Sita – Queen of Ramayana
Celebrating Sita through the raga Hemavathi is my interpretation of a young bride finding her feet in the forest of l...
🔒 Absence and Updates
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🔒 Another Speed-Carol!
I speed-wrote a carol for an anthology! I discovered unexpected things about what seems to make a carol a carol.
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🔒 Picking Up The Scent
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Tea with fellow composers Ayanna and Marc
Exploring synesthesia, tea and composition rituals.
Ever wondered what music tastes like?
In this video, Supriya talks about the role food & cooking plays in her music.
🔒 It’s been a while . . .
Hello Patrons! It’s been a while, so here is a general update to tell you what’s up and down in my compos...
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Interview with Supriya – Part 1
On synesthesia, life in Yorkshire, and how a project with Jarvis Cocker led to her debut album.
Interview with Supriya – Part 2
On challenging stereotypes, leaving a career in banking for music, and reflections on being a composer later in life....
🔒 Sneak peek at album!
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🔒 Anthropocene in Bielefeld – quick update
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🔒 Could it be more composer growth?!
I broke a pattern and avoided making one of my favourite mistakes. Who knew this was possible? Let’s enjoy this...
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Off-beats on the brain
🔒 Easter Update
Hi Patrons,
Hope you enjoy this festive update below and wishing you a fantastic Easter break.
Best wis...
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Premiere Night: The Upshot
After my “Premiere Night: Mini-Update”, I thought I’d let you know how the whole thing played out i...
🔒 Short film commission a.k.a. “The Collaborat...
Fruits of a collaboration failure! I thought it would be fun to share something that nobody else will ever hear!
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🔒 Remixing The Conference
Last year, I was invited by Music Patron to create a moment of joy for BAFA: the British Association of Festivals of ...
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🔒 Premiere Night: Mini-Update
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🔒 Recording a new album
I’m in the process of recording a new album. I’ve decided to try a different approach to making it and it’s pro...
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Patron-inspired piece!
Inspired by my earlier update, I decided to get right on and follow my own advice. Feeling much better – thank ...
🔒 A little squashed, a little bruised.
Is this a diary entry? Is this a big life, self and career realisation? I can’t see the wood for the trees at t...
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🔒 Writing by hand – a soundscape
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Lunchtime piano impro TOMORROW!
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🔒 Royal College of Music: Music and Ideas
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🔒 Composer Growth? A Rambling
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🔒 A Transport of Delight
A fragment of a live performance using guitar and Ableton electronics.
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🔒 January Update
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🔒 An important memory
Doing my tax return and going through old diaries lets me relive – whether I want to or not – my past mon...
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🔒 What I’m currently up to, and an insight int...
The realities of composing a part of a busy life.
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🔒 What’s in a name? Part 2
A slightly different format to the last update (text and audio rather than video), but on a similar theme – nam...
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
A series of interviews with our Music Patron composers talking about their musical inspirations and what life as a co...
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Look Mum, No Hands! Trailer
Last year I composed the score for Look Mum, No Hands! After a country-wide tour, they’ve released a t...
🔒 The pianist meets the composer?
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🔒 Mini-update a.k.a. A teenage composer in a grown-u...
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🔒 Festive Update
Hey Patrons,
I hope you enjoy this festive update.
Best wishes
Ayanna x
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
A series of interviews with our Music Patron composers talking about their musical inspirations and what life as a co...
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
A series of interviews with our Music Patron composers talking about their musical inspirations and what life as a co...
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
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🔒 Boredom Grinder: A Playlist
A nine song tour through my musical tastes: songs that energise, inspire, surprise and confound me. Gay church folk m...
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A
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🔒 What’s in a name? Part 1
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🔒 Playlist of Inspirations
I thought I’d make a playlist of music that has shaped me as a composer and musician over...
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🔒 Pre-Christmas Update.
Welcome to my Pre-Christmas Update.
In this update I’m sharing a few music clips from my forthcoming Ban...
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🔒 My composition process for a recent London Sinfoni...
I wanted to take you through the thought process and working method of how I write for commissions.
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🔒 The earliest of drafts!
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🔒 It’s a premiere night 🤩
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🔒 It’s been far far too long…
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Invitation
🔒 Imaginary Flowers: A Sketch
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🔒 Preparation for recording session
A quick video update about some of the preparations for my upcoming recording…
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🔒 Wodwo – single release tomorrow!
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🔒 Supersonic Mirth 🎄
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🔒 LSO Percussion Commission Update
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I have an update for you on my LSO Percussion Ensemble Commission in this v...
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Performance Updates and Sound Extracts for October...
Hello Patrons!
Here is a brief update of a few upcoming performances in Sheffield on October 26th along with s...
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🔒 Queer Intelligence
An audio postcard about a new sound design and composition commission: featuring Chelsea Manning and a cryptic voice-...
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🔒 A New Camera Setup for My 60th Birthday.
I will be updating with more directly music-related posts very soon, but in the meantime, there’s this!
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Ordering the tracks…
Ordering pieces for a new CD with Lotte Betts-Dean / Sequoia / Delphian records.
Today I̵...
🔒 Wildflower
‘Wildflower’ – a special commission that has made my childhood dreams come true 😍
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🔒 Using live electronics in improvised concerts R...
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🔒 New work update
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Another Morbid Mini-Piece!
It’s still that time of year for me where grief is at the front of my mind. Here’s another tiny piece tha...
unedited full interview with Shabaka Hutchings
🔒 Replugging in my creativity
Returning to London having conducted and arranged a baroque opera left me quite out of touch with the boundary-free s...
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The Connection Between Music, Painting, Landscape ...
In this video, I talk about how I establish meaning in my work through the act of interpretation and how meaning and ...
The Beginnings of a New Composition 🎥
The story of how a sprinkler on my morning walk was the launchpad for a new composition idea.
Singing lullabies under the moon at WOMAD
Anyone up for lullabies ? I have enclosed a clip of my recent WOMAD adventure and happy to sing many more and send sh...
New album release – Posse of fireflies
So excited about my new album release!!!!!!!! Please check out the music on Bandcamp
In Memoriam: Gordon Crosse 1937-2021 A private vie...
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I’m trying something a little new in this update. I’m releasing a patron-only previ...
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New website blog post
🔒 A new opera?
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The Sounds of The Camino de Santiago 🎥
A ten minute taster of the Camino de Santiago (Portuguese Way), seen and heard through a musical lens.
🔒 New LSO Commission (Percussion Ensemble)
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I’m delighted to let you in on the very early creative stages of my new commission from the...
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What Connects my Music and Paintings? An introduct...
In this latest update and following requests from a number of people, I’m taking time out from painting and com...
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🔒 More Exciting Organ News
In this update, I talk about the initial stages of composing a new body of organ music for Thomas Mellan and where I&...
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🔒 Recording of “Outside” with commentary
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A Postcard from Greece
🔒 I’m back from the depths of Arrangerland (so...
Just me chatting to the camera in a heat wave about everything I’ve been up to preparing for opening our produc...
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See how they run; – Ligeti Quartet Workshop
🔒 What do you think about my new musical experiment?...
A brand new compositional journey for me blending my Indian heritage with my British home and life, How does it sound...
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🔒 Sneak preview – Ultima Thule
I’ve just received a recording made by the brass department of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of a short pi...
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🔒 Rehearsal for new project
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The Right to Write: Composition and Ageism
When you’re told you are too old for music commissioners and promoters to take any notice of you, you realise s...
🔒 Special live show next week 🤩🎵
Special live show next week 🤩🎵
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🔒 The Blue Woman Rehearsals
What I’ve learnt during the Blue Woman rehearsal process…
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🔒 Introduction
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🔒 My garden in June – exclusive preview
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🔒 FAIYA! – London Symphony Orchestra @ Trafalg...
Hey Patrons! I have a new update for you about the premiere of FAIYA! commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra.<...
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🔒 Setting Emily Brontë’s ‘The Prisoner&...
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🔒 Singing in Porto and Oz
Had a glorious trip to Porto, Lisbon and now soaking the sunshine in the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Concerts, composi...
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🔒 International collaboration: Thomas Mellan and the...
In this update, I talk about my latest international collaboration with Boston-based Organ maestro and amazing all-ar...
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🔒 Work in progress – incarnadine (Patron only)
I’m making a new live performance version of incarnadine – become a patron to find out more abo...
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🔒 Bits of Me: Video 1
The first in a series of videos where I introduce myself to you properly. Here is a behind the scenes video of me and...
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🔒 Music Patron Video Postcard May 2022 🎥
I’m writing because I’m about to go on a big adventure – one of the biggest of my life so far.
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The Quips: Movements 1, 2 and 3. 🎥🎵
Higher quality recordings of three audio collages and music videos that I co-created with my collaborator, Gemma Nas...
🔒 Work in progress: The final performance of Mood In...
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Penultimate Draft – Behind the Composer Scen...
I’ve just had a composition lesson with Benjamin Oliver; he suggested that this piece perhaps needed one more s...
Work in progress: first rehearsal for a concert on...
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🔒 Work in progress: Arrangements for a concert on 26...
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🔒 There she is!
She’s been opening a show! Here’s a sneak peak of what I’ve been up to, MDing Passion by Sondheim i...
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🔒 Mento Mood (for String Quartet) with Audio Comment...
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🔒 Who do you think I am?
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🔒 The Blue Woman- Production Meeting Insight
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Piano + Perfect Game of Snake = …
🔒 Thank you!
A thank you message for my supporters on Music Patron!
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🔒 Introducing myself + an audio commentary (recorded...
Audio commentary on my piece ‘Meltwater’, part of my upcoming TERRARIUM project which explores the micro-worlds w...
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🔒 Composer Commentary: i only bite because you make ...
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🔒 Welcome Patrons – Thank You!
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🔒 Thank you for supporting me
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🔒 The Score for Ishtar
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🔒 Audio Commentary on Ishtar
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🔒 Thule – music with audio commentary
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🔒 Thank you!
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🔒 Teaser for a future album track – exclusive ...
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