Just Because You Don’t Like It, Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Music.
I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve heard a friend, in response to a piece of music or film or some other piece of art, proclaim, “It’s rubbish,” (or use much stronger language ) when actually what they mean is, “I don’t like it.”
That bugs me a bit.
Don’t get me wrong [...]
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’ [...]
Do You Live Your Life Creatively?
Had to share this blog post about creativity and the myths that surround it: Myths about Creativity | Tickled By Life, by Shalu Wasu.
Go have a read… then come back here if you like.
I particularly enjoyed reading his attitudes about the application of creativity to all aspects of life, not just so-called creative [...]
A Day In The Life Of A Composer
Today is going to be a pretty typical day for me. As in hectic. And exactly the kind of work I like.
Although composing is now my bread and butter, I also do other work to keep the roof over my head. Today is a pretty good example of how I live day-to-day. It [...]
Online Drama ‘THE END IS NIGEL’ goes LIVE
‘THE END IS NIGEL’ is an online offbeat comedy-drama about a possible impending apocalypse…
This project was originally commissioned by SCREEN YORKSHIRE and BLINK to be a two-minute film for mobile phones, but [became] a little high-concept but low-budget online world full of webcomics, blogs and dummy websites, following saxophone-wielding deities, shady corporations and facing life after university as Verity tries to find out what happened to Nigel.
Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak in Florida
This is Day 5 for me at the Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak Plantation, Florida. I’m here as composer with a great bunch of artists from Punchdrunk Theatre developing ideas for their epic, immersive, experiential, theatre adaptation of Woyzeck.
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Any budding film composer really really needs to get involved with The Composer Collective. An online database, forum and resource for film music composers, they’ve just recently started ‘Teamscoring’: there’s a project in the works – the last three projects include a documentary, a drama feature and a sci-fi feature, just in the last week – and there’s the opportunity for every single member of the Composer Collective to get in on scoring it!
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 [...]
