My 2014
I thought a brief summary of 2014 would be an idea because it was such an interesting year. The biggest news was receiving a Quality Production Award from Creative Scotland to record an album of my chamber music, write a… Read More »My 2014
mwhiteside
Composer and concert producer based in Glasgow. https://www.matthewwhiteside.co.uk/biography/
Summary of 2013
Its coming to the end of 2013 and I think its nice to do a bit of a summary of what happened to me and my music this year. As much for myself as to show everyone out there in… Read More »Summary of 2013
R-Space Talk Transcript
This is a transcript of a talk giving at R-Space Gallery in Lisburn on the 10th October 2013 at part of Firing Sound with ceramicist Andrew Cooke. I thought it would be a good idea to put the transcript on… Read More »R-Space Talk Transcript
RCS Talk 7-1-13
As promised to those today here is a link to download the various drafts of what I said at the talk. Its a zip file which contains 6 different versions: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37637874/RCS%20Will%20We%20See%20Light%20Talk.zip
Percussion part 2
I’ve spend the last month or so working on ideas for the percussion and electronics piece for Glynn. The initial idea I had was for a 7 min piece for drum kit and marimba. The piece began with a cymbal… Read More »Percussion part 2
Initial Thoughts Percussion and Electronics
Yesterday I had my first meeting with Glynn Forrest about a piece for percussion and live electronics I’m going to be writing him for the next Edit-Point concert. I hadn’t planned on going in with any preconceived ideas I simply… Read More »Initial Thoughts Percussion and Electronics
Blocking Ideas
This opera lark is a weird thing. When I was writing Puddle Wonderful I talked to the librettist, James Johnson, he wrote the words, I wrote the music, there was a bit of tooing and froing between us while I… Read More »Blocking Ideas
BBC Proms 2010 Prom 46
I’m just back from my first time at the proms and feel the need to write something about them more than just being a great experience. My first impression of the hall itself was simply ‘wow’, it just seems right.… Read More »BBC Proms 2010 Prom 46
Sometimes you have a craving…
Sometimes you have a craving. This craving manifests itself as a physical impulse, your body tells your mind ‘satisfy this craving’. Easily done if the craving is quite a general one ‘give me water’ or ‘give me food’ but what… Read More »Sometimes you have a craving…
Quick Post
This is a very quick blog simply because I only have abotu 5 mins of internet left. Sitting in a hostel in amsterdam after visiting paris and heading to berlin tonight. In paris we lost one of our group: he… Read More »Quick Post