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Crowdfunding musical projects
I’ve been thinking a bit about “crowd funding” recently since some good friends were successful in using Kickstarter to fund their commissioning project for percussion music. Kickstarter is for US residents only but I see that there’s an similar product called Pozible available for Australians.
read moreiOS networked metronome proof of concept
Somebody asked me whether it was possible to have a metronome synchronised between a bunch of iPhones… it turns out it is!
read morewhat do emerging percussionists do?
Since our repertoire festival, I’ve been thinking about what the role of a percussionist should be after they’ve left university. I remember something that Eugene Ughetti (Speak Percussion) said when describing his own move from the academic to professional world:
read moreperformance process is iterative!
I’ve been thinking about the whole process of creating a performance (from nothing or from a composition) and what has really worked in the projects I’ve been involved in.
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