Here's a link to an article I wrote for SCORECast Online's awesome new site on 'diversifying' your job description to get more work: One Man Band. This starts a regular column for me called Composer's Tips and Tricks. They've also a podcast which is seriously useful and entertaining stuff. SCORECast Online is fast becoming a …
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It's all been a quiet on the blogging front in the last month, and, for this, I apologise. It's because it's been busy busy busy here! I've been working on developing the upcoming shows Beyond the Front Line and They Only Come At Night trilogy with Slung Low, and scoring and sound designing a gorgeous short film …
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I'm very pleased to announce... I'm the Composer-in-Residence for the Arthur C. Clarke Awards! Very exciting. You may have noticed the science fiction theme creeping a little into this blog of late (ok. a lot. a whole massive amount), and this is why. The Arthur C. Clarke Awards 2009 were held on Wednesday 29th March …
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I'm continuing this series of tips for composing music with a post about imperfection. I've been trawling through the ol' music back catalogue to add to the new Music Store. It's been a real trip down memory lane, listening to tracks I created when fresh out of music college. (Edit: As of August 2010 the …
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So here's today's easy-to-implement tip: suspensions. Suspensions are an incredibly easy way of adding colour to a series of chords. At their simplest, suspensions 'suspend' one note of a chord over into and replace the nearest note in the next chord (usually the chord's middle note, or 3rd), and then 'resolve' to the note it …
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Today's tip is all about the 'pedal note' or 'drone'. It's really a very simple concept: a single, sustained note or tone. Pedal notes can be upper or lower. Upper pedal notes are high-pitched and are generally above any other movement of melody or harmony; lower pedal notes (or drones) are low-pitched - in the …
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'Moth To A Flame' won a Certificate of Honourable Mention at BAFTA for the Performance Short Film Awards. The evening went very well despite my usual trepidation at networking events (see my previous post 'What to do when you hate Networking'). As one of the shortlisted films, 'Moth to a Flame' was one of 12 …
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inspiration n stimulation or arousal of the mind, feelings, etc., to special or unusual activity or creativity the state or quality of being so stimulated or aroused someone or something that causes this state an idea or action resulting from such a state the act or process of inhaling; breathing in From English Collins Dictionary - …
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Beyond The Front Line is a new show by
Slunglow, currently in development and due to play at the Lowry, Manchester in October. Below is the new trailer...
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.
