In the anechoic chamber
Posted: 21/11/16 09:40 | 4 Comments
One element of studying Music from the Present to the Past is to periodically reassess one’s own definition of what music is.
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Film, memory, identity
Posted: 17/11/16 09:06 | 0 Comments
Film music can and should be the trigger for memory, the power of cinema that can stay with us always.
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Let me tell you
Posted: 15/11/16 09:41 | 0 Comments
While “spellbinding”, “astonishing” and “glorious” are not words common in reviews of 21st century classical music, Hans Abrahamson’s Let Me Tell You – which has garnered a slew of ecstatic praise since its premiere in 2013 – has commanded them all. Despite over twenty performances across Europe – a fairly big deal for a new piece of concert music – the work only arrived in the UK in August of 2016, when it was performed at the Proms by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of its new chief conductor, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
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Creative use of Instagram
Posted: 11/11/16 09:16 | 7 Comments
My OCA students are very adept at using online platforms to guide and influence their creative practice and so it is possible that I am writing to people who know more about this subject than I do…..however, this is not an instruction guide, it is a reflection on my experience of using Instagram to build and inspire my creative practice. I will reflect on how I have developed an online portfolio which reaches a far wider audience than my web site.
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Confessions of an art student
Posted: 09/11/16 09:52 | 8 Comments
I am at the start of Level 3 (assignment 2) and experiencing the same feelings I had with my first course, Drawing 1, in what feels like a life-time ago in 2012…
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Study Visit: Gateshead
Posted: 07/11/16 12:30 | 0 Comments
Join OCA tutor Emma Drye on the 19 November at the Workplace Gallery, Gateshead. We will view This Is it, Isn’t It? an exploration of ideas of self-awareness, self-reflexivity and self-doubt as a core of artists’ practice.
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