Tantacrul

In this video, I break down the UX/UI design of Steinberg’s Dorico - an increasingly popular music notation software that competes with AVID’s Sibelius. To help me look at how the experience has been designed, I test it out on real musicians and documented my own experience trying to compose in it too. Is it seaworthy? Does it float? Well... yes it does... but there be jank in them there waters...

In this video I describe how I wrote intro music to parody the abysmal American anime, RWBY (the intro song is for Hbomberguy's video: "RWBY is Disappointing And Here's Why"). In the video, I discuss the anime songs and tropes that I decided to parody, followed by an explanation of my song writing: how I sketched out the harmony, recorded and mixed the parts and wrote the lyrics. Oh, anime lyrics are a funny thing... At the end, you can hear my lovely anime song in all its glory! The music isn't copyrighted, so you can have it for free too!

The Piano Trio is one of the most popular chamber ensembles in classical music. In this video I discuss how composers write for it and why it's difficult. Along the way, I look at one of my own compositions along with examples (with sheet music) from Telemann, JS & JC Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Clara Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Andriessen, Morton Feldman, Gordon McPherson, Donnacha Dennehy, Jonathan Harvey, etc. I also describe my own writing process too, drawing on a great performance of my work by the Fidelio Trio.