I was thrilled to speak about production music (also known as ‘library music’) on a panel called Production Values last year at Sensoria Festival. I joined Steve Rosie, who's Senior Music Consultant at De Wolfe and Matt Wanstall from the Musician’s Union.
I want to show people how they can make more sustainable choices in their work-from-home offices and studios. I truly do believe there are very few jobs that can't be made more sustainable. Here are 8 areas to consider in your home office or studio to support your career without destroying the planet.
Networking has been weird in the last year or so, hasn't it. At a time when jobs in some media became more thin on the ground - so networking became even more important to freelancers in these industries. It seems I'm a bit in the minority in that I don't mind networking, per se, that …
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Have you joined my newsletter? If so, you may have noticed in my celebration of International Women's Day I attempted to be as inclusive as possible by using any and all words I've seen bandied about on the socials when referring to women. But here's the catch - terms like womxn, womyn, and woman-identifying are not the enlightened and educated terms I thought they were. I should have just said WOMEN.
There is no magic bullet to getting a foothold into this industry… not unless you consider hard work, lots of rejection, or a healthy bent toward self-determination a “magic bullet”. Is there an easy way in? The answer, as with most things in life, is “no”. Most things that are worth doing don’t come easy. …
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At the start of the year someone said to me they thought I was the most organised person they knew. Which was very nice of them, thank you kind person. After that, it totally went to my head and I had an idea back in May to do a post on being organised, or, rather, …
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Or What Would Mr Spock Do? I'm going to come right out and say it. I think emotions are key to business. They are a precious tool that should never, ever be ignored. They are the central line of dialogue between your higher brain functions and your subconscious, the route to your creative well. And …
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A little while back I had a lovely chat with Leila Johnston of Hack Circus to talk, amongst other intriguing topics, about musically manipulating people (with consent, obvs).
The year is flying by. April is speeding to a close as I finish up the bulk of the music on a very cool project for the V&A Museum down in London. More about this challenging experience in later posts nearer the time the exhibition will open... I'm starting work on a new feature film, …
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Nobody likes networking. It is a fact. I have yet to meet a single person who says, "You know what, I just LOVE working the room! All these people I don't know, so many faces, so little time, let's DO THIS." More likely it's, "I hate these events... they don't work... I've never gotten a …
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