For the last semester, I have been working closely with the 2nd year WAAPA sound production students with live recordings in the sound studios. They needed to record and mix a song by a solo artist for their assignments. Since I'm old friends with one of the 2nd year students and worked in the studios last year, I was the lucky musician to get free recordings of my originals. Initially, I was helping my friend record one song for her assignment... which then turned into two as another soundie jumped on the band wagon. Ultimately, I recorded 3 songs for the sound students during 2 different sessions in the studio. Most of the time consisted of adjustments to the set up and levels of the recording. The only thing that took some time when actually recording, was layering the harmonies and the percussion. My inner perfectionist did kick in a few times as I asked again and again to re-record the guide track. However, I was fairly chuffed with how the recordings turned out and knew that the standard was suitable enough to fit the criteria for their assignments (which was the main thing). A picture of the set up can be seen above. The three songs we recorded were titled: 1. Melancholy Madness 2. Learn To Be Kind 3. Epiphany On A Friday Night All these songs I wrote within the last 6 months or so. The genre and aesthetic very much fit with the "Call Me Charlie" alias I have for my solo gigging work (which made recording much easier and less time consuming). To have a listen to the finished products, follow the link here.
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This semester, I'm doing a collaboration with dancer and cinematographer, Ayesha Norcross. Her emotive and contemporary dance approach matches well with my style of lyric driven composition.
We met up on the 9th March to discuss the collaboration and how we approach composing for music / dance. Over and over again, Ayesha reinforced this idea of letting the music "breathe". The pauses between beats. A change in pace. The rise and fall in melody. Below, are notes I took during this discussion. The main take aways for me, were to place an emphasis on DYNAMICS and PULSE. This was also made important due to her love of acoustic hip hop stylings, where pulse and rhythm is key for the laid back sound. From this, I decided to play around with the physicality of breathing through accapella - letting the dancer and musician breathe together. |
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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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