April 2009 – Heather Fenoughty

27 April 200918 February 2022

Composing Music for Slung Low Theatre

Slung Low makes installation and site-specific theatre. It's anything but conventional, but its primary purpose is 'a good story, well told'. Whenever music will enable us to do this, that's when we use it. Posts about Scoring Slung Low Shows: Scoring the Song: Emergency Story Penguin New Album Release: Emergency Story Penguin Listen to the …

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16 April 200922 March 2022

Deadlines: Making Music To Order

black and white image of vintage condenser microphone for voice

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 …

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12 April 20099 February 2022

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 …

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9 April 20095 December 2024

Copyright and Exclusivity

Edit: As of August 2010 the Music Store exists no longer! Instead, head over to Premiumbeat to get your mits on some tunes. 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 …

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7 April 20095 December 2024

Composing Film Music Tips: Imperfection

I'm continuing this series of tips for composing music with a post about imperfection. 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, listening to tracks I created when fresh out of music college. (Edit: As of August 2010 the …

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6 April 200918 October 2023

Composing Music Tips: Find Your Voice

Composing music is all about communication: communicating mood, intention, pace, atmosphere, character, movement... but how do you communicate all these things without finding your own voice? 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 …

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1 April 200918 October 2023

Composing Music Tips: Suspensions

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' one note of a chord over into and replace the nearest note in the next chord (usually the chord's middle note, or 3rd), and then 'resolve' to the note it …

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