Month: March 2010

Two compositions

Byartsyhonker March 21, 2010 0 Comments
At some stage I will probably stop thinking of my life in terms of "since I finished at Trinity", but for now it's still such a change that I'm quite regularly struck by how different life is. One of the joys of having more control over my time is that I have been doing more composing. I have half a dozen things unfinished at the moment, but I've also written three pieces since December. One of...

Improvable.

Byartsyhonker March 3, 2010 0 Comments
Good rehearsal today with the other members of the Brigantia Consort -- we looked at some new repertoire, rehearsed stuff we've been working on for performance probably this summer, and did some improvisation.We recorded some of the rehearsal, and it was interesting to hear the results. Two things, to my mind, really stood out.The first is that we do talk rather a lot between playing. Of course...