On Sunday afternoon (4th oct) at 2pm I will be presenting a concert of live multimedia at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum. It will feature some brilliantly talented local performers - Nick Hollamby, Ian Chapman, John Egenes, and Sophie Morris. If you are in town come along. Sound the Ocean (a Hamilton based band) has [...]
Category: Music
‘Then we fall’ and other announcements
I am currently working on the editing and mixing of a new album recorded/composed/improvised in real time in the Albany Street Studios by myself, Chris Lam Sam, Nick Granville, Rob Burns, and Robbie Craigie. The session was engineered by Mike Holland. While working through those tracks I found this tune recorded at sound check while [...]
Silent Image
As part of a project Mike Holland was running with his studio production third year class at Otago University, he asked me if I would like to get something recorded in the studio. So I wrote this piece, 'Silent Image' - a kind of minimalism meets funk groove thing... lots of tuned percussion, synths and [...]
Recent Releases
Just in case you missed them, here is a collection of the recordings I have released in the past year! Film soundtracks and a 'poppy' back catalogue thing:
Recordings and new albums
In the past few days I have been working with various people on the creation, composition, and recording of over 3 hours of new original music. Creative productivity is a marvelous and rewarding thing. Here are a few pics from some time in the studio. Along with working on a collection of songs for [...]
Concerts!
On Tuesday 4th of August I gave a concert called 'Imagined Landscapes'. It was a collection of music I have composed, most new, some revisits of older stuff. Lots of multimedia things, and some multi-sensory elements exploring smell and taste. Sharron Bennett of Sharron Bennett Photography took a bunch of pictures of the concert... you [...]
They Will Be The Colour
My new album with Julia Booth is available now. Get your digital copy here. It costs about the same as a good cup of coffee, but will last you much longer! All funds made from the sale of this album will go towards the recording costs of a new collaborative project with Julia! So if [...]
Concerts and Recordings
Things continue to be busy... but rewardingly so. Working on music with Chris Lam Sam, a performance workshop with the NZTrio, collaborative discussions with food scientists and perfumers, a trip to Nelson for the Composers Workshop, and collaborations with Otago Arts Fellows. Also coming up: IMAGINED LANDSCAPES A concert of multimedia music at Marama Hall [...]
An update
It has been awhile... I always intend to keep more regular blog posts, but things get in the way - mostly it's good things like getting caught up in the studio working on new music, so I can't really complain. Since last time there has been a bunch of stuff that I thought I would [...]
Films, Soundtracks and Brain Music
This makes for a varied update. There have been so many things going on recently. Working on a bunch of new music with Chris Lam Sam Writing a whole lot of music for two 48hr Film Fest teams (one in Auckland and one in Wellington - working remotely from Dunedin!) Working on some new music [...]
Jeremy Mayall 