Welcome to the Composers' Table
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You don't necessarily need to be able to read music to be a composer! Here's a little video from Jill to give you some ideas of how the sounds we hear around us every day can be thought of as music. Why not have a go at composing your own piece, and send it to us? Or listen to some of the things other people contribute to this table and send us your comments on them. Use the form at the bottom of the page to get in touch.
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The Composers' Table
Here's a contribution from artist Marigold Short. Marigold was following our Online Sound Exhibition and sent us the following message:
I've just been listening to a couple of your bell recordings on the website. Do you have plans of what you are going to do with these sounds when you have collected them? Because if not, I would love to make a sound sculpture from them!
Here's a contribution from artist Marigold Short. Marigold was following our Online Sound Exhibition and sent us the following message:
I've just been listening to a couple of your bell recordings on the website. Do you have plans of what you are going to do with these sounds when you have collected them? Because if not, I would love to make a sound sculpture from them!
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So of course we said we would love to hear a sound sculpture inspired by this project - and here it is! Let Marigold know what you think by sending us a message via the form at the bottom of the page. https://www.facebook.com/marigoldshortartist |
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This fantastic piece is from amateur cellist and viol player Joyce: I am very interested in your bells project. When I had a bit of bother with arthritis in my hand I had to stop playing the cello for a while, so I decided to have a go at writing music, opus 1 is "A Celtic Air" and opus 2 is "Ringing the Changes", both for 4 part strings. My hand improved, so there isn't an opus 3 yet.... 'Ringing the Changes' was inspired by my love of change ringing.
The piece starts with 3 different things rung on bells - rounds (the downward scale 12345678), queens (13572468), and titums (15263748). The middle section is a development of a section of Ding Dong Merrily on High, then there's the Westminster chimes (Big Ben chimes) - very loud on part 4. (I was playing cello when I wrote this so obviously have to give the good part to the cello!).
Ali and Jenny put their multi-tracking skills to the test, and recorded 'Ringing the Changes'. We like it very much!
The piece starts with 3 different things rung on bells - rounds (the downward scale 12345678), queens (13572468), and titums (15263748). The middle section is a development of a section of Ding Dong Merrily on High, then there's the Westminster chimes (Big Ben chimes) - very loud on part 4. (I was playing cello when I wrote this so obviously have to give the good part to the cello!).
Ali and Jenny put their multi-tracking skills to the test, and recorded 'Ringing the Changes'. We like it very much!
