There Are No Boundaries To Desire
Or so the tagline goes for the new show I'm composing for, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, which will play at the Everyman Playhouse in Liverpool later this year.
Are You The Right Personality Type to Be A Composer?
I'm doing all this business planning-type-stuff at the moment and part of it is to work out what you're actually good at and not, your strengths and weaknesses, and to take responsibility or delegate accordingly rather than doing the lot yourself. So I took this Myers-Briggs Test and it turns out I'm an 'INTJ'... sometimes …
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Sound Designing Experimental Theatre: Silica
I'm in the process of sound designing a new piece of experimental theatre: Silica. It's a highly visual theatre installation that merges live performance, composed sound, sculpture and film. The piece explores erosion, both of landscape and of the mind, presenting shifting, beautifully surreal and blurred perceptions of reality. It uses the language of landscapes to discuss disappearance and the ephemerality of moments within our lives and looks at memory not as a link to the past but the construction of a present “reality”.
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Watch Brian Blessed be Fantastical in ‘Mr Bojagi’
Note: 'Mr Bojagi' has now finished its short but very successful run on Daily Motion but you can still scroll down to watch me talk about the process of scoring the film and watch some other behind-the-scenes interviews with Brian and the rest of the cast and crew here. Brian Blessed stars in the fabulous, …
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Music for Theatre – Composing for All Eventualities
The music themes are all pretty much composed for The Count of Monte Cristo, a new, irreverent theatre adaptation of the book by Alexandre Dumas. Rehearsals start next week at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, where it will play from mid-April to mid-May.
These are some of the challenges which have become clear through the writing process.
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What I’m Lusting After: Luis and Clark Violin
Luis and Clark Violin This is what I'm lusting after right now. A Luis and Clark Carbon Fibre Violin. Grrrrrr... 😉 At $5539 (or £3427) I'm saving up my pennies, and not holding hope for Santa to do the honours. This sexy beast is made of a one-piece carbon fibre body and …
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Get the Musical Mojo Back
This post was originally written for ScorecastOnline.com. Ever have those days where you just don't feel like it? And no matter how much you stare at that blank sequencer page, the notes just aren't forthcoming? And you wonder if you'll ever get that li'l spark of inspiration back... How do you get your compositional, creative, …
They Only Come At Night: Visions on Tour
I love soundifying Slung Low's promos. They're so flippin' exciting! 🙂 The hit sell-out show is on tour... Sold out at the Barbican in October, They Only Come At Night: Visions is moving to the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, next week (23-28th November, 2009). So if you didn't get your ticket before they all sold …
Minimalism: Quality, not Quantity
I have an obsessive personality. I'm also a bit on the faddy side. So my latest penchant is minimalism... Not the musical variety (although I don't mind a bit of Glass every now and again), this is rather the holistic, organisational, get-rid-of-anything-don't-need kind of minimalism. I'll get on to the specifics in just a mo, …
They Only Come At Night: Visions @ Barbican, London
Every night in every town something happens at the edges of where people want to look. A pool of blood on a door step. A murder in a car park. A stabbing at a bus stop. Many are blamed but perhaps the real truth is lurking in the shadows and about to be revealed. They …
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