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.
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Musical River
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 Fade-Ins
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 Fade-Ins
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 tells us what!
March Fade-Ins
More daily musical and other sound treats from the month of March.
Song Stories: Spring Moon
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
Songs Of The Calder
River music merriment and enthusiastic new songs with Year 6 at St. Michael’s C of E Academy in Flanshaw, Wakefield.
February Fade-Ins
30-40 second sound snippets of the musical things I get up to during February.
Sea to Source.
Year 6 are learning about physical geography with their class teachers. To support this we composed some musical rivers in their first ever music lessons with Cheryl, exploring features of rivers such as tributaries, confluence, meanders, estuaries, waterfalls and lakes.
January Fade-ins
It is my intention during 2015 to do something creative each day. As I am principally concerned in my work with music and sound, this will feature in the snippets or fade-ins that I share with you on this blog.