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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Social Media: Friend or Foe? – An interview with Marc Yeats Back in June, I read a news article regarding a concert given by pianist Krystian Zimerman in which he took issue with an audience member […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Reflections on the Birmingham Conservatoire Study Visit OCA students and staff joined colleagues from Birmingham Conservatoire for a day of rehearsals, debate and reflection, culminating in a concert to mark tutor Andy Glover’s recent birthday. Such […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Following on from my past blogs regarding compositional tools for students, I want to take a look at how technology can affect the process and, in turn, the reception of a composition. Last December I happened […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Last year I wrote several blogs investigating tools for composition students, specifically those in distance learning environments, and recording possibilities for composers needing realisations of their work. Taking the concept of recording parts separately a step […]
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A newly released CD has reminded me this week of a very useful tool in the arsenal of the composer, that of recomposition. The term loosely refers to the action of reworking an existing piece into something new, however, this can be achieved in a variety of ways and results can provoke some animated debate […]
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Following on from my previous blog post about using music technology to develop compositional skills and provide performance, I wanted to take a look at the situation from a slightly different angle. Composers with instrumentalist friends, or who can find or form ensembles to work with, can get works played, even if just to hear […]
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As many composition tutors will tell you, the key to developing properly as a composer is to be able to hear the music you are writing. This presents the distance learning student with a particular problem, namely, where to find performers. Students, writing for instruments they don’t play, have to be able to network in […]
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