Sketchbooks- a piece art in it’s own right? I recently delivered a workshop entitled The Magic of Sketchbooks. I enjoyed researching the sketchbooks of famous artists – Henry Moores’s Sheep Sketchbook is a joy. Van Gogh’s letters, Picasso’s myriad of […]
Even though the day was a bit overcast, Lee decided we could work up to the bore holes. Lacey Hawthorne (also doing a residency at Stiwdio Maelor) decided to come also. Once up at the boreholes Lee went inside and […]
Our first job today was to go into Aberystwyth and pick up the equipment we needed from the School of Art. They had nearly everything we needed, so we took it down to my studio and Lee explained each piece. […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The psychology of Elena Thomas is endlessly fascinating – to Elena Thomas at least. I spent an hour in Fair Deal Music this morning. I planned to buy a looper. I was meeting Dan for […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here But then, on the other hand, there’s only so much courage I can muster. A girl needs a comfort blanket. Mr Jones can raise his eyebrows as much as he likes. It takes bravery […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I’ve been listening to the songs a lot, obviously, as they are playing into the gallery. I’ve also been reflecting on live performance of the same songs. The differences in process fascinate me, and […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Another studio session… doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? A bar has opened at the other end of Birdcage Walk. It is very busy, good for them! Although I am rather disturbed by the […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Today I have been getting my geek on. The next song is to be constructed, collage and patchwork fashion, purely from vocals. Dan is an analogue kind of man. Acoustic would win over digital every […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s hard to define why it’s so much fun really… You sit in a room with the same people for hours. You record stuff, sometimes repetitively. You drink tea and eat biscuits. Then you sit […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here My eyes get tired, and the bit of brain involved with the visual, it gets tired too… but it takes a while. I’m talking four or five days in Florence. By the fourth day […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Having said all I need is a mic and a macbook, Dan arrived on the first recording day with what seemed like a truck-load of stuff crammed tetris-style into the back of a Nissan […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s happening fast, now we’ve started, so it is hard to know where to start! Two days of recording then… I want to try to get down what I’ve learned as I go along. This […]
AUDIOBLOG please click here! I took all my new gear to the studio. Once alone, I took a deep breath, then started. I carefully took it all out of the boxes. I assembled the mic stand, figured out the pop […]
Right then. Yesterday I watched some of my Songwriting Circle buddies perform as part of the mac birmingham (their lower case trendy insistence, not mine) open day for the new term’s courses. I could have joined in, but chose not […]