Editing music and creating music video is easier when you understand music! Creating any music video is a mix of project management, technical and musical skills. These are two videos I planned, shot and edited for Generation Jones, a very talented duo in Gloucestershire, UK. Following much valuable discussion with the band, I shot the […]
Video for education & PR This was part of a set of six videos created for the LSO from a mix of archive SD material gathered by the LSO and HD material and interviews shot by Alison Harmer, who is an experienced Early Years music professional and leads many cutting-edge projects herself. That, and her […]
After struggling with the shameless ways some people promote their work online, I have come to accept that there is a legitimate place for promoting myself. I speak as someone with a very British reluctance to do anything in public that I didn’t deem perfect, and over the years (my Carolan’s Dream video in 2006 […]
Recently I visited Derby Children’s Hospital for some practical music-making as part of the Opus Music in Healthcare course. Within the Children’s areas there is plenty of visually very witty design to make the environment as fun and stress-free as a hospital can be. For example, the big lifts are decorated floor to ceiling. Go […]
Fantastically pleased to have won a cup! This was in the Adult class for people who make their living from / largely from music, and I spent quite a while considering various options for pieces, because my music is often either my own arrangement, or pieces I’ve written, or pieces by others that I’ve learned […]
This extract was extremely influential in my thinking about how folk music differs from formal music I only today found this piece of paper again, and googled a phrase from it, thus was able to find that it is part of a paper by Teshome H. Gabriel. Actually, he was looking at Third World Cinema, […]