Recent Music
The other night I sat down and worked out what my output has been this year (from Jan 1st) and I was shocked. I have written around 30 mins of music which works out about 20 secs per day. I… Read More »Recent Music
mwhiteside
Composer and concert producer based in Glasgow. https://www.matthewwhiteside.co.uk/biography/
Rhinos and Culture
Tonight I went to see Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco in the Brian Friel Theatre (Queen’s Film Theatre) because I knew one of the people involved. I had never heard of the work or even the writer but I’m glad I… Read More »Rhinos and Culture
Consonance and Dissonance
It was Schoenberg that said there is no such thing as consonance or dissonance any more. This seems like a reasonable statement to make but after almost 100 years those terms are still used with regard to music within that… Read More »Consonance and Dissonance
If that Music or Just Another Radio
The sound of silence is the sound of nature, but the sound of nature is not silence. Silence will stretch on eternally while each sound no matter how long or short is only a micro-sound in the time scale of… Read More »If that Music or Just Another Radio
Concerts
Three months have gone by and not even one update, I feel ashamed of myself considering the amount that has happened. October saw the continuation of rehearsals for the opera, there was quite a lot of stress and a few… Read More »Concerts
Music for Musicians
My first blog in a while is more a musing on art and culture than a random babbling on what I have been doing. This was inspired by a conversation on twitter between @jamiebullock and myself from the question “contemporary… Read More »Music for Musicians
Home
It has been almost a month since my last blog. Since then I have been in Prague, Krakow, Budapest, Vienna, Rome, Geneva and Barcelona. I was planning to try and blog as I went around Europe but that didn’t happen.… Read More »Home
Berlin/Prague
We have decided there is a curse on leaving cities after more than a day. On the way to checking out in Berlin Laura decided it would be a good idea to fall over on her ankels while carring her… Read More »Berlin/Prague
Berlin
This will hopefully be a fuller update. In a hostel with free Internet and wireless so have borrowed my friends iPhone so there will prob be some typos. Paris was pretty good though getting list at 2am is fun but… Read More »Berlin
Before Leaving
I leave to Paris and inter railing tomorrow! Will be trying to update this thing on my travels maybe with pictures but more than likely just with text. Away for a month and heading round Europe clockwise form Paris to… Read More »Before Leaving