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Simon Gray - ElectroAcoustic Music & Electronic Music, Photography, & Opinion in Birmingham, UK
Description
I was born at a very early age in 1970, & started learning the trumpet & the recorder at the age of 7 (thanks to a far sighted local education authority) & played in various youth orchestras, wind bands, & brass bands. At 10 I moved to a house in a different authority, & had to have a private trumpet teacher. Shortly after I started doing occasional Jazz workshops with Digby Fairweather & Stan Barker, which I found incredibly useful.
I spent most of the first year locked in the recording studio, learning just about every thing the teacher could teach me about music technology. I also developed an interest in what gets called 'World Music' (personally I despise the term, but have yet to think of any thing better), & this led me to have John Mayer, an Indian composer who did a lot of work in the 60s with the sax player Joe Harriot in 'Indo Jazz Fusions', as a composition teacher.
So now that I have a new career as a multimedia developer, I consider myself free to get back to thinking about & doing music properly again, without having to worry about whether people will like it, how much they will pay for it, whether I'm impressing the 'right people', & all that kind of stuff - I can just produce what I am led to produce. & that's the way I think it should be.
