There was an opportunity to compose a one page score for top ensemble Noszferatu as part of Frontiers Festival. I was mad busy working/writing essays/finishing other pieces and had resignedContinue readingTapeworm
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stuff no-one told me
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100 Hour challenge
It’s been a month since I last updated you on this. Well, well, well, haven’t I been good! Wherever there is a piano, I is. I am practicing jazz standardsContinue reading100 Hour challenge
Week 6 & 7: 100 Hr Challenge
Day 1: Fail, still in Brumtee, spoke to mi ma about secretly moving my piano from the old house to the new (behind Pa’s back), we’ll see, he doesn’t reallyContinue readingWeek 6 & 7: 100 Hr Challenge
Soulful Summer
Just completed a week of workshops for THSH and UFA, project was called Soulful summer. I helped facilitate sessions based mainly on developing young people’s composition skills. I was blownContinue readingSoulful Summer
Week 5: 100 Hour Challenge
Day 1: Fail Day 2: Fail Day 3: Fail Day 4: Fail Day 5: Fail Day 6: Fail Day 7: Fail Summer workshops all day last week. In Brum. IContinue readingWeek 5: 100 Hour Challenge
100 Hour Challenge: Week Four
Day 1: Practiced and wrote music with fellow workshoppers for half a day, spent the other half playing jazz standards for a few hours, really slowly, still practicing the sameContinue reading100 Hour Challenge: Week Four
100 Hour challenge: Third week
Hmmmm… Day 1: Practiced for two hours Day 2: Practiced for an hour Day 3: Back in Birmingham, no practice Day 4: Nada Day 5: Nada Day 6: Nada DayContinue reading100 Hour challenge: Third week
100 Hour challenge: Second week
Day 9: Practiced for two hours, worked through 2-5-1s randomly. Tried to improvise over them, sounded pants! Day 10: Went to Rachel’s after workshopping all day, got lost, took agesContinue reading100 Hour challenge: Second week
100 Hour Challenge: Days 4 – 8
I spoke to my mum about my old piano (given to me at childhood); currently covered in cobwebs and black bags (don’t ask), but the easiest option was to useContinue reading100 Hour Challenge: Days 4 – 8
100 Hour Challenge Anyone?
I went along to a regional creative agent conference today and was inspired by Ewan McIntosh to do a 100 hour challenge, well in fact, I was initially inspired byContinue reading100 Hour Challenge Anyone?