Passages of Music I'd Rather Someone Else Had to Learn

A busy week with lots new music, and plenty of passages I’d rather someone else had to learn!

With regards to my coursework I have made huge progress on several pieces of music, as one has now ascended from just musical notation to an actual draft soundscape as I like to call it, in which all electronically reproducible elements I bounce to my production software, such as synths and midi parts along with any sound effects I intend to be part of the work, all as a test to see if the sounds blend well, and I am pleased to say that I am now much more excited than I already was about releasing this piece. Better still... here is a small demo of some of the synth sounds that will be used:

Synthesizers are an amazing compositional tool as they open up a whole world of creative potential for arranging music. I'd highly recommend that whatever your music practice is (if you have one) that you embrace such advancements in technology. It doesn't devalue traditional music practice in the way that many people make out, but shines as an individual entity. The study on timbre I am creating uses both traditional instruments and electronically produced sounds.

The indie soundtrack style piece I am co-writing is also beginning to take shape, I am pleased to say we have a storyboard to work to and a rough outline as to a musical structure. Spoiler alert, it does NOT end happily ever after.

This website has also received a considerable amount of TLC this week and it will continue to. However I hope that by next week though it will be in some fairly stable format.

With regards to work I am doing as part of my own practice, I am excited to say that a friend and colleague Alex Picard will be producing some of the folk tunes I have written, I am also experimenting with the possibility of incorporating this into an EP with slightly more varied musical language.

Additionally, I am giving the Neo-Classical side of things a little more love, and am finally writing a new piece in this style. I will update with more details on this next week once it has taken more shape.