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Share The Sound

Share The Sound Festival has returned! If you’ve been involved or attended the event before we’re sure you can’t wait to see what 2017 holds. Whether you’ve been before or not, know that a sensational two days of jazz, pop, funk, rock and more are coming your way. If you’re not sure what we’re about, here is our Facebook page. Created for up and coming, unsigned artists, Share The Sound Festival is an annual live music event held at The Talking Heads in Southampton. Continue reading →

Loop Project interview with Ben Oliver

Katie Harding, Music student and Turner Sims intern, interviews Dr Ben Oliver about the forthcoming Loop Project. On Sunday 5 February, Turner Sims launch their Spring 2017 Season with The University of Southampton Music Department presenting the final event of a weekend of performances and workshops exploring musical loops. Continue reading →

The Loop Project – coming soon!

We are all looking forward to 3-5 February, when the Music Department will present a whole weekend of performances and workshops exploring musical loops. Leading jazz musicians Ivo Neame, Jasper Høiby and Jon Scott will join the HARTLEY Loop Orchestra to perform a major revision of Benjamin Oliver’s Loop Concerto, which was premiered by Neame and Kent County Youth Orchestra in 2013. Continue reading →

New at St Michael’s – digital pipes

By Jon Pilgrim, organ scholar. In my time as organ scholar for the University over the past two and a half years, the organ of St. Michael’s church has undergone huge change. I have, however, never used their pipe organ, despite playing there a minimum of twice a week. The pipes on the south side are, at this point, purely for show. Continue reading →

Tom Harrison Quintet

Music undergraduate George Barbett tells us about last week’s visit from the Tom Harrison Quintet. The Tom Harrison Quintet performed a captivating concert on Monday 21 November, interpreting the music of Duke Ellington in new and interesting ways. Their use of soundscaping, acoustic and electronic effects, and very free forms was fascinating. Continue reading →

Body Percussion

Second year undergraduate student Kitty O’Neal reports on a recent composition workshop. Composition Workshop A (a BA Music module available to 2nd and 3rd year students) has three assignments – ‘Constraints’, ‘Rhythm’ and and a free composition at the end of the semester. Following our ‘Constraints’ challenge of writing a composition using only 4 pitches, we are now in the midst of composing for body percussion and non-singing voices. Continue reading →

London streets to Romanian mountains

BA Music finalist Kath Roberts tells about her summer of music activities: Approaching what I called my ‘last summer as a proper student’, I was lucky enough to take part in a number of musical projects! The first was playing in the debut tour of the ‘Street Orchestra of London’, also known as SOL. Modelled on the Ricciotti ensemble in Holland, the orchestra was founded with the belief that “every human being has an equal right to enjoy quality live music. Continue reading →

Launching Soon – New Music Night for Southampton City

Starting this autumn, Soton students can get involved in a great new music night for the City of Southampton called PLAYLIST. Curated by five professional musicians, including several staff members from the Music Department, PLAYLIST will feature high quality music in amazing and unusual spaces. Continue reading →

The value of a music degree

The National Association of Music in Higher Education (NAMHE) has produced a series of short videos highlighting the value of studying music at university.The videos profile individuals in different careers – from theatre music composition, to community music, to professional performance and more – to explore how the skills you learn in a music degree can prepare you for life after university. Continue reading →

NCEM Young Composers Award

By Christian Drew, Music undergraduate student. The National Centre for Early Music’s Young Composers Award is held each year in York, giving emerging composers an opportunity to engage with early music performance and practices through the lens of contemporary composition. This year entrants were invited to write a lute song, setting a text from a list of poems by Shakespeare or Carol Ann Duffy. Continue reading →

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