I've been keeping this one quiet because it's a present for Yubi... Here's a new album for The Mortal Path! Each piece is based on one of the characters (see if you can guess which one's which!) You can download the whole album for free on my Bandcamp but if you want to support me [...]
The long-promised recording of Caution. You are approaching the end... is here! This was originally supposed to be performed in March but it snowed, so the concert was cancelled. However, Gavin kindly recorded a version for me to upload. I hope you enjoy!
Head on over to the time-trace-place website to read my post about a meeting between the collaborators on our time is different here... project. It was an interesting discussion, but having not yet visited Talliston Gemma and Gary were at a slight disadvantage! Explaining how time and place become distorted once you're inside is not easy...
Listening to music always conjures up strong visual images for me. I don’t mean in the way that it might for someone with synesthesia, where a certain note or chord might be a certain colour. It’s more abstract than that. For example, the third movement of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony gives me a very clear mental [...]
From live painting to poetry, Collective31's SHEtogether concert was a fantastic event of works by female artists. Like last year, it was wonderful to be among so many talented women. In the majority of performances of my works, the other composers are all male (and usually pre-1900). However, this year the tide seems to be [...]
As anyone who follows me on Facebook or Twitter will know, this Friday is the sheTOGETHER 2018 concert! I'm very excited to hear all the fantastic works by other female artists and I hope that, if you can make it, you come along and support us. To give you a little taster, I'm going to tell [...]
Last week, I shared one of my WIPs with you all. This week, you get to see the finished product! It is composed for flautist Gavin Osborn, who will be giving the world premiere performance at the Congleton festival on Saturday 3rd March (more details coming soon!). Here is the first page of 'Caution. You [...]
Composition deadlines have coincided with a boost in my instrumental teaching...which means I've got scraps of paper full of ideas hastily scribbled between lessons. It also means that this will be another short post. I just wanted to share something that I've been working on. This is a piece for flautist Gavin Osborn. I'm experimenting [...]
Just a quick post today because I'm swimming in deadlines for compositions! (A nice, if stressful, way to be) Yesterday, in order to keep up with everything I need to finish, I found myself composing in a Morrisons in Eccles between music tuition. I got some interesting looks, but I nearly completed a whole page! [...]
A few weeks ago I travelled to Essex to see Talliston House & Gardens, a possible venue for the time-trace-place project that I am part of (more details on this project will be coming very soon). Talliston is extraordinary - each room takes you to a different time and place. It took twenty-five years for the owner, John [...]
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