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
Weekly Task: Investigate and reflect on the story from The Music Works using the link on Moodle Focus on the four key areas of social bonding. The Music Works: The Music Works is a small, Gloucester based company that works with young people building self confidence, motivation, and empowerment through using music. The company looks … More The Music Works and Social Bonding
Facebook Video The idea for our project is to perform a song that is created and influenced by an audience on Facebook. Working in our group is Jazmine Heath, Beth Thurtell and Abigail Scire. Jazmine will be playing piano, Beth will be creating a loop on the octapad to keep us in time and then … More Assessment 1
This lecture was based around audience participation when performing music. The idea of the lesson was to create a piece of music while getting other people involved. I worked in a group with Antony Byrd and Liam Graham. I played piano, Tony played bass and Liam played guitar. We came up with the idea of … More Audience Participation
For our first Music for Networks lesson we discussed and learnt about the artist, Steve Reich. He is commonly known for his minimalist work like Electric Counterpoint. As part of a lesson task, we looked at his piece ‘Clapping Music for Two Performers’. It was a simple piece of music where one person would clap a 1 bar … More Clapping Music – Steve Reich
My Little Island – Isle of Wight Verse: My little island A pocket sized world Helped me grow up, But brought me down to earth I lived in my bubble Surrounded by the sea I’ll always love how much this little island means to me Chorus: I freed the waves, So they freed me in … More Location Song 2nd Draft
‘An Airplane Carried Me To Bed’ is an album by Adam Young, known by his musical project, Owl City. Sky Sailing was his previous stage name. I am going to be looking at Scott Fryberger’s review on this album. The section of the review talks a lot about his lyricism stating that this album is … More An Airplane Carried Me To Bed – Sky Sailing
How and why have the music tastes of your interviewee’s changes since childhood? Did the people around you growing up, up until now have an influence on what your music tastes are, and if so, who and how? Looking back, what do you like and dislike about your music tastes from childhood? How important is … More Writing Qualitative Questions
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