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Tag Archives: Creative process
Anniversary music – A Lot of Light Music
This month is the second anniversary of Urban Skyline on Bandcamp and I hope to release an album of Light Music on the label in the coming weeks Continue reading
The artists’ dilemma
Now the artist is an enterprise
Behind a company is the disguise Continue reading
Posted in Music Composition and Performance
Tagged artists, arts support, Creative process, Culture, Enterprise, poetry
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I like to compose standing up
During the past month I have been working on a couple of commissions for percussion ensemble. One brief was for five players using a limited number of instruments with an idea of the performance experience of each percussionist specified. I … Continue reading
First and last – recognising the ISMN
Cartoon by Andy Pitchforth Around 20 years ago I invested in the International Standard Music Numbers or ISMN (for full details please see http://www.ismn-international.org/ ). The ISMN is similar to an ISBN for a books but specifically designed for notated … Continue reading
Posted in Instrumental teaching, Music Composition and Performance
Tagged Adolph Sax, Andy Pitchforth, Art Exhibition, Brass Quintet, Cartoon, Composing, Composition Process, Creative process, ISMN, Music Education, Music publishing, Peter Birkby, Publishing, Richard Ingham, Saxophone
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Introductions and links
In recent weeks I have made more connections around the world through various channels and for those new acquaintances, as well as for the benefit of more established colleagues, hello and this is what I’m up to. If you read … Continue reading
A change of…
anything can help with creativity, for me travelling, visiting and experiencing different situations inspires many ideas. Intermittent blogs at the moment as I am visiting different parts of England and only a short hello today as there is so much … Continue reading
Significant Birthdays?
How the mind changes over the years, couldn’t wait to be 21, worried about being 30 or 40 but there were very few apparent transformations at these milestones. 50 was very different, I started to look at what I had … Continue reading
Posted in Music Composition and Performance
Tagged Alan Yentob, Creative process, Edmund De Waal, Imagine, Over 50s
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