There are a few tools I use to start composing a piece. I might use a process that the music will go through and add notes to it, I might be inspired by an object and create a score around that or I might work around a certain musical motif. But one of my favourite [...]
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Rain gets in the way | WIP Wednesday
Sometimes WIP Wednesday is less about the progress you’ve made on a project and more about things getting in the way of finishing a project… Manchester is a very rainy city. I don’t mind it usually - I'm ginger and hot weather is not my friend - but when I’m trying to record things it’s [...]
WIP Wednesday
As anyone who knows me personally will know, I'm a knitter. My friends have all accepted that if I visit them I will inevitably produce a knitting project from my bag to work on while we're chatting. I like to take on big, complicated knitting projects - the kind that feel like a marathon of [...]
The Musicians of Henderson Street Neighbourhood
At the beginning of this year, Geli from Lingua Franca World Music Agency knocked on my door. She had an idea for an event using the ginnels (alleyways) around our street to encourage the local community to see them as more than just a rubbish dump! Flytipping is a big problem in Levenshulme (even the [...]
SHE together
On International Women's Day, I was part of a fantastic concert celebrating the work of female artists organised by the wonderful Collective 31. There were poems, visual art works, pottery and dance as well as music. After being the only female composer in most of the concerts I've been in outside of educational establishments, it [...]
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