"It Will Remember Itself" by Narrowing Weeks is now available! Narrowing Weeks is a collaborative project between: Jeremy Mayall (various keys and electronics), Chris Lam Sam (various keys), Nick Granville (guitar), Rob Burns (bass), Robbie Craigie (percussion). On one day we got together to make music. To communicate. To share ideas through sound. This album is a representation [...]
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New album and a short soundscape
In between furiously working away on finalising the score for the new "Amazing Universe" show at the Otago Museum Perpetual Guardian Planetarium (opens December 4th!), I have been preparing a new album for release (29/11/15) - that album is "it will remember itself" by Narrowing Weeks. Narrowing Weeks is a collaborative project with Chris Lam [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tropical Wetlands (Nature Documentary Soundtrack)
As part of the release of a range of projects I worked on last year here is a new album by The Scorelocks Collective. All this music was composed and performed by Chris Lam Sam and myself. It was created for a nature documentary exploring the tropical wetlands of Australia. The music is aiming for [...]
A new musical tradition
It seems a new musical tradition is being set in motion. This time, one year ago I was lucky enough to spent a couple of days with a group of great musicians (Chris Lam Sam, Nick Granville, Nick Tipping, Jeremy Badger, Adam Page) creating and co-composing the soundtrack to the movie - Penny Black. This movie is [...]
Mozart Fellow 2015
I am very excited to have been awarded the Mozart Fellowship at Otago University for a second year! This means I will get to spent 2015 engaging in full time creative work. It is an absolute privilege to have received this position. You can read the announcement here: http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago078803.html Having another year to focus on composition [...]
