As the summer heat no doubt kicks in, I shall be continuing to document the musical things I get up to during August, and will share the composer’s day to day creations!
August 2015 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
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July 2015 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
July has come bursting in with storms and fierce sunshine. Let’s hope the music is just as dramatic with these aural snippets of my life as a freelance composer.
June 2015 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
June has burst upon us and hopefully with it there’ll be lots of new musical ideas bursting too. This is a sound and music diary of the day-to-day life of a freelance composer.
Song Stories: Look Back!
Categories: Song Stories
Composing a song for some Year 6 pupils as they prepare to leave the primary school part of their lives and move on.
Winter Wear – River Wear Stories
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Music Teaching Activities (Primary), Song Stories
Using the River Wear in Northeast England as inspiration, a primary school and I created a musical journey from the North Pennines down to the North Sea, stopping off to explore on the way.
Musical River
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Primary)
Using a river for musical inspiration has proved to be a fruitful tactic when composing for myself or with a classful or schoolful of children!
May 2015 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
Now spring is here, no doubt new compositions will be bursting into life. You can track their progress here during the month of May.
April 2015 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
March was one of the busiest months on record for this composer. I wonder what April will bring. Here will be 30 fade-ins that tell us what!
March 2015 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
More daily musical and other sound treats from the month of March.
Song Stories: Spring Moon
Categories: Song Stories
Spring moon. A sickle. Tides ebb and flow. Salt. Silver. Still sand and water. I set this haiku by David Keen to music in four different ways to accommodate performers of various musical skills and confidences
