Thomas Newman & Gary Rydstorm – Finding Nemo & Finding Dory Thomas Newnam is the composer of the films Finding Nemo and Finding Dory. His image for the sound score was to make the film believable, not realistic. The production of the film started in January 2000 and reached a crew of 180 for the … More Three Composers
From Acorns… How to build your brilliant business from scratch Caspian Woods The title of this book gives a clear indication of the themes inside. This book is a beginners manual to starting up your own business in from the very basics like how to be an entrepreneur. One can tell that it is marketed … More Task 2, 5 Texts
Task 1 – “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” This proverb could be expressing a few things although the ultimate theme of ‘journey’ and being moving forwards remains.
Preparation and Research In preparation for our workshop, our group met up more than three times to create and rehearse our workshop. We dabbled with lots of different ideas for our workshop before creating our final idea. Some of these ideas were really fun and creative but didn’t get used for whatever reason; either because they were too … More Self Reflection of Leading a Workshop
The British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT) is a charity that is the voice for those who benefit from, provides and promotes music therapy as a practice and profession in the UK. They aim to promote the science and art of music therapy, development and uses for music therapy for a wide range of needs in children … More BAMT session with Grace Watts
Daze plans to expand it’s fanbase in Cheltenham to Gloucester, Bristol, Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Cardiff and Brighton. We chose these places because of familiarity, connections with some of these places and the demographics. Gloucester is our closest neighbour, Beth comes from Norfolk and I come from the Isle of Wight. The other places were chosen because … More Expanding our Fanbase
There are many ways that we can get our EP out into the public. We are going to be able to sell our EP’s at gigs and online but we will need to reach out to external sources if we want our music to get to a wider audience. I am mainly going to be … More Marketing the EP
Who are Daze? Daze is a newly formed electro pop two piece founded by Jazzy Heath and Beth Thurtell in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. This project was formed after realising a love for collaborating creating electronic music by putting the two creative minds together in forming a unique style of dark electro pop. Our music is firstly … More Artist Identity
Pyka is a company of digital artist-educators that develop and build apps. The word ‘Pyka’ comes from a mixture of Celtic words. It symbolises creativity, playfulness, mystery and the unknown. Pyka offers courses to help expand peoples musical abilities and lead a creative journey using the Pyka_Loop app. The courses are over six sessions and aim to teach people different … More Pyka
On Thursday 23rd March, my course group were taken to Gloucestershire to take part in a music workshop for the day ran by The Music Works. We arrived at The Academy in the morning and we learnt how to beatbox and different musical subjects surrounding that. We started the day off with some ice breakers and team … More The Music Works Workshop
Jazzy Heath UOG 