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Wind Turbines
Looking back over some previous musical ideas, I kept being drawn to the previous ideas of Windmills and seasonal change. There was...
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jacobhodge
- Dec 15, 2019
- 2 min
Gardener's World
I recently had an opportunity to work with a colleague on a piece of music relating to the environment. I was sent a file with a...
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jacobhodge
- Dec 15, 2019
- 2 min
Tape Loops & DAW Technology
Experimental composer Steve Reich, used tape loops to make his 1963 work ‘it’s gonna rain’ which featured repeated spoken lines and...
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jacobhodge
- Dec 15, 2019
- 2 min
Snowfall - Looping Textures
Recently we have had a few scattered flurries of snowfall, some have settled and lingered others dissipating in a mist of sleet and rain....
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jacobhodge
- Dec 15, 2019
- 3 min
Solstice Jubilo - Exploring Winter
Once the initial bite of winter has taken hold it seems to me that winter tide could flow in several ways when dealing with the...
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jacobhodge
- Dec 15, 2019
- 2 min
Frost
The latest experiments of using the season of Autumn as an inspiration for some compositional ideas abruptly ended in true Scottish...
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jacobhodge
- Dec 15, 2019
- 3 min
Autumn's Progress
After recent experiments with some ‘minimalist’ inspired works relating to environment and technology and a composition inspired by a...
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jacobhodge
- Dec 15, 2019
- 2 min
Composition Ideas
Whitelee Windfarm is positioned on what can certainly be called a moor. In his book, The Moor: Lives Landscape Literature, William Atkins...
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jacobhodge
- Dec 15, 2019
- 2 min
Whitelee Windfarm
If this blog is to be indicative of a musical process relating to my own compositional inspirations and development, it seemed crucial to...
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jacobhodge
- Dec 14, 2019
- 2 min
Balintore, Sept 2017
The MA Music and the Environment begins with a residential trip to Balintore in Easter Ross, one of the Seaboard villages in the northern...
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