Author: alexparsons

Live Performance @ Sono Electro 2023

Delighted to have been invited to play a live improvised set at Sono Electro 2023, Hastings, curated by James Wilkie, Colin Booth and Jillienne Sellner. I’ll be joined by my good friend and collaborator, Joe Zeitlin for an improvised set of cello, violin and live electronics. The piece will be a direct response to the local ecology and our experiences in St Leonards, Hastings.

 

Soho Radio: Composers on Film

I’m so happy to have had the chance to join Gemma on her brilliant Soho Radio show, Composers on Film. I had the chance to select some of my favourite pieces of music, from Jonny Greenwood to Ernest Hood and of course, talk about my love for John Cage, whose work has inspired me so much. We also listen to some of my own music, including cues from Grayson’s Art Club, Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm, Surviving Covid, Black Power and an exclusive preview one of my cues from Hannah Berryman’s upcoming feature documentary about Coco Chanel.

Thank you Gemma, for inviting me on. I really enjoyed our conversation.

 

Listen Here

 

Tracklisting:

1 Jonny Greenwood House of Woodcock
2 Ernest Hood Saturday Morning Doze
3 Richard Reed Parry Symphony Brew
4 Alexandre Desplat Circles
5 John Cage In a Landscape
6 Rockfield Stud Farm For Shire Horses
7 Grayson Dead For a Year
8 Black Power Michael X
9 Surviving Covid Tobi
10 Coco Chanel A Space to Escape Death

Grayson’s Art Club soundtrack now available on all streaming platforms

My soundtrack for Grayson’s Art Club is now available to stream on all platforms, along with sone new music not included with the original Bandcamp release as well as reworks of some of the original material, featuring guitar from Dave Malkin and cello from Joe Zeitlin.

 

I hope you enjoy listening! If you do, don’t forget all proceeds from the Bandcamp release are being donated to the arts enterprise Workshop 305, so do consider donating via this link. Thank you!

Grierson Shortlist 2022

Fantastic to hear that this year, two productions I have scored have been shortlisted for the Grierson Awards 2022, both in the Prime Video Best Entertaining Documentary category. Huge congratulations to Jesse Vile and the team at Lightbox, for Curse of the Chippendales, and Hannah Berryman and the team at BBC Studios.

My score for Curse of the Chippendales will be available soon via Moviescore Media

In Cold Blood Wins the International Emmy

Delighted to hear that In Cold Blood has won the International Emmy in the Current Affairs category. Congratulations to director Marcus Plowright and the whole team at DSP

Produced by DSP for ITV Network, this feature-length documentary examined the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history. Directed by Grierson Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated documentary maker Marcus Plowright, this film told the story of how thousands of British haemophiliacs were infected and died from HIV and Hepatitis C after being prescribed infected blood products by the NHS. This landmark film offered viewers a vivid insight into the scale and impact of the tragedy.