Composing Music for Slung Low Theatre
This month it was my turn to write the ‘New Thoughts’ article for the Slung Low website, entitled ‘Why Music’.
You can read the whole post here.
In the article I cover a few basic, practical reasons for including music in a Slung Low show.
Slung Low makes installation and site-specific theatre. It’s anything but conventional, [...]
Deadlines: Making Music To Order
I live for deadlines. I love the thought that at some defined point in the future, the project that I’m currently working on will be complete, that I will have something tangible to show for all my efforts, and that I can move onto something brand new.
A deadline is wonderfully focussing. For this reason alone [...]
A Blog A Day 30-Day Challenge: Post Mortem
On the 10th May 2009, I set myself the challenge to post a-blog-a-day for one month. In total, I managed to post 21 times.
So, whilst I didn’t actually manage to post every single day of that month, I wrote more (and procrastinated less) than I had in all the other months preceding it since [...]
Copyright and Exclusivity
Visit the Music Store here
In going through old music to see what’s available to put up on the Music Store for licensing to picture, I’ve had to go through a fair few old contracts to check what I can and can’t do with the music.
To be honest, even my younger self was [...]
Composing Film Music Tips: Imperfection
In honour of the two more voters on the poll (w00t!) —–>
I’ll continue this series of tips for composing music with a post about imperfection. Don’t worry, all will become clear…
I’ve been trawling through the ol’ music back catalogue to add to the new Music Store. It’s been a real trip down memory lane, [...]
Composing Music Tips: Find Your Voice
Composing music is all about communication: communicating mood, intention, pace, atmosphere, character, movement…
In thinking about more composing tips to discuss, it occurred to me that I was describing some of the techniques that I like to use, that sound right to me.
I’ve started in quite a general, generic way, talking about writing to the [...]
Composing Music Tips: Suspensions
You, the public have voted: 80% of you want more posts about tips on composing music! Vote now in the poll to the right: YOU decide what goes in this blog! ——->
So here’s today’s easy-to-implement tip: suspensions.
Suspensions are an incredibly easy way of adding colour to a series of chords. At their simplest, suspensions ’suspend’ [...]
