Converging Paths: The Music
By popular request, here are a few samples of the music from Converging Paths.
The Music’s Not Finished ‘Til It’s Finished
Next week I head to Singapore. Slung Low is currently in the throes of making a show, Pandemic, for the Singapore Arts Festival. We're out there for three weeks; the show is on during the third week. Can. Not. Wait. Can't afford the airline ticket over there? The online journey begins here: HarnessYourDemons.com. Don't miss …
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Working With Real Live Musicians
I'm in the middle of writing the score for Converging Paths: Darkness at the Sun Court. Epic does not even begin to describe it. I have a 24 piece choir and am having a little too much fun than one should really have in their day job composing songs and underscore for the show.
Music for Ebooks?
Well, why not? In a world with a constant drive for added value, could the lure of a deliberately chosen or even composed soundtrack be the decision making option when buying your latest ebook? Could it actually enhance the reading experience? I noticed on a thread on a certain social networking site that someone commented …
11 Lessons I Learned from Scoring Mapping The City
...by Slung Low. As is usually (= always) the case, the production schedule for Mapping The City was quite... tight. Some of these lessons I’ve learned from previous shows and have been confirmed and strengthened through the experience of scoring Mapping The City; some are brand new or unique to this show. And all were …
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How To Make Virtual Instruments Sound More Realistic
Short answer: Think like an instrumental player. This is just a thought I had as I was tweaking a string part I’d written for a new piece. Sampled, sequenced strings sound fake when they’re 'perfect'. I’ve already written about introducing imperfection to humanise an instrumental part. In order to make an acoustic (or even electro-acoustic) …
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Music for Video Games: Miasma for Xbox
Miasma is the new Xbox Indie game from ESP Games, featuring no fewer than three tracks from yours truly. This is fairly momentous for me as I think it's the first time my compositions have appeared in a commercially available video game. Yay! New page in the credits section methinks... Anyways, the game is coool! …
How To Write Shed Loads of Music in Very Little Time
I have just this very day finished a full draft of musical score for Anthology, an epic series of shows produced by the indefatigable Slung Low in association with the Liverpool Everyman. Wooh!
From the Slung Low site:
7 routes. 7 stories. Told in different places on different paths in Liverpool. Take your chance, take your seat and discover which story chooses you.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not condoning quantity over quality. But sometimes needs must as the devil drives, and quite frankly you didn't realise at the time what you signed up for... that the deadline would be quite so tight.
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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.
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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