Blog – Page 9 – Heather Fenoughty

24 February 201719 January 2024

Theatre: Flood, Partus, and Late Nights in the Studio

Composing Music for Theatre with A Hot Chocolate In The Music Studio

I’ve been working late evenings this week to get two theatre project scores out the door: Flood, a show about the end of the world as we know it, is in production *right now this very second* by Slung Low; and Partus, a heartwarming and honest show about childbirth in all its bloody glory.

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16 January 201718 February 2022

New Year, New Work

Before I go headlong into burying my cortex in Flood music, for the next week or so I'm creating a few sound and music elements for two new projects: a mobile game and an online educational product, both of which will hopefully (touch wood) lead to similar work later down the line. A lot of my work …

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12 January 20172 February 2024

Happy New Year 2017, The Year That Hull Floods!

Happy New Year! How are your resolutions going? Politics is proving pretty disturbing at the moment so I'm burying my head in the sand work for now... and for the foreseeable, as 2017 is fairly solidly booked up work-wise already, which is a relief in unstable economic times, and also so that I can legitimately ignore …

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10 November 201618 February 2022

It Happened Here and Writing for the Sake Of It

It Happened Here is a Slung Low audio/installation adventure set in Holbeck, Leeds, which opened in August 2016. It Happened Here was a surprisingly freeing project to work on; usually my work is underscoring dialogue or action, either as live theatre or onscreen, and synchronisation with these events is a high priority - synchronisation of tone, emotion, pace, volume and …

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10 August 20162 February 2024

Two New Shows In Leeds and a Chattering Monkey

For the next month or so I'm working on two new pieces of theatre in Leeds. They're completely unrelated, but my gigs do have a tendency to clump geographically, as random things are apt to. I try not to read anything into it but my irrational neo-cortex doesn't half like inferring deep meaning into patterns where there …

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21 July 201621 March 2022

Rest, Reset, Regroup, Recharge

The evening concert for the National Commemoration of the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme on 1st of July went to plan and was well-received. Phew! So right now, for me, is all about taking the time to rest and recharge the batteries. To be honest, I took a couple of days off directly …

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2 June 201631 March 2022

National Commemoration of the Battle of The Somme

I'm in the middle of composing the music for a small section of the concert that will commemorate the First World War Battle of the Somme in Heaton Park, Manchester, in the evening of 1st July. The concert will feature a children's choir, the Halle Orchestra, Lemn Sissay reading a new poem commissioned for the …

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19 April 20162 February 2024

How This Introvert Learned to Love Being In A Live Performance – 15 Minutes Live 2016

15 Minutes Live by Slung Low, which played this year at The Holbeck (previously Holbeck Working Men's Club), Leeds, was an awful lot of fun. More than I was expecting! I'm trying to pick apart why, and here are my thoughts. Is it just that I'm older and wiser, I'm working with friends, I'm far …

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10 March 201626 January 2022

Birthing Partus – Writing Music for Devised Theatre

black and white image of vintage condenser microphone for voice

January was all about Third Angel's Partus and in February I worked on the preliminary score for Red Star's latest 3D animation. An excellent, varied and challenging start to the year in all the right ways. I'm now starting to think about the latest edition of 15 Minutes Live - on at The Holbeck, Leeds, 10th …

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15 December 201517 February 2022

Saving Christmas Penguins, Theatrical Soundtracks and Other News

It's turning out to be rather a lovely end to 2015 - Both Emergency Story Penguin and 59 Minutes to Save Christmas are playing concurrently at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. It's a bit surreal to see billboard advertisements for it dotted around the city centre but I'm attempting to deal with it without squealing …

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