Composition

  • 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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  • Happy New Year (2018)

    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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  • Language is a Fictious Fact On the 28th April 2016 I put on 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. In this series of blog posts I…

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  • An introduction to the series about my Masters Project. For roughly the next 18 months, I will be studying my Master of Music at Canterbury Christ Church University, with a focus on Composition. My aim for my Main Project as it stands at this point in time, is to create and develop an installation which…

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