Northbrook students High Tyde interviewed on Annie Mac last night – their track ‘Dark Love’ is tune of the week on her show!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03kkty2
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Kideko & George Kwali on Annie Mac
Check out a little interview with ex- student Kideko on Annie Mac . His track Crank It with other ex-student George Kwali was the “Hottest Record In The World” on Friday!!
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Ex Student Wins BAFTA
Terence Dunn wrote the music to Edmond which won the BAFTA for Best British Animation Short 2016.
In 2014 Terence obtained a first class honours degree in Composition for Film and Media here at Northbrook . After securing a place at the National Film and Television School on the MA for composing for Film and TV, Terence was awarded the PRS foundation scholarship and the Alan Hawkshaw music scholarship.
His most recent projects include the BAFTA nominated feature documentary A Syrian Love Story (2015) by Sean McAllister for BBC1 Storyville, which won the grand jury prize at Sheffield Docfest and was nominated for best documentary at the European film awards. In addition he scored two BAFTA nominated animations; Edmond(2015) (winner of the BIFA prize for best British short film and the short film Jury prize for animation at Sundance), and BIFA nominatedManOmaN (2015), which was also selected for the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Previous work includes BIFA nominated Balcony (2015), winner of Flickerfest and selected for the Berlin film festival, Group B (2015) which was a finalist in the selection for a Student Academy Award and Slap (2014) which went on to be nominated for a BAFTA and won best short film at the Edinburgh film festival.
Terence employs a unique cinematic use of electronic, acoustic and orchestral styles, often blurring the lines between sound design and music, showing versatility, bold originality and careful consideration to narrative. He has also scored commercials for clients including Jaguar, Pepsi and Sony, commercially released two albums as artist Man Made Noise and was also a contributor for a compilation of Phillip Larkin’s Poetry set to music.
Davide Levi Assistant Conductor at Royal Opera House
Davide, a graduate of the Music Composition degree at Northbrook, is flying high in his conducting career. He has taken up a place as assistant conductor at the Royal Opera House, and is also conductor of the Janus Ensemble.
After graduating with a Distinction in Music Composition for Professional Media at Northbrook College (Brighton University), He moved back to Milan to study conducting with M° Parisi at the Conservatoire where he graduated in 2013.
After his debut conducting Mozart’s Serenata Gran Partita and Salieri’s Armonia per un tempio della notte with the ensemble Maestri&Allievi, Davide has conducted Cimarosa’s “L’Impresario in angustie” in a successful production in Milan. In July 2013, he conducted a series of concerts with I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan. He has worked as an assistant conductor for several opera productions in Italy and has collaborated with some of the finest Italian orchestras, amongst which La Verdi, I Pomeriggi Musicali and Sconfinarte, and the Jenaer Philharmonie in Germany.
Davide currently works as an assistant conductor at the Royal Opera House and as a freelance repetiteur and coach for opera singers. He is founder and conductor of the Janus Ensemble, an orchestra of young musicians that focuses on the performance of music by young composers.
As a composer, Davide has written music for full and chamber orchestra as well as solo instruments; he has been commissioned several works, including music for theatre, ballet and film. His music has been performed both in Italy and the UK.
He has worked, and still works, with artistic director Leighton Eves. The first collaboration took place in 2009, when Davide was asked to write two pieces for the fundraising Foodbank Event: choreographer and dancer Charlie Ranken beautifully interpreted his piece Abandoned, a contemporary and heart-breaking piece for solo dancer, while award-winning pianist Caroline Tyler performed his La Tempesta, for piano solo. The following year, Davide was asked to write arrangements for another fundraising event, Star!, which took place in Worthing, Winchester and Croydon.
He wrote the soundtrack for director Marco Bonfanti’s short films “Le Parole di Stockhausen” and “Ordalia – dentro di me”.
In May 2013, Davide composed and performed live the soundtrack for the theatrical piece “L’uomo che piantava alberi”, based on Giono’s short story. Working with director and actor Gabriele Finzi, actor Pietro Anastasi and talented scenographer Alba Sarompas, they managed to create a magical atmosphere that enraptured the audience.
Currently, Davide is collaborating with Larp Music on the production of The Merchant of Venice at the Almeida Theatre, London and with the dance company Pointe Ahead on exciting new projects.
Prototypes Odyssey tour takes you on a history of DnB
The Prototypes have announced their debut ‘Odyssey Mini Tour 2016’ in association with D&BTV. They’ll be performing with some of the most iconic, talented and original artists the scene has produced from the beginning, to the very present day… featuring Ayah Marar + Demolition Man UK + General Levy + MC Skibadee + Eksman + IC3 + Brookes Brothers + Joe Ford.
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Chris Garvey; one half of the Prototypes, is a graduate from the BA hons Music Production degree at here Northbrook.
J-Felix Rednet Recording Day
We invited special guest; J-Felix (Tru-Thoughts) to spend a day recording at Northbrook’s brand new studio facility. Focusrite also came down to watch as the new Rednet system was put through its paces, as one band played whilst being captured in various studios and software platforms around the department.
The Rednet system allows multiple studios to ‘dial-in’ to a live room and record the band; students recorded the band using a variety of DAWs such as Logic, Pro Tools and Ableton right across the department, all at the same time with no latency. The brand new network based audio system performed flawlessly with 20 computers all recording at the same time.
Watch: New Studio Build Update #3
Mick Feltham, Music curriculum leader, chats to the designers and builders of the new studio complex at Northbrook College about the progress of the project.
