“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 [...]
Tag: Music
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 [...]
Music I’ve been listening to vol.1
As part of this blog I want to be able to share some of the music that I have been listening to that is inspiring me in my own music making. And I can't get enough of Snarky Puppy... Snarky Puppy "is somewhere between a garage band and a collective, with over 25 players in regular [...]
Takemitsu on composing
"As a composer - not an inventor - I don't need patents. Things I think of must have been thought of by others already. That is why it is fitting that I be a composer, since I am not concerned about thinking thoughts that no one else might ever think. I just want to make [...]
New Website and Blog
Hello eventual readers... I had always meant to keep my other websites updated - but it is one of those things that regularly goes by the wayside. So I have decided that having a blog that I can easily update (on any computer, on my phone etc) might mean that I keep things up to [...]
Jeremy Mayall 