February AMA
Is there something you'd like to ask?
Friends - thanks as ever for your loyal following of my posts so far this year.
I’m working on two fairly long, chunky posts coming your way in the following weeks - one a detailed look at a commission I’ve been doing and will perform this week in Leeds; the other an extended long-form article about my practice as a performer (not practise!).
As such, and because of my recent travelling, this weeks’ post is another Ask Me Anything. I know some of you sometimes have burning questions you’d like to ask, so here’s your moment!
Please feel free to pop a comment below, and I’ll aim to get back to you as soon as I can.
Wishing you a great weekend!
Hi Simeon, I’ve been loving my Remnants CD & zine (and I really appreciated your postcard message) and I’d be very interested to know more about your creative process. When you write, for example, about Inside/Out “I aimed to convey this sense of uncertainty and unsettledness through ambiguity, and a lack of a clearly defined key… to explore the use of inversions and extended chords”, are those plans that you would have had before you started composing the piece or are they things that you have analysed after the piece has emerged? Maybe this varies from piece to piece but I’d be very interested to know how it works for you. Best wishes, Richard
Hey Sim! I was going over some of my sheet music collection and stumbled upon my Howard Skempton books Images and 24 Preludes and Fugues. I remember it was you who had recommended him to me. He hits a target no one seems to even see. Do you have any favorites from these two collections?