, I've been working with Alice Humphries this semester to work out my recital. She's given me some great advice as to how to tailor my creative workflow, using lead sheets as a way to workshop my pieces before writing up a more detailed version of the score. For my recital, I'm planning to do a performance structured like a concept album. It will be split into 3 different sections with varying moods: 1) Reflective and Introspective 2) Lively and Performative 3) Cathartic and Freeing. This is shaped to explore the dynamics of intimacy in music performance. Sometimes, music is written for the writer and other times it's written for the audience and that's something I want to explore in this performance. Right now, I have 5 songs already written. They will be arranged for a band and (hopefully) an 8 piece string arrangement. 1. Until It's Easy 2. Golden Trash 3. I Suck @ Video Games 4. Matter of Time 5. Oversaturated / Carrington Street So far, I've written the lead sheets for Golden Trash and we have rehearsed and workshopped it with the band. The PDF for these can be found below. I was also able to use this song as a test for using my recording studio for my special topics unit project.
This is the live recording we were told to do for replacing our 4th year Semester 1 performance. These will also be my main band members for the recital, however, I'll have to find a replacement for our electric guitarist who had to quit after realising his schedule conflicts.
The final arrangement I'm hoping to have is lead vocals, 2 x backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, bass guitar, drum kit, 4 x violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and an alto saxophone. These performers will be on stage for the whole performance as the songs in the 3 individual sections will likely flow one into the other. Over the course of semester break, I plan to finish the lead sheets and to start work on the string arrangements. For the opener of the recital, I've done some field recordings for bird sounds down in Manjimup, where my extended family lives. I plan to mix these sounds with some synths in a spatial piece for when the audience is walking into the theatre (I'm unsure which performance space I want to use yet, but it is likely going to end up being in the RGA, The Rosemount, or the Spiegel Tent, if possible). Again, this use of very personal experiences and sounds is meant to impose the idea of intimacy on the audience right from the get go. This will then bleed into the first song, Until It's Easy.
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Artist SummaryI'm a WA Fremantle based singer-songwriter / composer. Here, you can have a gawk at my studies, compositions and performances. Archives
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