeson
Original Music Composer
(1984)
Myth Makers 1: Michael Wisher
Original Music Composer