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Category: Music to listen to
Frontiers Festival
We are up on the Frontiers Festival Website! Our concert will be the first in a whole music festival dedicated… Read more Frontiers Festival
Expanded – These New Puritans
Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the last couple of sessions, but before we go into Christmas (and therefore eating-so-much-you-can’t-get-off-the-sofa mode)… Read more Expanded – These New Puritans
Listening material – Yesaroun’ Duo (Percussion & Saxophone)
Looking for Marimba & Saxophone duets, I stumbled upon this very interesting percussion and saxophone duo which equally focuses on… Read more Listening material – Yesaroun’ Duo (Percussion & Saxophone)
White Man Sleeps – Kevin Volans
‘The title ‘White Man Sleeps’ comes from a moment in nyanga panpipe music where the performers leave off playing their… Read more White Man Sleeps – Kevin Volans
Rhythm and Pulse: Louis Andriessen – Ende (1981)
Ende by Louis Andriessen 3 Things: Articulation also plays an important part in the piece, as it accents some of the… Read more Rhythm and Pulse: Louis Andriessen – Ende (1981)
Groove
When Kirsty asked me to write a bit about pulse and rhythm in the lead up to the next session,… Read more Groove
A Piece That Inspires Me – ‘No One Mourns the Wicked’ by Stephen Schwartz
Being a bit of a musical theatre geek, when asked to write about a piece that inspires me the incredible… Read more A Piece That Inspires Me – ‘No One Mourns the Wicked’ by Stephen Schwartz
Harrison Birtwistle: Silbury Air (pulse & rhythm)
Silbury Air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFAReXvYm7A About this piece and how he uses ‘pulse’ Birtwistle starts a simple repeating ‘pulse’ on an ‘E’… Read more Harrison Birtwistle: Silbury Air (pulse & rhythm)
Car Radio – twenty one pilots
What do you find (musically) interesting? What do you think this piece is about? How does the composer develop the… Read more Car Radio – twenty one pilots