New electronic music performance has gone public – pleasing responses
We are most pleased and relieved that our new live electronic music performance with video/visual accompaniment seems to have been most successful. The new tracks I performed live - most of them for the first time - are based around the theme of compassion and...
First public sharing of new electronic music performance with live visual collaboration
I am rather excited and most grateful to be able to announce the first public sharing of a new live electronic music performance paired with projection mapping live visuals (on a screen and objects). After a research and development phase supported by Arts Council...
Music technology course in Primary Schools – wonderful minds and future music producers
O how I love to be inspired and enchanted when working as a creative facilitator specialising in music technology with Primary school children. Their clever, creative and wonderful not-too-conditioned-yet minds seem to love to learning about and appreciating the magic...
On the Go – Drake Music & Matt Halsall electronic music remix project in Manchester
O how I love how accessible music technology can be - deleting barriers and expanding sonic landscapes. As part of my creative facilitator duties, I have been working on this project designed and delivered by Drake Music North West. Three disabled musicians using...
Gratitude for having an Arts Council so a new live electronic music performance can emerge
Well what a lucky pixie I am. The Arts Council of England have opted to support my somewhat wayward endeavours again. And how grateful I am. So, what follows is research and development of a new live performance with new, already pretty much created music centred...
Electro-Brass Recording now available: Electronic music meets Brass Music
We have now completed the recording, mixing and mastering of a new piece of creative music that myself and Eve Harrison (Manchester based trumpeter, classical composer) produced and performed for Durham Brass Festival 2014. Electro-Brass was a commission by Durham...
Art and kindness – can music affect social change?
"People United believes that the arts and culture have a powerful and unique role to play in bringing about social change" As you may know my last album Til You're No Longer Blinkered had behind it a concept of self-knowledge and self-compassion in the aim of...
Ada Lovelace Day 2014 – A celebration of Women in STEM at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
Well, you may have heard of Delia Derbyshire Day, and there is also an Ada Lovelace Day which takes place at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London on TUES OCT 14th 2014. Who is Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)? Only the woman who is said to have written the first...
Electro-Brass at Durham Brass Festival 2014: electronic music meets brass music!
Excited to announce a new piece of music that myself and Eve Harrison (trumpeter, classical composer) have come up with for Durham Brass Festival 2014 which takes place in July. Electro-Brass is a commission by Durham Brass Festival through their Brass:Pitch...
I’m doing the Great North Swim 2014!
So, I am officially a little bit crazy. After all them years in pain that I have now been somewhat liberated from, I am now going looking for adversity. I am doing the Great North Swim 2014 on 14 June at Lake Windermere - yes it is the one that Davina MacColl did and...