I haven't been as regular with these posts as I would have liked... but things happen and there is always something that gets left behind. I think for 2013 I will try to keep this more regular - more content, more recipes, more music... more of the good stuff that makes life interesting. But in [...]
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Lots going on!
At this time of year things seem to always get really hectic - christmas madness, end of year functions, last minute jobs etc. and this year hasn't been different. I have been taking on the role of full-time stay-at-home dad while my lovely wife is helping out at her old work during the crazy season, [...]
While Wolf Sleeps – EP1
As part of a goal to continue to increase my creative output, and also as a desire to have a escape for my mind from working on my suite for viola and cello. I decided to put together a bunch of uptempo tunes that were just for fun. Not trying to re-create any specific sound/style [...]
Into the Nocturnal Sunshine
For the past couple of years I have been asked to perform at the Waikato University Blues Awards. These awards recognition students who have excelled in either sports or creative and performing arts to national and international levels. It is an honour to be selected to receive one of these awards - and to perform [...]
To Entertain a Wolf
Earlier this year I was asked to write a piece for string quartet by my friend Adam Maha. His quartet was going to be competing in some competitions, and they wanted to play a brand new piece. So, I thought this would be a good chance to add another piece to my composition portfolio, and [...]
Tracking Forward – live performance
Here is some more of what I have been working on... This piece Tracking Forward was written as part of my PhD portfolio. It was written for the violist Adam Maha who was involved throughout its creation, giving me guidance as to what is and isn't possible, and how to get the best out of the instrument... [...]
Days filled with music
My days are either filled with looking after my boy or working on my PhD. Luckily, my PhD is a creative practice based portfolio/thesis that involves me composing a lot of new original music, and then writing about the music I have written. (Somewhere in that process I also get to perform that music with some [...]
An unknown Superhero
I have the distinct pleasure of being involved with the creation of some parts of a new superhero story. This superhero is 'LAPWING' - This hero has been created by the people behind a new feature film that is being filming in New Zealand - Penny Black. "Instead of quoting existing movies in the dialogue of [...]
Eno on sound
“One of the interesting things about pop music is that you can quite often identify a record from a fifth of a second of it. You hear the briefest snatch of sound and know, ‘Oh, that’s “Good Vibrations”’, or whatever. A fact of almost any successful pop record is that its sound is more of [...]
The Birth (a performance piece)
I am currently in the process of finalising the video of my most recent composition for my PhD portfolio... it is sometimes a long process, but totally worth it to have a visual as well as aural record of my work. My PhD portfolio is aiming to explore the possibilities cross-genre hybridity in new music [...]
Jeremy Mayall 