I’ve been meaning to write this blog for a few days. I’ve had lots of creative highs and lows since last Thursday. On Thursday I had a eureka moment for the end of the piece just before I left to pick up the kids from school. I quickly pasted the idea into Sibelius and sauntered […]
The Merry Lads of Ayr – blog 2
I’m always amazed that when writing faster music you have to write so many notes to make 1 minutes worth of music! As I’m writing a reel I’ve written loads and it’s still only at 1 min 30 secs… The idea is to stick to the theme and not write lots new stuff all the […]
The Merry Lads of Ayr
I’m writing a piece of music for the Distil Showcase on April 8th at the Stirling Tolbooth and I thought I would blog about my process of writing it. So I decided last week I would do this which gives me 2 weeks to come up with a concept and deliver ready for rehearsal. Not […]
Distil Scratch Day September 2014
Distil held our first Scratch Day in LoFi Studios, Glasgow on September 16th 2014. Five composers Neil McDermott, Alasdair Paul, Grainne Brady, Emma Tomlinson and Tina Rees wrote/arranged a piece for our distil ensemble featuring drums. The idea of the day was that the composers scored music for drums using Dave Milligan’s drum tutorial. The drums […]
Distil Showcase 2014 – The photos!
The Distil Showcase 2014 sounded great but it also LOOKED great! Here are photos from the evening by Mike Guest + some by me – Simon Thoumire. Have a listen https://www.flickr.com/photos/footstompin1/sets/72157644625719512/
An enjoyable day in Tigerstyle’s studio
I had been thinking about how you make a ‘electronic’ dance track for a while. I was speaking to Mike Vass and he said that this is something he would be interested in so I got in touch with Asian DJs Tigerstyle who had taught an electronic Distil a few years back and asked if […]