Working with the Composer

I spent yesterday afternoon working with James Whittle, the composer for my 'Crows' short.  We got a rough recording finished which I'm really pleased with.  Hopefully sometime next week we'll have access to a proper studio to record the score properly!  After a long break away from the film its really great to be making progress again.

Meet The Composer: James Whittle

I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that James Whittle is producing the soundtrack for my current short, due to be completed by the end of next month.  James is an incredibly talented composer, instrumentalist and singer, and has just finished his degree in Music at the University of York.  James has worked on some fantastic projects and its an honour to have him on board, so draw the curtains, turn the lights down low, put on your best headphones and take a listen to one of his recent works, 'Violent Cannon'.

VIOLENT CANNON by James Whittle

Personal Notation Project Completed

Rather than reiterating what I've neatly typed up I'll post a link to the pdf on scribd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/47419979/Notation-Analysis-of-Bach-s-Prelude-No-1-846

In Summary

My younger brother (age 10) has recently started learning to play Bach’s Prelude No.1 on the piano. I asked him to follow a simple set of instructions, an algorithm of sorts, to investigate how, as a relatively naive musician, he interpreted the music:

Taking each note in turn:

1. listen to the note and the note that immediately preceeds it.
2. draw a pictogram which expresses how you feel regarding the preceeding note.
3. on the same piece of paper draw another pictogram relative to the first one, expressing the relative diference between the two notes.
4.  shape the ball of plasticine provided and place in on the grid in a way that expresses how you feel regarding the pair of notes.
5.  repeat

Again, check out the scribd link for the accompanying analysis- if you want a higher quality copy of the pdf for any reason give me a shout and I'll yousendit.