The First Of Many...

Hello there, and thank you for taking the time to visit my brand new blog! This blog is my attempt to keep a public record of the processes that I go through on a daily basis, that are all part and parcel of being a student composer. Hopefully this will allow me to look back on various aspects of my work in a more objective way and also enable you (the public/internet community) to look at my work from a different angle.

I should explain WHY I'm writing this blog in the first place, in order to set some ground rules and also give anyone reading this further insight into my studies. As a part of my MA in Music Composition, I take part in a module entitled 'Practice & Dissemination' in which we (the student) look at ways we can broadcast our work to a wider audience.

- Disseminate

verb (used with object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing. to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.

Ignoring the example about preventive medicine which unfortunately is not covered by any of my modules, you can see that to 'disseminate' basically means for me to show or broadcast my work to a larger audience. And herein lies one of the way in which to do that. BUT, when thinking about the many ways in which I could broadcast my work, such as Facebook, Youtube, Soundcloud etc, I began thinking about ways to exhibit not just the final, finished article, but the process and the journey along the way until I get to the very last note. The decision was made for me, "I'd start a blog". Here it is.

My intention is not to take this too seriously, I'm not going to be uploading recordings of 7 hours of guitar improvisation for the sake of it, but my aim is to use it in conjunction with my compositional process to see if there is anything to be gained from the experience of documenting as I go along, and also seeing if it prompts any knock on affects into other areas. E.G, hits on the blog would hopefully mean more hits on Soundcloud and vice versa, or perhaps performance or compositional opportunities directly because of any one of those 'broadcasting' mediums.

Anyway, I won't talk any longer, I'm just of to make a cup of tea and get to work on one of my pieces. Updates coming very very soon.

Thank you again for reading,

Liam Walsh.