A Blog A Day 30-Day Challenge: Post Mortem

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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 [...]

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 [...]

30 Day Challenge – A Post A Day

I’ve become a fan of the 30 day challenge, where you pick a habit that you’d really like to create (or even one you’d like to lose) and you concentrate on doing that habit day in, day out, for a month.
The idea is that it takes 20 iterations of an action (or so) to [...]

Networking on Twitter

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Twitter is an online, micro-blogging site which asks the simple question ‘what are you doing now?’ and you respond in 140 characters or less. I’ve been on it for about 3 weeks now, and it’s value as a networking and collaboration tool is probably what will keep me there.

Initially, I joined purely out of [...]

Free Blogging Course

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog. 
It covers:

The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve [...]

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 [...]