
Mark Ayres
- Known for
- Sound
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

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour 2024
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer

The Making of The Daleks in Colour 2024
as Self

Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour 2023
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer

Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration 2023
as Self
- Return to Skaro
Return to Skaro 2021
Thanks

Doctor Who: Risen 2021
Sound

Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks 2021
Sound

Doctor Who: Return of the Autons 2020
Sound

Doctor Who: Home Assistant 2020
Sound

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror 2019
Sound

Doctor Who: Shada 2017
Sound, Original Music Composer

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks 2016
Sound

Thunderbirds 1965: The Stately Homes Robberies 2015
Sound Editor

Thunderbirds 1965: The Abominable Snowman 2015
Sound Editor

Thunderbirds 1965: Introducing Thunderbirds 2015
Sound Editor

Return of the Unknown 2014
Music

Scar Tissue 2013
Music

Doctor Who at the Proms 2013
as Self, Music

The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition 2011
Actor

Horror on the High Rise 2011
as Presenter

The End of the Line? 2011
Sound

Come in Number Five 2011
Thanks

Roger Delgado: The Master 2009
Thanks

Cybermen 2009
Thanks

Mounting the Rescue 2009
Thanks

The Ties That Bind Us 2008
Music

Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation 2008
Actor, Production Consultant

Doctor Who: Endgame 2007
as Self

Love Off-Air 2006
Actor

Global Conspiracy? 2004
Sound

Dæmos Rising 2004
Sound

The Alchemists of Sound 2003
as Self

Future Memories: Making 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' 2003
Sound

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death 1999
Music Consultant

Doctor Who: The Missing Years 1998
Sound

PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne 1996
Original Music Composer

PROBE: Unnatural Selection 1996
Original Music Composer

PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne 1995
Original Music Composer

The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans 1995
Actor

Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans 1994
Producer, Original Music Composer, Sound

PROBE: The Zero Imperative 1994
Original Music Composer

30 Years in the TARDIS 1993
Original Music Composer

The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' 1993
Original Music Composer

Sophie’s Choice 1992
Original Music Composer

Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker 1991
Sound

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric 1989
Original Music Composer

Doctor Who: Ghost Light 1989
Original Music Composer

Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 1988
Original Music Composer

Wartime 1988
Original Music Composer

Myth Runner 1987
Original Music Composer

McDonnell Douglas Information Systems 1986
Original Music Composer
Credits from TMDB.