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Thanks to Create Digital Music for the heads up. I’d love to deliver a music project which had young people using the MIDI grids! I like the energy of the performance, if you push the buttons does it effect the velocity?
dromama from Altitude Sickness on Vimeo. The Guitarmaton (by Ian Hattwick) looks like good fun, but goodness it would take someone like me ages to make! Last one is Jordan’s Rudess’ iPad music application released a few days ago called MorphWiz, what a melancholy sound! I’m sure, no certain there are other synth sounds available, but again think the possibilities of using an application with live instruments would be wicked! MorphWiz first experiment – Tiridum from Geert Bevin on Vimeo. |
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How the Fr*&g is it February Already?
Listen from 10:27 to the end if time is limited, lurve, lurve, lurve John Adams, please be my mentor, i’ll bake for you! I’ll propose to you on the 29th!! Lol! Don’t tell the wife. Developed the ‘Push and Pull’
How the Fr*&g is it February Already?
Listen from 10:27 to the end if time is limited, lurve, lurve, lurve John Adams, please be my mentor, i’ll bake for you! I’ll propose to you on the 29th!! Lol! Don’t tell the wife. Developed the ‘Push and Pull’
Sketchisimo
What do you get if you cross a dodgy keys player, midi sounds, Logic Pro, an hour, excessive listening of Ravel and afrosounds? A musical sketch which sounds like this: sketchy (my bounces always end abruptly for this blog). I know
Sketchisimo
What do you get if you cross a dodgy keys player, midi sounds, Logic Pro, an hour, excessive listening of Ravel and afrosounds? A musical sketch which sounds like this: sketchy (my bounces always end abruptly for this blog). I know
A late Akemashite Omedetou De Gozaimasu (Happy New Me)
A new year, new year’s resolutions, brand new second hand you, new diaries, new socks. Instead of resolutions I have made some determinations (kind of similar) but the process is habitual (twice daily in fact), and I am winning, I’ll share
A late Akemashite Omedetou De Gozaimasu (Happy New Me)
A new year, new year’s resolutions, brand new second hand you, new diaries, new socks. Instead of resolutions I have made some determinations (kind of similar) but the process is habitual (twice daily in fact), and I am winning, I’ll share
Push and Pull
My Uchenna dance score commission deadline fast approaches. It’s been good fun working on it, is my compositional skill developing? I hope so. I am starting to see patterns in my musical style which is good, this awareness will mean
Push and Pull
My Uchenna dance score commission deadline fast approaches. It’s been good fun working on it, is my compositional skill developing? I hope so. I am starting to see patterns in my musical style which is good, this awareness will mean
New Commission, Another Sketch
Collaborating some more with Uchenna Dance co. Have learnt loads from previous commissions; indeed the process never ends. Here’s a wicked bit of advice for budding dance composers like me. Today’s 30 min sketch, loops, playing with midi, ah, if
New Commission, Another Sketch
Collaborating some more with Uchenna Dance co. Have learnt loads from previous commissions; indeed the process never ends. Here’s a wicked bit of advice for budding dance composers like me. Today’s 30 min sketch, loops, playing with midi, ah, if
Episodes of Blackness
A dance piece I composed music for is being performed next month at Dance Xchange, 4th November. I’ll be sat at the back biting my nails, critiquing. Be there!
Episodes of Blackness
A dance piece I composed music for is being performed next month at Dance Xchange, 4th November. I’ll be sat at the back biting my nails, critiquing. Be there!
Just write.
(For the creatives). “Just write. It’s not about sitting around waiting for the muse.The people who are really good labour over what they write.” Amy Ray
Just write.
(For the creatives). “Just write. It’s not about sitting around waiting for the muse.The people who are really good labour over what they write.” Amy Ray
holidays
Spent the month away from the Midlands. Started southside in Hastings with my beautiful friends Debs and Ben. I taught EFL in a beautiful school, swimming twice a week early each morning in the outdoor pool. I went from coughing,
holidays
Spent the month away from the Midlands. Started southside in Hastings with my beautiful friends Debs and Ben. I taught EFL in a beautiful school, swimming twice a week early each morning in the outdoor pool. I went from coughing,
Workshopped Out
Been delivering a fair amount of workshops this term, as well as being busy running new promotion Rea River Soul, last venture was a success, lots of great feedback – woop! The promotion game is a tiring one when you’re
Workshopped Out
Been delivering a fair amount of workshops this term, as well as being busy running new promotion Rea River Soul, last venture was a success, lots of great feedback – woop! The promotion game is a tiring one when you’re
This should keep you happy and busy : http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix – it did me
Ta DK! I stumbled upon it a while back, but haven’t played it for time, thanks for reminding me!
Hi Bobbie,
I mean absolutely no disrespect. And as a pianist, I’m sure you can understand my inquiry as it is sincere. Is the above considered musicianship or an activity from DJ culture?
And if it is some derivative of DJ culture, do the people involved understand this or are they saying that they are “musicians”?
For example, I play. In fact I play 3 instruments and have spent a years learning each, however never would I claim to be a musician. My skill level has not reached nearly what I understand that to mean. However, I am an audio engineer and this is also what I do to earn a living.
Audio engineers know the difference between being in the control room and being the talent. But do these new DJ styled performers know the difference between musicianship and DJ culture?
-Perry
Hi Perry,
Thanks for your comment! I think… maybe you’re right re the examples, (apart from the guitar one), being more an activity from DJ culture, but I’m anti the gate keeping of the term ‘musician’, I work with lots of people who don’t think they are musical, and after much endeavor they disprove the fact.
I think you can be a DJ and valid in calling yourself a musician. Your comment about playing is probably directed more about instrumentalists, and the flagellation we inflict on ourselves for not attaining the levels we aspire to, which can be in my opinion, counter productive to creativity, playing, and progression. I don’t think I’m the right person to comment about DJ performers knowing the difference, and I’m sure DJs have their own hangups about developing their performance/musicianship skills when tackling different forms of DJ culture.