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OCA Music web chat: Inspirational orchestration
Posted: 17/05/19 09:30 |
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Join OCA Music tutor Chris Lawry and fellow music students for an informal web chat from the comfort of your own home. The chat will start at 6.30pm on Wednesday 29 May and continue ‘live’ for at least an hour and a half. The chat will also remain open after that time for follow up conversations, or for those unable to be online at that time to catch up and read. The chat will provide an opportunity to ask questions, share ideas, inspirations and music, to highlight best practice in critical listening and compositional skills, and to engage with the wider OCA music community.
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Music and Maths 2: Back to Basics
Posted: 16/05/19 09:14 |
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While modernism and contemporary music are often thought of as very mathematical, numbers and ratios are in fact central to all western music. In this post I’m going to take a look at the roots of western music theory and explore the mathematical origins of our notions of consonance and dissonance.
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Study event review: Arts & environment. Part 1.
Posted: 15/05/19 09:13 |
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In our discussion about trial and error and finding the right working conditions to be able to experiment as part of the creative process, OCA student Bernadette summed it up nicely, “Lets set out to make loads of mistakes.”
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The Making of Books: Part 1
Posted: 14/05/19 09:36 |
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If you are new to bookmaking, then experimenting with making artist style books is a fantastic learning experience. They are a great way to understand the basic structure of books, play around with different materials and methods of production.
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‘I am tired of guilt…’
Posted: 13/05/19 09:10 |
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At ‘Don McCullin’ you’re not supposed to think so much as feel. But the other function of an art gallery, besides educating us, is surely to provide a public space for debate and criticism. And I’d like to concentrate on that part now, rather than the private response, because what is there to say about our private responses to those photographs except that they’re valid?
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Join the new OCA Book Group!
Posted: 10/05/19 09:38 |
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Do you like books? Do you like tea? Then join the OCA’s new online Book Group
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Study event review: OCA South West
Posted: 09/05/19 09:30 |
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It’s about taking a 360degree approach to out practice to examine it and how it relates to the world now- so as to establish its currency in terms of dialogue (amongst other things).
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This old thing
Posted: 08/05/19 10:33 |
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This Old Thing is a project in which I’ll be wearing only charity shop-bought occasion dresses for two weeks. I’ll also be posting diary entries and a photo a day of me going about my normal life, doing mundane things. I want to use this to explore the various overlapping and contradictory ways we value our clothing, by being overdressed in garments which someone else threw away.
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Music and maths 1: ___flow___
Posted: 07/05/19 09:47 |
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In this series of blog posts I’m going to be looking at some of the ways composers throughout history have explored music through numbers, and sharing some of my own approaches to composition.
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Study event review: Thinking through art
Posted: 02/05/19 09:11 |
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Although some of the reading was quite heavy going, we were able to pick out the salient points and find quotations that resonated with our own experience, ideas or concerns or stimulated new thinking.
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