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’ ting some more. Quite like where it’s going, getting darker, a real challenge today considering [...]
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 weird ennit. Gonna use it for Uchenna methinks, just so much tidying to do. Couldn’t [...]
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 few. They are: Respect for all life (including my own) Respect for money Create [...]
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 I can take more compositional risks, (as I’m starting to grow bored of what I [...]
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 only I could access live musicians more easily. This academic year’s challenge. Listen with headphones or [...]
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
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, spluttering and wheezing (after just two lengths) to a much improved front crawl (and a [...]
Fly or Die
Old, but funky.
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 work full time, most of us do and I shan’t complain! An eventful/Creative Partnerships project [...]