As seen on my first blog post, I was intending to do a full story-telling instrumental following the life of a meteorite (with some creative liberties of course). I then decided to focus on the Middlesborough Meteorite in particular and make it more tied to Middlesborough in general. I ultimately decided against this as I…

Granular Play 2 is such a fun and unpredictable software to use. I went into it expecting to make something beautiful and drone-like but instead ended up composing a sort of Half-Life 2 horror piece. I used a small clip of someone singing a folk tune unaccompanied, not sure what the tune is as I…

Huge apologies for not posting in eons! My memory is absolutely terrible and I just so happened to forget this blog existed </3 Anyway! We were tasked with booking out a Zoom Hn1 field recorder a while ago, maybe in late February, and I actually had a blast with it. It’s a stereo field mic…

We all went to the Great North Museum during the workshop last week to have a quick guided tour. I’ve already been a couple times in the past so I was mainly using that time to think of what sections I’d be most interested in composing for. I decided to go back today and have…