Royal Welsh College Music Students Compose Their Own Soundtracks for the New Facilities

Contemporary Music students at the College have been inspired to compose a soundtrack to accompany a 3D animation of the College’s £22.5 million new buildings.

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The Contemporary Music department challenged its students to interpret this innovative animation, putting their own spin on the architect’s vision.

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology you can visit these new world-class facilities before they’ve even opened. The 3D ‘flythrough’ takes the viewer on a virtual journey into College via the glass-lined foyer, with its spectacular views of Bute Park, up into the 450 seat Chamber Recital Hall, along one of the internal bridges and into the 160 seat Richard Burton Theatre.

John Hardy, Head of Contemporary Music commented, “It is rare, in my experience, if not unique, to have a chance to make a soundtrack for a two-minute movie, with no voice-over or dialogue to be careful about, showing off the stunning architectural features of the building that is taking shape all around us right now. The quality of the film is so high, and the ambition and design of the new parts of the college are so inspiring, that many of our students found time to respond with a stunningly wide range of different musical reactions to the concept & imagery”.

Jason Flanagan, architect, BFLS: “It was very exciting and inspiring to see how the Royal Welsh College composition students used music in such different ways to explore and characterise the new spaces we have created for them, and to see my own work set to music!”

Student contributors:

  • Thomas Floyd (BMus Composition, Year 4) & Jack Melham (BMus Creative Music Technology, Year 4)
  • James Flight (BMus Composition, Year 3) & Matthew Clark (BMus Composition, Year 3)
  • Timothy Wilson – BMus Composition, Year 3
  • Benjamin Vaughan – BMus Composition, Year 3
  • Lawrence Whitehead – BMus Creative Music Technology, Year 3
  • Sophie Lynch – BMus Creative Music Technology, Year 1
  • Samuel Barnes – BMus Creative Music Technology, Year 1

 

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