excuse the mess

It was a supreme honour to work with Mr Elliot Galvin on a new track. We used his most portable of piano’s, his beastly Toy Piano.

Elliot is an ideas machine so this one came together quite quickly. If you don’t know the excuse the mess rules. We use only one instrument (we can manipulate further electronically), we can’t pre plan anything and we only have an afternoon to make our brand new piece. Listen to it all unfold within.

We hope you like! (If you do you're more than welcome to tell your friends about excuse the mess)

Here’s where to keep up with any Elliot gigs and releases:

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excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Tracklist:

Ism - Elliot Galvin Trio

Toy Guns (excuse the mess original) - Elliot Galvin, Ben Corrigan

Ghosts - Elliot Galvin

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Take a trip with me into the labyrinth-mind of my good friend Elliot Galvin. A jazz pianist & improviser, composer & electronic musician. He is often compared to the likes of Django Bates, although with the caveat that Elliot only sounds like Elliot.

We discuss his influences, his last two trio album Modern Times and The Influencing Machine, his soon to be released solo piano record AND his improvised duo album with saxophonist Binker Goulding. We covered much ground!

It was an honour to get Elliot on mic. I hope you enjoy the episode!

Here’s where to keep up with any Elliot gigs and releases:

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excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Tracklist:

Bikini Island - Elliot Galvin

Periodical Cicada - Elliot Galvin Trio

Time And Everything - Elliot Galvin

Aeturnum Vale - Elliot Galvin, Binker Goulding

Cat And Mouse - Elliot Galvin

Monster Mind - Elliot Galvin

Red and Yellow - Elliot Galvin

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Here it is, the second instalment of the Hidden Notes Festival adventure.

I took my podcast to Stroud to chat to a handful of brilliant artists taking part in this exciting new festival.

This episode features interviews with 4 artists involved in the second day's proceedings. I chat to organist and electronic musician Claire M Singer, record label runner [130701] Dave Howell, vocalist Hatis Noit and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk.

This episode also features music from the live performances and some field recordings made by Dave Howell whilst he was pottering about the venue.

I'm really grateful to the festival organisers Alex Hobbis and Adam Hinks for inviting me to make these interviews and create this podcast special. It was a hugely inspiring weekend and hopefully these episodes capture that.

Thanks for checking out this extra mess episode!

More links

Hidden Notes Festival

A Forgotten Landscape [Dave Howell field recordings]

Erased Tapes

excuse the mess

Good On Paper - Stroud Arts Magazine

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This music making process was one of my favourites so far - the track that Anne and I made is wacky and wonderful (and kinda funny).

We used a Casio VL Tone as our instrument (we only get to use one instrument), Anne has owned this beastie little keyboard since she was a child.

As with every one of these music making processes, we only have a few hours to start and finish the piece, we can't preplan anything and then we only use one instrument.

We hope you like what we made, we like it! A massive thank you to Anne for being part of the podcast.

Huge thanks for checking out excuse the mess - more episodes coming soon!

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excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Many, many thanks to Acast for hosting this podcast!

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Anne Nikitin is a very busy woman - a film composer with an extensive lists of credits, check out her IMDB page.

In this episode we mainly discuss two of her scores. Her Ivor Novello nominated score for American Animals (dir. Bart Layton) and a more recent release Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein (dir. Ursula Macfarlane). Both scores are brilliant and we dig into many aspects behind each score.

We get an insight into her nomadic upbringing, touch upon brexit troubles and get some brilliant top tips for budding film composers; Anne highlights the work ethic needed and some of the ways people get into the industry.

This episode was great fun to make, I loved hanging out with Anne and I'm very grateful she was able to make a bit of time for me in her very busy life.

Don't forget to listen to the music making part of our episode, it was a lot of fun, I think you'll like it!

Here’s where to follow Anne news:

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Visit etmpodcast.com

excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Many, many thanks to Acast for hosting this podcast!

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Music Making time! In each episode I write a brand new piece with each guest - Galya is one of the most sought after violinists working in the UK - what an honour to get to write something new with her.

The excuse the mess writing process demands that:

1. we don't pre plan anything
2. we only have that day to write our piece
3. we can only use one instrument that the guest brings with them - electronic manipulations are allowed!

We ended up writing a very dark, disorientating, droney track - the three D's. We hope you like it.

Give the excuse the mess writing process a go - i'd love to hear what you come up with. Send your etm tracks through to [email protected] and maybe I can include them in an episode or share on the website, or something... Anyways, just follow the above rules.

Thanks so much for checking out excuse the mess.

Links for keeping up with Galya news:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

visit etmpodcast.com for pictures from the day and more episodes.

excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Many, many thanks to Acast for hosting this podcast!

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The 3rd instalment of series two features one hell of a violinist and experimental composer, Galya Bisengalieva. She has worked with some of the biggest names in music and is now making large and dangerous waves with her original compositions - violin led music injected with a potent amount of electronics.

In 2018 she released EP ONE and this year released EP TWO. She commissioned some utterly brilliant composers to write and collaborate with her: Claire M Singer, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Shiva Feshareki and CHAINES. We discuss the thinking and processes behind each pieces in detail and you'll hear some chunky extracts of each; as well as two clips of music from composer Edmund Finnis.

Galya is also the orchestral leader of the London Contemporary Orchestra - a role in the classical world that was a bit of a mystery to me so I asked this very qualified person what it entails.

Thanks so much to Galya for bringing her wonderful words and energy to excuse the mess and thanks to you for checking it out.

Ben (host & creator of etm)

Links for keeping up with Galya news:

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visit etmpodcast.com for pictures from the day and more episodes.

excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Many, many thanks to Acast for hosting this podcast!

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Hannah and I make a sparkling piece of music using only her famous music box - a series of tuned metal bars housed in a resonating wooden box, a hole punched reel of paper is drawn through it and triggers the bars to sound, it's lovely!

Hannah gained much fame with her music box covers of classic songs, 'Tainted Love' being a prime example; which was used to great effect on many TV shows including American Horror Story.

Anyways, we're really happy with how our creation came out, we've called it 'Unbox' and we hope you like following us on the journey of writwriting the

music.

Thanks so much for checking out excuse the mess!

Here’s where to keep up with any Hannah news:

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excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Many, many thanks to Acast for hosting this podcast!

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If this guest was a top trumps card she’d win in every round. An Emmy nominated composer, electronic musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, conductor, arranger (….and on the list goes) - it’s Hannah Peel!

We discuss the process behind her Emmy Nominated score to Jeanie Finlay’s official Game of Thrones documentary, ‘The Last Watch’. 

Her latest album Chalk Hill Blue, an entirely improvised album, a perfect marriage between electronics and poetry with her collaborator, poet Will Burns. 

I hope you enjoy this deep dive into just a few of the recent project Hannah has been involved with. If you want more from Hannah you can check out the ‘extra mess episode’ we made back in November 2018 where we discuss some of her other fantastical projects. 

Stick around to the very end for a cosmic pondering with the help of physicist Carlo Rovelli.

Enjoy yourselves and do spread the word of excuse the mess!

Here’s where to keep up with any Hannah news:

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excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Many, many thanks to Acast for hosting this podcast!

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If you're a Gold Panda fan you're in for a treat. In this episode you'll hear us write a new brand new track together on the spot.

Derwin gets into a bit of a Gold Panda flow so this an amazing insight and a bit of a Gold Panda masterclass to be honest. We use the three vinyls bought earlier in the day to get our samples.

In every episode of excuse the mess I write a track with the guest but we have to follow three rules:

1. we can't pre plan anything
2. we only have that day to make the track
3. we can only use one instrument and electronic manipulations of it

Listen to how that composition process unfolds in this episode.

I hope you take away lots of wisdoms from hearing Derwin in action and thank you for checking out this podcast.

ENJOY!

Derwin links:

Twitter | BandCamp | Facebook | Fan Website

excuse the mess website

excuse the mess is gratefully supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and iZotope Audio.

Many, many thanks to Acast for hosting this podcast - great to be aboard!

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