Counterpoint
Counterpoint is the art of writing individual parts that have complete melodic independence from one another yet work in harmony and compliment each other perfectly. […]
Read More →Counterpoint is the art of writing individual parts that have complete melodic independence from one another yet work in harmony and compliment each other perfectly. […]
Read More →On Sunday the 6th December, we were booked as a string quartet comprising two violins, a viola and cello to record at the ‘Engine Room’ […]
Read More →Some of the work that String section does involves providing strings for composers or bands financing their own projects on a limited budget. People believe […]
Read More →On Sunday, we recorded a wonderful suite of pieces by the talented composer Philip Henderson. Assembled in MBJ studios were myself on violin, one violist, […]
Read More →In earlier blog entries, I wrote about how different bowing techniques can affect the sound of a violin or string section and how it can […]
Read More →Yesterday we were booked to provide a large string section sound for a dance track being produced by someone studying recording technology in Oxford. As the rest of […]
Read More →This week I was asked to produce a string arrangement for a dance track where they had to be very prominent. The brief was to […]
Read More →Yesterday we were asked to add some single viola and cello parts to a track by the acoustic band ‘Shy June’ (Stuart Denney and Gareth Edler) […]
Read More →The word ‘Glissando’ comes from a French verb ‘to slide’ and applies to any passage where one note slides rapidly up or down to another. […]
Read More →Recently we were asked to record a prominent violin solo on a large scale work – the client had approached us wishing to hire a […]
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