Pianissimo sounds in the dead of night
With pencil and manuscript noting down the barely audible notes that were painstakingly discovered in dead of night while mum and dad slumbered.
Author Archives: Vic Berry
My guitar stories
“If There’s No Guitars in Heaven I Don’t Wanna Go” … an illustrated history of my journey with guitars
North Found
The clashing tonalities and haunting harmonies; joy and despair offered in equal measure. Like a piece of steel forged from coal that remained in the earth millions of years before the technology was available to ignite the industrial age. North Found has been sculptured from childish fragments shaped by wisdom and experienced hands.
The humble cassette tape, once convenient social media of the 70s & 80s, now reveal deeply personal sonic time capsules.
Another year has passed and more work has been done reviewing the Dumb Waiters archives of cassette tapes known as The Keele Tapes. Remaining Dumb Waiters, Jim and Vic have […]
Breaking free from convention, enjoying experience and dabbling with chaos
The improvisation starts with a tonal arpeggio followed by tonal clusters and then a melody culminates in a declaration of chords.
The tonal clusters give way to chromatic romanticism, reminiscent of early Schoenbergian motives that melt away to another declamatory statement.
Henry Moore’s father wanted his sons to be educated
Henry Moore’s dad believed education was route for his sons to avoid working down the local coal mine. Henry Moore, originally a lad from Castleford, made these figures long before the YSP was established in 1977 and yet they fit like a made to measure suit, in the landscape, echoing the gentle hills and slopes of the surrounding area.
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