An Improvisatory Blog Entry
Three hours spent in front of Youtube, checking clips with music. Danny Elfman, Joe Hisaishi. About to begin some creative work now. Hopefully three hours of charging brain cells suffice.
In the midst of checking out Elfman, I discover that Elfman has a new work scored for the concert hall: Serenada Schizophrana. Quintessentially Elfman! If you like his music you can check it out at the official site. http://www.serenadaschizophrana.com/. Going to look for the CD. I have been splurging on artistic endeavours and I think it's time to stop soon before I turn broke.
Also looking forward to Messiaen's Quartet at the End of Time for the next composition class. I have borrowed the score from the conservatory's library, now I have to get the recording.
Some interesting projects are coming up, and they are creatively encouraging. In these cases "acceptability" is not exactly key - it's "being different" and then trying to convince others to like it. Of course I take the advice of my clients. For instance I am writing music for the video of this new modelling agency, and they don't want "usual clubbing music". So I'm free to go and merge classical with jazz, calypso with techno and that sort of thing. Sounds fun.
Another project I truly enjoy is Shaiful's Chronicles of Maria, which I'm composing original music for. Already we have a waltz-cum-mambo for the opening 5-minutes. It's a fantasy story so I'm looking forward to try new scoring techniques besides conventional orchestra.
Also writing my composition for my alma mater's music elective programme: Chamber Jammin' for two violins, piano for four hands (ie two players) and double-bass. Basically a very improvisatory piece on one motif which is changes from jazz to fugal to rock and so on. Hope it will be fun.
Also thankful to David, the director of Milly, Molly: he doesn't mind my sometimes-acerbic writing-style. The music for Milly Molly is not as straightfoward as what's on the trailer... I can faint just writing in that style for 26 episodes :S
Okay back to work! This blog needs a lot of back-dating. Reviews for some shows I've been to: Georgette the Musical; Cantare (Hwa Chong JC choir concert); Opera Jawa (closing film for 2007 Singapore Film Festival); Phantom of the Opera.
So much things, so little time.
