Writer’s Block? Impose Restrictions.
Sometimes, if I'm a little stumped as to how to proceed when composing music for any sort of media, I realise the reason is that I've too many options. To help me out, I impose restrictions on my options.
Starting A New Project
Today I get to grips with a new project. This is the one of the more exciting parts of my job... and possibly the scariest!
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 …
A Week of Research and Development with Slunglow
Having just returned last Sunday from a week of research and development with the Slunglow team, I've had time to reflect on how the week went for me in terms of productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, those sorts of things. Winter Break We stayed in St. Aygulf on the South Coast of France, the French Riviera, just …
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The Usefulness of a Chord Progression
It's verrrry difficult to copyright a short chord progression, say, of four chords or thereabouts. In fact it's impossible. Having a music composing mental block? Go find a chord progression from your favourite piece of music...
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.
Trailer Podcast: Beyond The Front Line
Beyond The Front Line - Trailer (01:46) [audio:BFLPodcastAd.mp3] Click on the player to hear the trailer podcast for Beyond The Front Line, a outdoors installation theatre show produced by Slung Low in association with The Lowry Theatre. It's playing 7th-17th October 2009 and is shaping up to be an unforgettably epic theatrical experience with performance, movement, lights, sound, video projection and pyrotechnics.
27 Tips for Focus and Concentration
Having trouble focusing? Getting distracted and lacking concentration? Follow these tips to get you back on track... Avoid Distractions Turn off twitter, email, facebook, IM, browserTurn off television audio and mobile phone (i know i know! harsh!)Schedule time(s) to check the above Plan your Time Write your To Do list for the day then schedule …
Film Music Composing – Ten Tips for Starting Up In Business
Just a few points for starting up in the film music business… quite a few of which I wish someone had shared with me when I first started out. Register as self-employed no later than 3 months after you've made money from a music commission or track sale.Decide whether you'll trade under your own name …
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Sound Mixing Techniques for Online Web Audio
This is what I've discovered specifically for mixing sound acceptibly for delivery as audio online via website.