Toughening up
It has been a tough week with a little dab of soul-searching tucked away there right in the middle. It …
Category Archives: Composing
A good run
I managed to get the bare bones of the Agnus of the new Mass finished yesterday, a harmony that builds …
Tipping
I have written before that there is a tipping point in each piece, a moment when the disparate fragments of …
Stick at it
I have been reading Other Minds recently, a book about octopuses (so the book says) or octopodes (as I say), …
From the same well
Back to the writing we go after a slightly calmer week just gone, although I did manage to prang the …
Progress and steps
A busy couple of days, made just slightly more edgy by the loss of an hour on Sunday morning and …
Liquid
Next week is a combination of appointments and calm, the rigours of Holy Week coinciding with the end of my …
Snags
Yesterday was a day that included one of my least favourite things in the world – a workman in the …
Spring forwards
The weather forecasters were a little bit off on Sunday evening, the promised snow materialising only briefly in the evening, …
Lucky number seven
I had a great session with my saxophonist colleague yesterday, tweaking a couple of elements here and there, developing material, …
