Shirley Thompson OBE - South Downs Songbook - Composer Interview

00:00 Shirley Thompson South Downs Songbook Composer Interview
00:19 Composer backgrounds, influences and setting the scene for their piece
03:37 Getting started and choosing a stimulus
16:25 Particular music techniques and ideas (including how technology is used)
14:06 Structure in the compositions
26:05 Developing
31:04 finishing the composition
07:23 getting ‘unstuck’

Part of resources created by the Orchestra of Sound and Light's South Downs Songbook project

Further information: https://www.orchsoundlight.org/southd...

By commissioning contemporary songs and compositions Orchestra of Sound and Light are celebrating the South Downs as a place that inspires world leading writing, painting and photography

What we did:

live tour of newly commissioned songs and compositions by leading UK composers and student composers 20-30 June 2022

live composition workshops and performances Feb-June 2022
FREE digital resources pack including downloadable sound samples, photos, poems, paintings & prints, all inspired by the South Downs

workshops in schools and colleges across East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
four new five-minute songs for the Orchestra of Sound and Light
by four established UK composers inspired by the South Downs:
Evelyn Ficarra, Ed Hughes, Rowland Sutherland, Shirley J Thompson
online composer interviews and how tos (coming soon)
live performances of new works by GCSE and A level music students
an expanding online songbook

Site photographs by Sam Moore
http://sussexdronefilming.co.uk/

Project producer: Liz Webb for Liz Webb Management
https://www.lizwebb.org.uk/

Education consultant: Duncan Mackrill

Our Partners and Funders

Project funding from Arts Council England

Partner Schools and Colleges:

BHASVIC, Brighton
East Sussex Academy of Music, Lewes
Hastings Academy, Hastings

Partner Organisations:
South Downs National Park Authority