I'm the kind of person who loves to work towards a goal. Having an end date in sight and breaking down a task to ensure that I meet that deadline is the best way for me to be productive. So during November I really enjoyed working on sketching the rain, even though it was stressful at [...]
The flat's a mess. Washing up and dirty clothes sit neglected in haphazard piles. My to-dos have extended to a frighteningly long list. But it is finished. The final length of my NaNoWriMo2017 project is sixty-three minutes and twenty-eight seconds. I passed my goal by over three minutes! *cue party-poppers and victory dancing* Of course, [...]
Okay guys, just a very short post today because I'm spending as much time as possible finishing my NaNoWriMo project. I'm so close! I've got about ten minutes left to edit and then I'm going to go back and re-edit parts that I'm not happy with. Unfortunately, today and tomorrow I've got quite a lot [...]
So, here's what my progress looks like on day 22: I've still got a lot of editing to do, but all of the pieces are mapped out so I'm not panicking too much (not as much as last week anyway!). My most recent finished piece for this project was a bit of a surprise...the end [...]
It's 17th November...thirteen days to go and here's what my NaNoWriMo chart looks like: That's a whole lot of music to edit and record in thirteen days. The lag is partly because of my days suddenly getting busy (as they sometimes do when you're freelancing) and partly because of technical difficulties which meant that when [...]
So I appear to be writing the soundtrack for a horror film... That's the kind of music emerging from this little experiment. Have a listen to this week's sneak peek to see what I mean: You'll be happy to know that I've planned some less creepy pieces as well! I've made a chart to help [...]
As a lot of you already know, every November NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) takes place. The aim is to write a whole novel in November...that's 50,000 words in a month. I've tried this a couple of times and never succeeded. But then, I'm not a writer of words - I'm a writer of music. [...]
As this is published, I will be at the European Barbershop Convention watching other choruses perform and preparing to compete with my own chorus. So, what better day to talk about barbershop than today? Barbershop is not the most popular musical genre. I think the general impression is of a quartet of men in funny [...]
"Does it matter if a piece of music is unrecognisable when played on a different occasion?" This is a question I was asked by Rachel Pugh, who I met at a 'Blogging for creative freelances' FEU training session. As usual, when I mentioned graphic scores there were many different reactions from curiosity to complete confusion. [...]
Even if you've never heard of the waterphone, you've probably heard it. It's that eerie echo in the sound track of a horror film, sending shivers up your spine. In reality, it's not scary - but it is a pretty fantastic instrument! Invented by Richard Waters in 1968, the waterphone can be played in many [...]
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