Psychospherix: lights, camera, action, no guitars.
A viola player has had enough and decides to learn the accordion. He goes to the music store and, after carefully choosing his instrument, has to be restrained by the shop manager.” What are you doing?” says the viola player. The manager replies “whilst you can have any of the instruments off the shelf, I’m afraid…
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Psychoral: singers, tour leaders, and a rhythm section
Considering how difficult it has been to get one cajon player to work on my projects, the chances of getting eight singers to be part of the Psychospherix empire may be just a pipedream but I am going to give it my best shot. The choir members will not only have to be expert singers (reading…
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Gatwick on the Orient Express
A ticket on the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul will set you back £50,000, whereas, for only £35, you can take the Gatwick Express all the way from Brighton…
Seven Days
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. If you had to choose a song with a day of the week in the title, what would you choose? We have taken…
Brighton Blue
An ode to cheese, coffee, trains and tango. “Brighton Blue” is an innovative performance piece that marries live music with engaging video backgrounds to explore four quintessential aspects of local…
The Balcony Concerts
We are small! 2 musicians that sound like a whole band can be an incredible advantage when you want live music but only have a small space. And because we…
No guitars – PLEASE!!!
ChatGPT, however much I praise it at times, can be supremely infuriating at others. As I update some of the website, here is a conversation I had yesterday to get an image for the main section. You said: Give me an image to start the main Psychospherix section – two musicians on the Brighton seafront.…
Music for GOTOE
I’ve been putting together a playlist (see below) of material for Gatwick on the Orient Express. The idea is to mix train-related songs with those that have a connection (however loose) with the cities that the Orient Express stops at. There are plenty of songs with the word “train” in the title, but having used…
Brighton Blue: 1st rehearsal
On a rainy Thursday afternoon, the ballroom is in the pink as we struggle to set up the projector, the centrepiece of our storytelling. Annoyingly I can’t get the file to run. I finally realise that I am using the wrong remote. As the echoes of ‘Train Keeps a Rolling’ begin to fill the room,…
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