Canterbury Christ Church University
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Automatronic New Music for Organ and Electronics Part of the Canterbury Festival, held in the Anselm Chapel at Canterbury Christ Church University on Monday 22nd October 2018. Lauren Redhead (Organ) & Alistair Zaldua (Violins and Electronics) I must admit my bias before I move on. I have experienced a few Automatronic concerts in the last…
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What if? The Hansel & Gretel Tale On the 28th April 2016 I put on a concert which featured a mixture of some of my favourite open-scored, chance-based, and quasi-composed/quasi-improvised pieces to both celebrate and summarise the three years I spent studying my Bachelor of Music at Canterbury Christ Church University. Unlike the last two…
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Notation Experiments for Circuit-Bent Toys As I move onto my PhD it is high-time that I complete this series. After all, the Master’s Project is now complete. It became clear in the middle of the project that I had bitten off more than I could chew regarding the installation. There was not enough time to…
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Circuit-Bending Toys UPDATE This is a quick update to the Masters Project Series, which will now continue into my PhD as a reflection on what has happened in the first part of my postgraduate studies. However this is not truly a new post, but a notification that the documentary I had to create for my…
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I’d thought I’d start this year off with a post about what fantastic things have happened in 2017, and what awaits me in 2018. 2017 We can all agree that 2017 was a turbulent year. However, with that being said, there a few things that are positive about the year: January saw the start of…
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Below is a link to the second entry in a series of blogs titled ‘Experiments and Explorations’ that I write for Canterbury Christ Church University School of Music and Performing Arts: When I last posted a few months ago, I provided you with more of a general overview of how I compose, and why. In…
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A Throne of Games On the 28th April 2016 I put on a concert which featured a mixture of some of my favourite open-scored, chance-based, and quasi-composed/quasi-improvised pieces to both celebrate and summarise the three years I spent studying my Bachelor of Music at Canterbury Christ Church University. The second entry in this series focuses…
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Below is a link to a blog titled ‘Experiments and Explorations’ that I write for Canterbury Christ Church University School of Music and Performing Arts: The proper thing to do, I suppose, is for me to introduce myself. My name is Jason Hodgson. I’m an experimental composer currently studying Master of Music (MMus) at Canterbury…
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Concert Reflection 19th April 2017 St. Gregory’s Centre for Music That’s it. This part of the project is over. It’s seems like no time at all has passed since I first introduced you to the Circuit Bending section. Before I go on to discuss the concert, I just wanted to say a huge thanks to…
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What’s in a Name? /Workshops 2 & 3 In this mini-series I will talk about circuit-bending as part of Creative Project, as well as occasionally, how it will relate to my Main composition project. In the last post, I introduced you to the instruments by how I bent them. But now it’s time to Name…
Johanne-Bryce Hodgson 