2024 round-up: iPhone EP/book | Media Composing | ECSA-AEC/ORA Composition Mentoring | Directing | Writing
Composition, Compositional Processes, EP, Women in Musicsorana santoscomposing, composition, iphone, mentoring, composition mentoring, composition mentor, ecsa-aec, European Commission, ora singers, ora singers composition mentorship
10 things I tell students who’re concerned about making money from music
Things I came to know on my solo 4200-mile cross-continent ethnographic research trip. Pt. 1, People & Practicalities
'Nightwriter' Music/Book Premiere
10 ways I connect my work as a musician & writer
How I wrote, recorded, & designed EPs in 48 hours using just my iphone
sorana santosep, writing an ep, composing an ep, writing, composition, songwriting, field recording, sound, sound design, ep in 48h, phone
10 times I started from creative scratch
10 Rules I Learned to Live By Last Year to Optimise My Creative Freelancing
What I learned about indefinite embargoes for practice-as-research/creative PhD’s
10 things I learned self-funding my PhD (& masters): Pt. 2, mindset
10 Things I learned self-funding my PhD (& Masters): Pt.1, Money + 10 ideas for low-cost housing
Academic year-end round-up - AEC, ECSA, ORA, & Oxford, & CYM Composers/Songwriters
sorana santoscomposition mentor, Composition, the guildhall school, cym, Oxford university, venezuelan music, protest songs, European Commission, ecsa-aec, ora singers, ora singers composition mentorship, audiobook, ace-ecsa mentorship
Talk & performance on my research @ Wiltons for Poet in the City
sorana santosjoni mitchell, refuge of the roads, hejira, Wiltons music hall, poet in the city, potery, writing, writer, composer, performer, performing, singer-songwriter, music analysis, Improvised music, piano, piano playing, audiobook, the ways in which peace falls, ace-ecsa, ecsa-aec, ecsa-aec mentorship, composition, composing, composition mentor, European Commission, ora singers, ora singers mentorship, ora singers composition mentorship, composition mentorship, mentorship, tate modern
10 things that showed me I was ready to self-fund a PhD
Funding application hacks
Improvised Experiments w/Joe Wright | 'Books of Hours & Changes' audiobook now available
sorana santosimprovisation, Improvised music, Alex Merritt, text, writing, poetry, melody, sound, electronics, collaboration, our lady of stars, books of hours and changes, nova, universal music, audiobook, sound design
How I initiated & designed courses there were no precedent for (incl. one I was later invited to deliver at Oxford)
How I turned a closing course around & expanded it into more classes & courses
New Distribution Deal w/ The Orchard & DPR | Audiobook commission (voice/sound design) | Landscapes/Seascapes
sorana santosperformance, performing, singing, piano, piano playing, bobs, landscapes/seascapes, photographer, exhibition, audiobook, the ways in which peace falls, distribution deal, I dream sound, imprint
How Can You Live Your Dream In A Small Way? Pt. 3: Questions for Creative Focus When Stuck