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 [...]
Tag: remix
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
Subject2Change – new remix
One of the recent projects I have been working on is a remix for the jazz-fusion band 'Subject2Change'. The band has a new album to be released later in the year that I helped working on the final mixing process. As some really early promo for the album Rob Burns has suggested I share the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Banglade$h – LEAN – Remix
As a bit of a break from all of this PhD composition I put together a remix for the band Banglade$h. Their track 'Lean' is such an awesome catchy tune. It was an absolute pleasure to do this remix - even if it was a bit difficult working out where to start because I liked [...]
Lots going on!
At this time of year things seem to always get really hectic - christmas madness, end of year functions, last minute jobs etc. and this year hasn't been different. I have been taking on the role of full-time stay-at-home dad while my lovely wife is helping out at her old work during the crazy season, [...]
