Spitfire Audio Co-founder Christian Henson Returns With New Project, The Crow Hill Company

Christian Henson, the co-founder of Spitfire Audio who stepped again from his energetic function within the corporate in 2022 after making allegedly transphobic feedback, has returned with a new project referred to as The Crow Hill Corporate.

It’s a platform providing quite a lot of products and services for artists, the place musicians can have interaction, supply comments and percentage concepts with one every other. There’ll it seems that be helpful sources to be had equivalent to educational movies and subscribers will obtain unfastened plugins and high quality skilled sound libraries.

The Bafta- and Ivor Novello-nominated TV, movie and video games composer, Christian Henson, has, he says, endured scoring function motion pictures and TV collection, together with Within No.9, all the way through his time clear of Spitfire Audio.

He published this and introduced his go back in a video posted to YouTube on Thursday 19 October. In it, Henson says, “So, for the previous six months, I’ve been on gardening depart. I fucking hate gardening.” If you happen to don’t know, gardening depart is when an worker, who has both resigned or had their employment terminated, is needed to steer clear of paintings all the way through the attention length whilst being paid.

Why did Christian Henson step down from Spitfire Audio?

The co-founder determined to take depart from Spitfire Audio because of feedback he made on-line that have been interpreted as transphobic. Henson expressed improve for JK Rowling and Graham ‘Glinner’ Linehan, either one of whom have confronted grievance for his or her perspectives on transgender problems, in a now-deleted tweet.

This tweet sparked a backlash from Spitfire Audio’s fans and artists like Ólafur Arnalds, who wrote, “Blanket statements like that harm the ones within the communities you could have helped created and people who maximum want our improve.” In consequence, Henson’s tweet, posted for lower than 24 hours, resulted in a vital collection of Spitfire Audio customers pronouncing their intent to boycott the corporate.

Spitfire Audio’s CEO on the time, Will Evans, later launched a commentary, writing, “We’ve labored exhausting to be a beacon for the trade and feature a duty to do higher”. He additionally introduced that Henson can be “taking a spoil” till the corporate labored out find out how to transfer ahead from the placement.

In social media publish reacting to Henson’s go back, manufacturer and content material writer Jeremy Blake AKA Purple Manner Recording calls Henson an “unrepentant transphobe”. He writes: “I’m no longer telling somebody to annoy him. I don’t assume that may lend a hand. I’m spreading this phrase in order that other people know what the corporate is known as so they may be able to spend their cash in other places, and likewise lend a hand other people steer clear of operating for this corporate in the event that they care about trans rights.”

A heads up for individuals who care:

Unrepentant transphobe Christian Henson is debuting his new corporate these days, after being disgracefully kicked from Spitfire Audio, the corporate he helped discovered, after aligning with Glinner and Rowling.

Video premiere: https://t.co/vCs6R9qTyl

— Jeremy Blake (@jjbbllkk) October 19, 2023

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