I have had the absolute pleasure of writing some music to accompany the new children's book by Melinda Syzmanik - 'The Song of the Kauri'. This is a beautiful story. Definitely a book worth picking up and sharing with your kids! I will share the music after the official launch of the book on August [...]
Category: Music
Sonic Art Installation
I recently designed a sonic art installation piece called '#tinyelephants'. This work is a soundscape accompanied by a large printing of this photo: The originally purpose for this piece was to be observed in the context of a looping installation. The sonic art element can be heard here: #tinyelephants from Jeremy Mayall on Vimeo.
Country-Folk-Remix
Recently I have been working on a couple of remix projects. One for jazz-fusion band 'Subject 2 Change' featuring staff from the Otago Music Department. The other is a couple of tracks from the album 'The Stone Soup Sessions' by John Egenes. Drawing from the stems available on the remix site John has, I selected [...]
Premiere of New Dance Piece
Recently I have been working on a collaborative dance piece with the Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance Louise Potiki Bryant, and Rua McCallum This short video work will be premiered with live dance performance elements at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum on this coming Saturday, 21st June. Following that, a video only version of the [...]
Seaward Moments
About a month ago I drove down to Invercargill to record in the Seaward Bush Reserve with woodwind maestro Adam Page. The recordings are part of a new album I am working on, to be released later in the year, but as part of the recording we did an extra track that is now available [...]
Step Higher Award
Recently, I was lucky enough to be awarded the Step Higher Award from the University of Waikato. This leadership award will send me, with 3 other Hillary Scholars to Nepal to explore the work of the Himalayan Trust and the things that Sir Edmund Hillary has done in that part of the world. It is [...]
Imaginary Communication No.5
Am in the midst of working on a new cross-disciplinary multimedia piece for the Sir Edmund Hillary Programme to be premiered at an event in August. Slowly managing to convert ideas from the poem into musical arrangements to get things ready for when the rehearsals start. While I continue working on that, here is a [...]
Recording in Nature
Still busily working away on various projects... a couple of experimental films, an album of instrumental music, an orchestral piece, a couple of multimedia/theatre pieces and anything else life throws my way! It is an exciting time - loving the creative work. On the past weekend I spent a lot of time out in the [...]
Princesses and pianos
Another quick update, still furiously working away on the phd. I believe the end is in sight... I hope so! I am also working on a piece for four pianos, a piece for guitar, some solo instrument pieces, and a couple of new larger scale theatrical pieces (more details to come soon). In the meantime, [...]
Suburban Wires and Cosmic Outlaws
Another new music update! This time more music composed with Chris Lam Sam for The Scorelocks Collective. After composing the music for two films in the 48hour film fest (one in Auckland and Wellington) we also had the time to put together a couple of extra pieces, for no other reason other than enjoying [...]
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