Ranger Rover - Milan Design Week
Father worked closely with the team at Range Rover and Imagination to create the music and sound design for Traces, a site-specific installation at Galleria Meravigli, Milan, conceived with spatial design studio Storey Studio. Centred around memory, material and instinct, the installation was designed to take guests on a sensory journey through the story of Range Rover Bespoke, the brand's personalisation service.
The brief asked for sound that could function as an invisible thread, present throughout, yet never competing with the visual and spatial experience. With three distinct chapters to navigate, each with its own atmosphere and emotional register, the challenge was to create a cohesive sonic world that felt continuous without becoming repetitive. Sound needed to serve the space, not define it.
Our process began with material and place. We recorded and gathered sounds inspired by craft processes and the textures of the natural world, the kind of tactile, time-held sounds that mirror the instinct and memory at the heart of the Bespoke service. These became the raw palette from which everything else was built: processed, layered, and shaped into something new.
Each of the three chapters, Memory and Colour, Memory and Motif, and Memory and Material — was given its own distinct sonic character. The first, anchored by Felipe Sanguinetti's four-wall film tracing personal memory through colour, called for something expansive and atmospheric. The second, quieter and more intimate, required a more enveloping and contemplative tone to match its linen walls and commissioned embroidery works. The third, revealing the Pearl of Tay — a bespoke Range Rover commission inspired by the freshwater pearls of the River Tay, demanded a sense of quiet drama and landscape.
To ensure flow across all three spaces, every element was composed in the same key. No room competed with the next; instead, each dissolved naturally into the following one, allowing guests to move through the installation as a single, continuous experience. The result was a soundscape that operated the way the best Bespoke detail does — felt more than noticed, adding depth and intention to everything around it.