Taking a breather for summer 2018!!!!
Week One - Bad Dog
Week Two - Gone to the Park
Week Three - #Hashtagz
Week Four - Magik Gemz
Week One - The Light Orbs
One of the best names EVER for a band - The Light Orbs came together quickly, wrote five songs together (in three days) and recorded with the Bad to the Bow jr fiddle group who popped in to jam with us. An amazing week!
Check out some pictures and music below.
Check out some pictures and music below.
Anchor Me
Week Two - SOUNDBIN
Week Three - Dandelion Lightbulb
Week Four - The Warning
The best summer camp for kids on the Sunshine Coast returns!
Summer of Rock 2015
Another stellar, amazing, unique, exciting, fun, grateful, empowering, awesome creative summer of rock! This year I held three rock camps and the first ever Sunshine Coast ukulele camp for kids! What a blast we had! My thanks to Ray Fulber at Strait Sound in Gibsons and Patrice Pollack in Davis Bay for providing awesome studios to create in. From graphic scores, to percussion jams, to kids getting to play on a baby grand piano, write and record songs...it was an amazing time. Here's some highlights both in sound and pictures. Keep in mind that these recordings happened at the end of one week of being together...Monday we meet, and by Friday we were a band playing our own songs! So proud of all these young musicians!
Week One - Allumimumati
In this camp we did a lot of graphic scores, which is such an amazing way in for kids to be a part of something larger than just themselves making a sound. The best part, is you really don't need to know anything about music. With my guidance, and using our own drawings, we "perform" these shapes and colours and ideas using musical instruments or voices. It's a tradition usually reserved for highly professional, "avant grade" musical genres. Why can't this concept of composition be for everyone? Below is one of the graphic scores that was created during workshops, and a recording of this group making sounds while looking at a drawing by Tiana, another one of my great students.
Week Two - Tricky Rhyme
These cats came and conquered! Most of these young lads had never played music before or had very limited engagement in the past. This all changed in a few days, and by Friday we were recording original songs, had shot some creative videos, made a pile of art buttons and formed new friendships.
Good times, Tricky Rhyme!
Week Three - SugaBlub
A super fun week of music and friends. We gathered on Monday at Strait Sound in Gibsons, learned a few instruments, wrote three songs, did a genre-hopping mash-up of the theme from "frozen" (you either know it or you don't) belted out "don't stop believin' and recorded five songs on the Friday. Below is a song that we worked up, featuring a sampled "A" note from Gab and Hanna, and then played on the iPad by Mia. This one had Nigel on the drums, Jimi on the guitar, Mia on turntable and iPad, Hanna and Gabrielle on the Grand Piano and Sebastian on the keys and drum machine. I played bass and made up the words. This was recorded live off the floor. Way to go, SugaBlub band!
Week Four - The Complications
After much deliberation and many sheets of paper, we settled on the band name "The Complications." We wrote "Complications" on a page, made up words that fit the first letter of each, picked two chords and off we went. We sang it from top to bottom, then in reverse order. Here's the short song caught on video!
This is a song written about the picture below.
We saw this during lunch at the Pier one day.
It kind of wrote itself, and was a good opportunity to talk about
perceptions, judgement freedom and safety!
We saw this during lunch at the Pier one day.
It kind of wrote itself, and was a good opportunity to talk about
perceptions, judgement freedom and safety!
