Monthly Archives: August 2010

20th Aug 2010

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Just a breif update post.

My friend Lee Mottram will be playing in a concert on the 7th of September at St Marys Church Tenby. He’ll be performing a piece I wrote for him a few years ago called Kinetic, which was commissioned by the Young Composer of Dyfed organisation. You can find the facebook event here.

To Shine, a film I wrote the score for, has recently been selected for the fd4w film festival.

And finally, I noticed the other day that an animation I worked on about a year ago is now available on vimeo. It’s a fun little video called The Unsucksessful Vampire:

(watch on vimeo)

Duelling Carls

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Want to imitate some Alvin Lucier from the comfort of your own home?! – There’s an app for that!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7mQhSZRgM]

Ok, a cartoon character imitating sounds in a high pitched voice isn’t exactly the same as Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room, but I thought it was a fun comparison. (listen here)

Aberystwyth, Zimmer and Swooshs

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Last week I spent some time at Aberystwyth MusicFest which I’ve been to many times before and is always lots of fun.

I also got around to seeing Inception a few days ago, which I felt managed to live up to the hype far more comfortably than Christopher Nolan‘s previous film. The music in the film was generally lots of loud stomping fun! (some nice background info here) The most surprising thing about the underscore was simply how much of it there was. In a future repeat viewing I’ll have to get a stopwatch out and time how much of the film is accompanied by music, because at the time it felt almost continuous.

Last month I also finished working on a short film called Therapy for Beginners made by Will Scothern. The score ended up having lots of gloopy drones and swooshy noises. For a very small taste, here’s the shortest cue of the film, just a few seconds of swoosh: