I can't begin to count how many times I've heard a friend, in response to a piece of music or film or some other piece of art, proclaim, "It's rubbish," (or use much stronger language 😉 ) when actually what they mean is, "I don't like it." That bugs me a bit. Don't get me …
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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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Had to share this blog post about creativity and the myths that surround it: Myths about Creativity | Tickled By Life, by Shalu Wasu. Go have a read... then come back here if you like. 🙂 I particularly enjoyed reading his attitudes about the application of creativity to all aspects of life, not just so-called …
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As of writing, today is going to be a pretty typical day for me. As in hectic. And exactly the kind of work I like. 😉 Although composing is now my bread and butter, I also do some other work to keep the roof over my head. Today is a pretty good example of how …
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'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.
This is Day 5 for me at the Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak Plantation, Florida. I'm here as composer with a great bunch of artists from Punchdrunk Theatre developing ideas for their epic, immersive, experiential, theatre adaptation of Woyzeck.
Hi - and welcome to my new blog! My first post comes on one of the last few performance dates of 'Helium' by Slung Low, performing at The Barbican in London to riotous acclaim (4 stars in The Guardian, same in Metro), and the news that I'll be off to Florida in October with the …
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