The last two weeks seem to have been transcription and engraving heavy. It started with Australian composer Ric Mills contacting me to create a score of three of his piano works: Peace, Irrelevant and Grounded.
The
process of transcribing Peace and Grounded was relatively
straight forward (unfortunately I can’t show the score as I don’t have
copyright of it). However, the process
for creating a score for Irrelevant presented some interesting challenges. The nature of the piece was described to me
by the composer something like "a melody which is desperately trying to show itself through a thick dissonant texture".
The nature of the work lends itself to a more or less consistent four / four meter, but I thought that the composition might work better without bar lines as there isn't a suggestion of emphasis every four beats. Perhaps I was influenced by Philip Glass's experiences working with Ravi Shankar??
I ended up creating two
versions of the score; one with bar lines and one without as neither of us were
willing to commit to one or the other. I
hope to hear about the performance of these works at an upcoming concert in the
near future.
The other large transcription
work which has now been completed was organising a team of musicians to create
piano/vocal rehearsal scores for a new Australian musical “Cook”, composed by Gareth
Hudson & Nick Higginbottom from Newcastle (NSW). We had less than 2 weeks to create these
scores from recorded songs. I had to
organise a team of musicians to assist me as there was too much for a single
person to do. I’d like to thank Stewart
Taylor, Gemma Turvey, Sam Donovan and Joseph Beckitt for their efforts to to get this done. Using Google Docs and Dropbox to coordinate everything we managed to complete this mammoth task.
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