Creative Exchange - Bath 3-7 Aug 2008

Welcome to Creative Exchange 2008!

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:04:28 +0100

Dear all, Welcome to Creative Exchange 2008, and this, our songwriters' blog. I'll be using these pages to keep you updated on the project before we begin, add detail regarding the tasks, and of course to post songs and photographs that we creat...

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Creative Exchange - the blurb

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:44:41 +0100

Creative cultural exchange 2008 Bath – 2-7 August 2008 In association with PRS Foundation (PRSF) and the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH) This is an international opportunity for 8 talented emerging songwriters from different...

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Burnsong on BBC Radio Scotland

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:23:35 +0000

On Friday night, some of the songwriters were interviewed on the Ian Anderson show, presented on this occasion by Ricky Ross. Here as audio files are the relevant excerpts from the show, including interviews with four of the Gathering 2007 winners...

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Black is the Sun - Stevie Palmer

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:56:35 +0000

I included the audio for this song in a previous blog, but since the gig quite a few people have remarked on it, so here it is in full, including lyrics. Stevie's original draft of the lyric had the character in his homeland, which had become a wa...

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The Citizens' Republic of Pennywell

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:53:33 +0000

Possibly the most interesting task of the week, in terms of the songs that came out of it, was the exercise where everyone had to write a song with a tempo faster than 120 beats per minute (2 beats per second). This led a lot of singer-songwriters...

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From demo to recording

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:22:03 +0000

Every day the songwriters played back new material to the group for discussion, and whenever time allowed we developed these basic first performances by getting our in-house producer Chris to work with the artist on some arrangements. So we though...

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The BBC gig

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:16:58 +0000

So here we are at BBC Glasgow, stealing a blogging moment on one of their foyer PCs. We can't upload pics or audio here, but here for now we've posted our setlist. The ones in italics are new songs, written during the Gathering; we're also going ...

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The songs!

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:44:59 +0000

Hi all, Sorry for missing a day on the blog - Euan and Jim, our excellent session musicians, arrived yesterday, and we were rehearsing so intensively that we lost track of the time & weather; as I mentioned before, it is only possible to blog fro...

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Voices, computers and beats

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:34:20 +0000

Yesterday's task was to work on an up-tempo song (singer-songwriters often have a tendency toward melancholia, and we want some lively material for our live set at the BBC in Glasgow on Friday). Lots of people are working on Logic, Garageband or P...

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Honours for fees - and photos of llamas

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:22:53 +0000

Today our first song rolled off the studio production line - Padraig's 'Honours For Fees', the only song of the original 12 winners that was unrecorded originally. All the musicians are Burnsong winners. The songwriters were given their second ta...

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