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 [...]
music
E14 baby!
I’ve spent most of today following the Vocab Dance brief of starting with a seed, so long intros. What excites me about the live performance aspect is seeing/hearing the vocal artists improvise over the loops I’ve created. Here’s some blurb about the piece: “Using dance theatre, music and spoken word, the mixed bill premieres brand [...]
Out My Mind, Just in Time
Spring and Christmas time are most prone for breakups. You may have seen this back in November – apparently facebook can predict when couples are going to call it a day. Stats can be altered to say anything in my opinion, but the article is quite thought-provoking. If the geezer is right then that’s quite [...]
Before Day
Yeeeeeeessssss! Sunday night vibes!
a little reverb on the snare
Today’s sketch, i love playing with midi! rocky A little dubsteppy, bass line needs work.
Sketchisimo
I’ve been commissioned by Vocab Music to write some music for dance – inspired by youth culture. The brief is to create music that develops from a seed to include variation and development, mainly instrumental, loop based, hip hop deluxe. This morning I messed around with midi, thought I’d share some sketches. I’ve also been [...]
Luke Abbott – Swansong
I love this, it really tugs on my heart strings. It starts off a bit crazy and then turns into a lush, sonic sojourn.
Radigue’s Sonic Beds
Triptych – The Music of Eliane Radigue from Sound and Music on Vimeo. You can learn more here.
a sketch for today
I can’t compete with Anna Hardy’s photo a day challenge, but have been writing short bits and bobs. Here’s today’s grey cloud, cherry blossom meanderings: 29.3.11 Quite church-y at the start, maybe I’ll take it along to my rehearsal, see if we can turn it into something nice.
The Waiting Room
Harborne Academy‘s waiting room transformed: We faced several drawbacks, people not understanding the ideas of our transformed space, (especially older groups), some said there was not enough seating, some didn’t like it, but we quickly we addressed their concerns, and resolved any issues. We had a lot of positive feedback on the whole. The making [...]