Bow church finds itself in the middle of a very busy road that runs from Stratford to Mile End and beyond. It’s also where I sometimes get the 108 to Blackheath and isn’t far from Bow Church DLR and Bow Road tube station.
Next Saturday “Parallel Relay”, a project formed by a couple of artists, is putting on a free sound and light workshop in the afternoon, in the church, followed by an evening performance of the output from that.
Contact info@parallelrelay.com for more info and to reserve a place.
Saturday 27 September 2014
Workshop / Experiments with light and sound 2.00 – 6.30pm
Performance / Light window and soundscape 7.30 – 8.30pm
FREE
Bow Church, 230 Bow Road
BAFTA’s Conversations with Screen Composers is wonderful. The fantastic Tommy Pearson does the interviewing (I always think they should get someone in just to interview him one day as he seems like an interesting and knowledgeable chap himself) and we get to hear from different screen composers talking about their work. There are film / TV clips and quite often a bit of musical accompaniment.
The events take place in the Elgar room upstairs at the beautiful Royal Albert Hall: Patrick Doyle will be interviewed on Monday 13 October and David Arnold on Tuesday 2 December.
More about the launch of the new series of interviews – at time of writing the page lists the second event as happening on 3 December but the RAH tickets page below says it’s the 2nd.
For film music concerts around the world have a look at this amazing Movies in Concert page (and if you know of a concert not listed you can add it yourself, there’s a form there).
Almost exactly a year ago (12 Sep 2013) the BBC broadcast the first episode of Neil Brand’s fantastic series “The Sound of Cinema – the music that made the movies” which was part of a wider series of programmes (television and radio) about film music. Being quick off the mark where film music events are concerned I managed to get a ticket to a premiere screening of episode one at the BFI the previous week, with a Q&A afterwards. Great fun.
Hopefully they’ll show all three episodes. I also hope the BBC will commission more programmes from Neil about film music – at the Q&A he mentioned that there was soooo much more to say and I would like to hear it.
This is the RadioTimes listing for the first episode: The Big Score and see also Neil’s website (plus events page) and Twitter. The paragraph below is from last year’s blog post on the programme.
Neil Brand’s The Sound of Cinema, episode one: ‘The Big Score’ on orchestral sound, 9pm, BBC Four – detailed programme information: “In a series celebrating the art of the cinema soundtrack, the heart of a BBC-wide season playing on radio as well as TV, Neil Brand explores the work of the great movie composers, and demonstrates their techniques. Neil begins by looking at how the classic orchestral film score emerged and why it’s still going strong today. Neil traces how in the 1930s, European-born composers such as Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold brought their Viennese training to play in stirring, romantic scores for Hollywood masterpieces like King Kong and The Adventures of Robin Hood. But it took a home-grown American talent, Bernard Herrmann, to bring a darker, more modern sound to some of cinema’s finest films, with his scores for Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver. Among those Neil meets are leading film-makers and composers who discuss their work, including Martin Scorsese and Hans Zimmer, composer of blockbusters like Gladiator and Inception.”
I’ve found that eps 2 and 3 are on YouTube but from previous experience they might not stay for very long.
Fantastic speakers listed so far include Chris Watson, Nick Ryan, Tim Exile and Martyn Harries with more to follow.
This two-day event on innovation in sound production and broadcast will feature talks by inspirational artists, producers and engineers, and demonstrations of state-of-the-art audio technology. It will be an opportunity for radio and TV producers, engineers and technologists to discover how audio content is made today and discuss what it will be like in the future.
Themes
Creative – finding and creating content in the digital age
Responsive – audio tailored for the listener and by the listener
Immersive – creating engaging aural experiences
Live – capturing large-scale live events
Format
There will be talks in the morning and afternoon from invited speakers on each of the above themes. During lunch and between the sessions, there will be a large technology fair to explore and a wide selection of demonstrations of the latest sound technology.
There will also be a Technology Fair (and a dinner). The first stage is to register an interest in the dialogue box on the bottom of the event’s page.
Should you want to add this to some sort of online calendar hopefully this will work: 19-20 May 2015, BBC Broadcasting House, W1A 1AA
Original post from yesterday Written on iPhone, forgive typos and delayed hyperlinking, haven’t used this interface before and it’s much harder (for me at any rate) to multitask on a phone than it is on a laptop.
I heard about this via working at QMUL, through an email from the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) who I now think of as my Social Committee, as they regularly supply me with news of fascinating events.
I’ll write more about the event later but wanted to tell people who might be interested about tomorrow’s event – there’s a music hack for children and young people aged 8-16 and no experience is needed. It’ll involve creating new instruments – there’s an opportunity to perform as well. It’s all taking place at at LSO St Luke’s on Old Street (I took the 43 bus from London Bridge to that lovely redbrick building and then walked), other journeys available. The hack stuff takes place in the venue cafe downstairs and there are talks and performances in the main room on the ground floor.