Creativity and How To Deal with Mental Blocks
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Having a creative career is absolutely the best thing ever. I really do love it. But there comes a point when you’ve been ‘creating’ for 8 hours straight and suddenly you hit a brick wall – bam! And that’s it. [...]
10 Top Tips – Writing Film Music
So you’ve got a great commission, composing music for feature film.
Congratulations!
But now what? Here are a few ideas that I’ve learned (often from some pretty tough lessons) make the process go a little more smoothly…
Get involved as early on as possible
Communicate with your director
Communicate with the editor
Be really clear about tone/mood/emotion
Be really clear about [...]
Writing Music for Theatre – Helium
The ’short adventure for one’, Helium, has completed its run at the Barbican.
4 stars in The Guardian
The show is a theatrical installation, or ‘box show’ where an audience member travels through a number of specially-constructed rooms featuring digital audio, video and live performance. The audience is invited to follow Bella’s imaginary journey through her Grandfather’s [...]
First Post
Hi – and welcome to my new blog!
My first post comes on one of the last few performance dates of ‘Helium’ by Slung Low, performing at The Barbican in London to riotous acclaim (4 stars in The Guardian, same in Metro), and the news that I’ll be off to Florida in October with the [...]
