Songwriting projects

Studio build in progress

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:39:00 +0100

The studio build is about halfway through now - fully blogged on my Wordpress site. http://joebennett.wordpress.com

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Crows, Rooks and Ravens - the songs

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:33:33 +0000

A year in the making, but it’s finally here. Crows, Rooks and Ravens is the album I co-wrote with singer-songwriter Andi Neate, released 19th March 2009. We started work on it in January 2008, and wrote/recorded around 25 songs, of which 10 a...

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PRS Foundation and CASH project - the movie

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:36:38 +0000

Angelina from CASH (the Composers and Authors' Society of Hong Kong) sent me this lovely video of the Creative Exchange week at Bath Spa back in August 2008. All the songs themselves can be found in previous entries.

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Going back a bit...

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:27:24 +0100

Back in November last year I worked with the lovely Chris Blanden on the Burnsong Project (see the original blog entry from last November, then follow all the entries afterwards to get the full story). It was a great week, with some wonderful son...

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Teaching songwriting with a Mac laptop

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:19:06 +0100

Demo panel at the UK Songwriting Festival 2008 I occasionally get asked, by undergraduate students , Festival songwriters, and songwriting teachers what software and hardware I use to project lyrics and play back songs for analys...

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More pics from Janet

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:26:48 +0100

When she got home to HK, Janet emailed in some lovely pics of her own - here's a selection. The first one includes a photo of some other Chinese visitors (from Beijing) who just happened to be visiting, so it was very helpful to have some of our s...

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Ryan's back in HK

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:53:03 +0100

Here's Ryan's summary of the week; Just got back our trip last night and I’m beat. Luckily we made it back before the typhoon hit otherwise we’d be stuck in the airport right now. Anyway, here’s pictures of Creative Exchange 2008 that I was apa...

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Jerry Chow Chow

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:33:57 +0100

Words and music by Rachel Kar and Katy Carr Katy Carr - voice and banjolele Rachel Kar - piano King Pan Ng - erhu Produced by Chris Blanden His name is Jerry. He is a Chow Chow. Which part of 'Jerry Chow Chow' do you not understand? A Jer...

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Mango Tree

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:28:57 +0100

King Pan Ng and Sara Spade King Pan Ng: Voice, piano and erhu Sara Spade: voice and guitar Produced by Chris Blanden Waking up on the train as the track rolls by I remember a dream of when we sat under a tree of hanging mangoes Oh how I long...

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Task 4 - AABA form

nobody@vox.com(Joe Bennett) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:17:09 +0100

Our strictest task - to write a song in AABA form - was, interestingly, the one that most people found easiest. It seems to bear out Stravinsky's theory that creative constraints seem to enhance personal expression. "...my freedom will be so muc...

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