"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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‘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 [...]
Recent projects
Times have been busy leading up to Christmas, but here is a quick update with some of the more recent things I have been doing. DV Bryant Trust 90th Celebration Film DV Bryant 90th Celebration Film: December 2014 from nimbus media on Vimeo. Lost Inside A track from an unused film score for a [...]
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 [...]
Reconstructions
As part of my phd work I writing, reading and refining a lot of text. But I also have been thinking about, and revisiting, my music. As part of that process, I have been working on a reconstruction of my piece "The Foggy Field". This is still a work in progress, but I thought I [...]
The Long White Cloud (video)
This is the final video from the concert recordings. At the concert this piece was performed under the title "They say a word is dead". But after some discussions, and a long timing thinking about possibilities... the piece was re-worked, re-arranged and had some new parts written to make the piece better suited to support [...]
The Foggy Field (video)
The next installment from the concert videos is here. Writing a piece like this is always fun, because being partly improvised - you know that there will be some stuff that will happen as expected, and then there will be somethings that happen in the moment that really stop you in your tracks. Working with [...]
J.Mayall – Concert Showcase/Live Recording
At the end of this week I am putting on a concert of original music that I have written over the past couple of years as part of my PhD. I have been exploring the possibilities of cross-genre hybridity in new music composition! The concert will take place on April 7th 2013 from 7:30pm in [...]
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