2015
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Exhibition Review: ‘John Wolseley – Heartlands and Headwaters’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
Of all the cultural highlights of 2015 I could choose to relive, this chance stumbling across an exhibition in Melbourne is most worthy. I was on tour there after a busy summer, and not in the most refreshed frame of mind. John Wolseley’s Heartlands and headlands was a well placed tonic that was to change the course…
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Jórvíkekkoer
The Ryedale Festival opens today up in North Yorkshire. In anticipation of the appearance of my group ‘æðelfrìth’ next week on Friday 24th, this is a synopsis of an original piece that I have written. It is one of four new pieces that will get either a world or UK premiere in our programme. When we were asked…
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The p-Lur project – Part 4: it’s all coming to a head
The distinctive feature of the Scandinavian Lur is undoubtedly it’s dimpled head. This is the bit that makes it recognisable as a symbol of ancient Denmark, and likens its appearance to something in the B&Q bathroom catalogue (where is the temperature control on this thing?). I learned recently that these instruments are also known as a ‘gjallarhorn’, or…
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The p-Lur project – Part 3: Bending it like Brudevælte
It’s been a while since my last post on this topic, and that is because progress has been a little slow, and writing about it has had to come second to getting it finished! However, it is now near enough done and being played in rehearsals for the premiere of my new piece for æðelfrìth: brass quintet, being…
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Practising practice
This is a short summary of a presentation that I was privileged to be invited to give just over a month ago to some of my colleagues on the subject of managing practice. That is; the practice of practise. Apparently they found this collection of these ideas quite inspiring and motivational, so I have decided to share…
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How to train your 2nd cornets
As a busy summer of marching looms again, a fresh set of marches have found their way into the repertoire. This one, ‘Great Big David’, has a predictably Welsh theme to it, and features the tune ‘David of the White Rock’ in the trio section. Tidy. Nothing remarkable so far. It’s a march. It’s Welsh. Woop de doo. So…
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The p-Lur project – Part 2: Raspberry Pi
I’ve spent most of today blowing raspberries down a piece of pipe. This is actually what I do for a living, but today it has mostly sounded like that was what I was doing. Normally I’d hope it sounds a bit more like music. Today, it has all been a bit different: Since the first post on this project,…
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The p-Lur project – part 1
This is my first post on what will be an insight into my latest project; the p-Lur. Since demand for Lurs is probably not that great, this is more of an experiment for personal satisfaction than any kind of commercial venture. However, I am currently writing a Nordic-inspired piece for my group æðelfrìth which I hope…
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