Ben Imber, long-exposure portrait in a field at dusk

Bristol, UK

Ben Imber

Producer · Composer · Sound Designer

I make music and audio for artists, podcasts, brands and visual projects.

Selected work

As featured / supported by

BBC Introducing · Amazing Radio · Vogue · Vinyl Moon · Kitsuné Musique · Ones to Watch · The Line of Best Fit

Selected work

Music · Podcasts · Sound Design

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IMBER

Music · Production

Indie rock, alt-pop and folk running through electronic textures, circling themes of transformation and stillness. Streams in the hundreds of thousands. Debut single "Fall Over" was BBC Introducing's Track of the Week and reached No.7 on Amazing Radio, then went on to be selected for Vinyl Moon's Vol. 64: Odd Party, the curated vinyl compilation series.

Listen on Spotify → See Vinyl Moon Vol. 64 →
IMBER — Ben with his siblings James and Abigail, silhouetted at sunset

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Forwards

Music · Composition, Production & Recording

Solo EP written and recorded in March 2022. The goal was to embrace imperfection and capture a specific moment in time: many of the songs were recorded as they were being written.

Listen on Spotify →
Forwards, solo EP artwork, Ben Imber, March 2022

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Bitter Harvest

Podcast · Production · Sound Design

A documentary series on famine, land rights and food sovereignty, with fieldwork and interviews recorded across Kenya and Uganda. In production, coming soon.

Bitter Harvest — The Lived Experience of Famine, cover art

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Kalerrâ

Podcast · Production · Sound Design

A scored documentary podcast following an expedition to remote Greenland, co-created with Chloe Russell, combining interviews with artists and scientists, original music and field recordings.

Listen on Apple Podcasts →
Kalerra: Stories, Science, Soundscapes cover art

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Aforest

Music · Co-Production

Co-writing, co-production and session guitar for this electronic duo, blending bedroom electro-pop with '80s disco and Afrobeat rhythms. Streams past 100,000; recent single released via Kitsune Musique.

Listen on Spotify →
Aforest single cover art

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XU-ZHI × London Fashion Week

Composition · Commercial · Fashion

Roughly 40 minutes of original music for an XU-ZHI London Fashion Week presentation, developed from a visual mood board rather than a script.

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Credits

Other people's projects I've played, produced or written on

A few other people's projects I've had a hand in: guitar, production, mixing or writing, alongside someone else's vision.

FEY Session guitar · Songwriting · Co-production
Sophia Veraz "Where It Starts" · Co-writing, session guitar
Big in LA Production, recording, mixing & mastering · scheduled for release

Trelawny Production

Podcast production, on the more everyday brief

Not every podcast needs the documentary treatment. For shows that just need a reliable, professional sound every episode, that's Trelawny Production, the studio side of what I do: building new shows from scratch, or keeping an existing one running.

Elena Meets the Author podcast cover art

Elena Meets the Author

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Ongoing editing, mixing and delivery for Elena Bowes's bi-weekly literary podcast, featuring bestselling authors published by Penguin Random House.

SpeakYOU Revolution cover art

SpeakYOU Revolution

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Full podcast start-up for a platform helping women in business and the creative industries share their work.

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Smashing Secrets

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Full podcast start-up for Jo and Chloe Russell's mother-daughter Feng Shui podcast.

Deeper I logo

Deeper I

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Full podcast start-up for Lara's platform supporting people through talks, events and podcasts.

HRT Is Good For You cover art

HRT Is Good For You

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Full podcast start-up for Chloe Russell's series on hormone replacement therapy.

Services

How I work with people

Podcast production

Editing, sound design, mixing and delivery, plus retainers for shows that need it every episode.

Music production

From a raw idea to a finished, mixed track.

Composition

Original music for fashion, film, advertising and podcasts.

Sound design

Atmosphere that supports the story, not decoration.

Mixing & audio post

Dialogue editing, restoration, mixing and mastering.

About

I'm a Bristol-based producer, composer and sound designer: a multidisciplinary creative across music, podcasts and sound.

The format changes, a song, a podcast, a fashion film, but the job stays the same: shaping sound for artists, brands and podcast teams, from the first idea through to the finished piece.

Alongside client work, I make music as IMBER, supported early on by BBC Introducing, BBC Radio Bristol and Amazing Radio. The client side runs under my own name as Trelawny Production, from one-off jobs to ongoing retainers.