Making Music: The Influence of Place on Process
With so many still working in makeshift setups, Senior Composer Keith Bayley looks at the influence of our surroundings on the creative process and output.
COVID-19: why true creativity lies within limitation
Doing something differently always takes you somewhere new. The current restrictions to accessing our usual tools, processes or workflows mean we are forced to look at a solution from a different angle.
Surely, this can only be a good thing if the goal is to create truly original work?
9 Things the 2010s Brought Us & Taught Us About Music…
It’s been a truly seismic decade in music…
6 Song Series: Women in Music Production
Every month, our 6 Song Series introduces you to a scene or sound through six key records or figures that have come to define it.
Sonic Wallpaper: Is Spotify Sidelining Creativity?
As the decade draws to a close, we ask is music becoming less about emotional connection and more about functionality? What influence do technology and subscription services such as Spotify have with shaping our wider relationship with music? And will genres as we know them cease to exist?
Understating the Problem: The Case for Restraint in Music in Advertising
We all know that today’s currency is resonance. So why are we still shouting at our audiences with music and sound? In this post, Head Composer Paul Sumpter aims to tackle the default position that audience impact is always best achieved by being big or forceful and how we can achieve it through poise and calm.
Back in your Box: How Pigeonholing is Killing the Creative Industries
Pigeon-holing. Whether you deal with the visual arts, the word on the page, or with sound and music, it’s likely that at some point your career will have been hamstrung by its insidious fist. The ever-lingering, cursory discrimination of your skills or character that traps you in a box often entirely not of your own…
In the Pocket: What is Musical Feel?
We go behind the curtain to offer thoughts on specifically how the notes are played in the moment influence the way music delivers emotion.
6 Song Series: Women In Punk
We’re pleased to launch our brand new 6 Song Series, where each month we attempt to introduce you to a scene, style or sound through six key records that define it. In our inaugural post, in conjunction with International Women’s Day, we outline six seminal records from cult figures that have come to personify the…
Death of ‘Scene’ Culture
“People put too much emphasis on scenes. Just because there happens to be a town with a few really good bands in it, I mean… big deal! It’s happened all over the place. I don’t understand this community patriotism that everyone’s boasting about in Seattle. They all say ‘we finally put Seattle on the map,’…
