What Are You Practising / Composing Now?

[Serial_Apologist]

Shrutibox and live electronics piece for the Noisefloor festival later this week .....

http://www.noisefloor.org.uk

"For further information send us an email"

All very cloak & dagger!

Good luck with it, MrGG.

[Richard Barrett]

Shrutibox and live electronics piece for the Noisefloor festival later this week .....

That festival looks very interesting indeed.

[MrGongGong]

That festival looks very interesting indeed.

I've done a few things there in the past, always some interesting things and a great way to meet like-minded folks.
It's always good to play at things which are initiated by folks who are motivated by curiosity. "Noise of Fire" in Aberystwyth is a similar vibe.

[Richard Barrett]

I've done a few things there in the past, always some interesting things and a great way to meet like-minded folks.
It's always good to play at things which are initiated by folks who are motivated by curiosity. "Noise of Fire" in Aberystwyth is a similar vibe.

That's another one I've never heard of... I need to get up to speed on what's happening in the old country.

[BBMmk2]

Looking forward to my next project. A few people are interested.

[Joseph K]

Dowland's Frog Galliard has taken the back seat to make way for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSi7Uv2PMts

... which I started learning in September last year, got just over half way through and then stopped, but have taken it up again, determined to master it in its entirety this time. It's not as difficult as the fugue from BWV 998 I'd say, but no less satisfying to play.

A couple of other pieces I've been learning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGF8G0wd0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-o9iPf4nZU

[peterthekeys]

A few weeks ago, started working on the piano part of Frank Bridge's "Phantasm". Amazing piece - I admire it more every time I play it. I've had a couple of copies of the 2-piano score for over 20 years - but each time I tried it, I gave up after a few pages: I finally decided to bite the bullet and learn it properly. It has some of the most awkward piano writing I've ever played - never does exactly what one expects. If I manage to get it fully under my fingers, I'm intending to try to get a local orchestra interested in doing it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Currently practising the piano part for Elgar's Violin Sonata. Wonderful, powerful music, but the piano writing seems a little ... well, clumsy.

[BBMmk2]

Been revising some of the parts to my current project.

[silvestrione]

Bach's G Major French Suite. Tricky last movement! But Bach always seems to be writing for a level of proficiency he's keeping in mind, and the French suites always seem to fall nciely under the hands. I'm really trying, for once, to get the turns, the ornamentation, absorbed into the melodic lines.

[DracoM]

Frantically rehearsing my lines [I'm narrator and percussionist] for a multi-media show with a local medieval ensemble - doing 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' with music, slides, dances etc.

[BBMmk2]

Frantically rehearsing my lines [I'm narrator and percussionist] for a multi-media show with a local medieval ensemble - doing 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' with music, slides, dances etc.

Good luck!

[DracoM]

I'll need it, but the instrumentalists / singers out front are terrific. And it's such a fantastically good story, is GGK.
So no pressure on narrator.................!!!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Good luck!

Is it a modern English adaptation, or are you doing it in Middle English?

[DracoM]

Modern English but very sound translation which well reflects alliterative mode but doesn't get in the way of the theatre central to it, plus medieval music played on appropriate instruments - shawms, sackbuts, recorders, psaltery, crumhorns etc etc.