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Go behind the scenes of The Collections: Bright Fear, City of London Sinfonia's new work inspired by @maryjeanchan acclaimed poetry collection. 
 
British-Hong Kong composer @nicolatchang has written a new score for CLS musicians and traditional Chinese instruments. The result is a conversation between words and music that explores identity, belonging and language. 
 
Performed by City of London Sinfonia at @kingsplacelondon on 7 November. 
🎟️ Tickets from £10. Link in bio. by @nicolatchang
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BLOODSPORT: AFTER HELEN OF TROY 🩸

“amplified by Nicola T Chang’s bone-shaking score and sound” - The Guardian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The action […] is genuinely dramatic, taking surprising twists and providing real shocks, underpinned by Nicola T Chang’s sound design” WhatsOnStage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Nicola T. Chang’s moody soundtrack creates the unsettling sense that more fighting is to come” - London Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“[…] Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy grabs you instantly with booming music by Nicola T Chang” - West End Best Friend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Stage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Standard ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Time Out ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Absolutely fantastic work by our incredibly talented @nicolatchang on Bloodsport at Stratford East✨

The Team:

Writer: Ava Pickett 
Director: Lisa Spirling 
Set & Costume Designer: Polly Sullivan
Lighting Designer: Zeynep Kepekli 
Sound Designer and Composer: Nicola T. Chang 
Movement Director: Kloé Dean
Dramaturg: Ed Madden 
Fight & Intimacy Coordinator: Enric Ortuno

📸 - Tristram Kenton taken in Stratford East by @nicolatchang
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a month ago
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So this is New England then - Bloodsport 2026

Explosive sound from Nicola T. Chang [punctuates] changes in tone.
★★★★★ The Spy in the Stalls

Nicola T Chang’s sound and composition brings a thumping urgency; a punching rhythm that sometimes settles into rapid heartbeat. More than once, the audience [is] jolted upright by the soundtrack."
★★★★.5 London Unattached

Comedy and drama are deftly paced and balanced in the production, amplified by Nicola T Chang’s bone-shaking score and sound.
★★★★ The Guardian

The action as it unfolds – as the women challenge their patriarchal, violent husbands – is genuinely dramatic, taking surprising twists and providing real shocks, underpinned by Nicola T Chang’s sound design.
★★★★ WhatsOnStage

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy grabs you instantly with booming music by Nicola T Chang.
★★★★ West End Best Friend

Director Lisa Spirling [...] has given it a tight, atmospheric production with great sound design by Nicola T Chang that heralds each act with a flurry of gunfire and human mayhem. This is an evening unlike anything else onstage right now.
★★★★ The Arts Desk

Nicola T. Chang’s thumping and bolshy soundtrack. [...] emphasises the claustrophobia and the chaos contained within the house perfectly.
★★★★ Liam O'Dell

Nicola T. Chang's moody soundtrack creates the unsettling sense that more fighting is to come.
★★★★ London Theatre
 
Nicola T. Chang’s atmospheric sound design effectively enhances the sense of a society still living in the shadow of conflict.
Theatre Weekly taken in Theatre Royal Stratford by @nicolatchang
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Thrilled to announce the publication of an interview with Nicola Chang. An award winning Composer, Sound Designer, Musical Director and stage performer. Nicola is an incredibly energising person to be around and it was amazing to learn about Nicola's most recent work, insights into her methods, and thoughts on accessing creativity. 

There are so many of Nicola's tracks that could accompany this post, but here is Nicola's piece for Minority Report for which she won a nomination for Sound Design 🙌🏽

Scroll for a few excerpts, and find the full interview on my Notes on Being Creative Substack, linked in my bio 🖋️

If you’re interested in creativity, the lives of people making cool things, and finding new ways to think about creativity and make more freely, follow along. I share conversations with inspiring creatives, my own ambient electronic music and poetry, and personal experiments and activities exploring creativity.

And if you’d like a little creative inspiration in your inbox, you can subscribe to Notes on Being Creative for a new article every Thursday, plus monthly creative prompts 🖌️🧶📸 by @nicolatchang
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2 months ago
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THE TEMPEST🌪️

The Guardian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Telegraph ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Times ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
WhatsOnStage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
All That Dazzles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Arts Desk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Congratulations to our very own @nicolatchang on this stunning version of The Tempest now on at @thersc 🤩

The Team:
Director: Richard Eyre
Movement Director: Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster
Fight Director: Kev McCurdy
Set Designer: Bob Crowley
Costume Designer: Fotini Dimou
Lighting Designer: Hugh Vanstone
Sound Designer: Nicola T. Chang
Video/Projection Designer: Akhila Krishnan

📸 - Johan Persson taken in RSC Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon by @nicolatchang
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5 months ago
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SUMMERFOLK🌸🍃

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Times
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Telegraph
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Financial Times
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Standard
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ WhatsOnStage
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Broadway World

“[…] each scene breaks with bursts of increasingly melodramatic music by Nicola T. Chang, matching the escalating tensions within the group.” - The Stage

Congratulations @nicolatchang on your beautiful composition 🎶💕 Smashed it out of the park as usual!

The Team:
Director: Rob Hastie
Set & Costume Designer: Peter McKintosh
Lighting Designer: Paul Pyant
Sound Designer: Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Composer: Nicola T. Chang
Music Director: Candida Caldicot
Movement Director: Thomas Herron

📸 - Johan Persson taken in National Theatre by @nicolatchang
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7 months ago
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Summerfolk, Olivier Theatre NT

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During scene changes, powerful soundscapes composed by Nicola T. Chang tell a story in themselves. Her decision to merge rebel tune The Internationale with Shostakovich’s 5th is an enjoyable one. The sound of revolution crescendoes into Shostakovich’s internal rebellion against the oppressive Russian regime under which he composed. It’s a clear understanding of the material and a neat design element to extend the play’s message beyond its script and actors. 
★★★★★ The Recs taken in National Theatre - Olivier Theatre by @nicolatchang
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7 months ago
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THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES🕯️

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ WhatsOnStage
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Theatre and Tonic
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Stage
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Telegraph
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Times
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Guardian 

What incredible reviews of The Manningtree Witches with beautiful composition by @nicolatchang 🎶

Congratulations to the fantastic cast and crew on this triumph!💖

The Team:
Writer (Play): Ava Pickett 
Director: Natasha Rickman 
Set & Costume Design: Sara Perks 
Movement Director: Scott Graham for Frantic Assembly 
Lighting Designer: Lucia Sănchez Roldán 
Composer: Nicola T. Chang 
Sound Designer: Elena Peña 
Musical Director / Arranger: Anna Pool 
Fight Director: Philip d’Orléans 
Intimacy Director: Lucy Fennell 
Video Designer: Wilfred Wong

📸 - Pamela Raith taken in Mercury Theatre Colchester by @nicolatchang
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7 months ago
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Godspeed/please come back!!

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE / UK TOUR

Nicola T Chang’s musical score flashes, shimmers and booms.
★★★★ WhatsOnStage 

The live-performed score, brilliantly composed by Nicola T. Chang, plays a crucial role here, putting a frosty spin on the sounds of the mystical woods.
★★★★ The Recs

Nicola T. Chang’s syncopated, sometimes discordant score conveys a feeling of growing disquiet.
★★★★ Plays International taken in Shakespeares Globe Theatre by @nicolatchang
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9 months ago
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The Unbelievers 2025 @royalcourttheatre 

An increasingly complex sound design (Nicola T. Chang) moves the plot through the years.
★★★★ Broadway World taken in The Royal Court Theatre by @nicolatchang
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a year ago
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Ministry of Lesbian Affairs 2.0 - making things for your people with your people

Edit: we are Olivier-nom'ed!

The musical elements are beautifully integrated [...] The choir's sound is rich and full of heart.
★★★★★ Unmissable Theatre
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The arrangements are a total joy
★★★★ WhatsOnStage taken in Kiln Theatre by @nicolatchang
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Made a swell show about love, with people I love, with a lot of love #good

Edit: we are Olivier-nom'ed!

Nicola T Chang’s use of sound throughout is subtle but vital to the play’s success; the use of breath to create tension matches the breaths that we did not realise we were holding.
★★★★★ Lost in Theatreland
 
A tantalising vocal score (sound design by the prolific Nicola T. Chang) characterised by rich, haunting harmonies that, well, swell, conjuring the gently acknowledged ocean-side location of the play’s world. The score is not just melodic though. A sigh or gasp on stage is sometimes echoed by the other hidden voices, creating an unsettling surround-sound effect. You’ll find yourself glancing over your shoulder to see where it came from, and wondering how it sounded like it was right in your ear.
★★★★ Evening Standard

[The] swift transitions [are] set to really beautiful Imogen Heap-esque choral creations by Nicola T Chang.
★★★★ The Stage

Great credit too, to composer Nicola T. Chang for a quite extraordinary, beautiful, haunting sound design incorporating taped music with live harmonies from the cast. A weird, otherworldly sound that gives context to the strangeness of the story.
★★★★ The Reviews Hub

Ghostly live music composed by Nicola T Chang links scenes
★★★★ The Guardian

[A] soothing musical sound enhanced the onstage performance and moved the action along in a rather ethereal way
★★★★ Mark Aspen

A thoroughly convincing cast perform in an ambience greatly enhanced by composer Nicola T Chang’s music.
★★★★ The Arts Desk​

The piece is accompanied by a beautiful vocal score. Again, lively at the beginning, accompanying a fun night out scene, but increasingly more haunting. Characters offstage echo the action on stage with gasps or repeated words and the music becomes more and more melancholy... wonderful performances and an enchanting vocal score, creating a wonderful exploration of the human condition of love."
★★★★ All That Dazzles

Chang works wonders with an eerie and evocative soundscape some of which is hauntingly contributed to by the cast.
2ndfrombottom taken in Orange Tree Theatre by @nicolatchang
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3 years ago
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