(My first love) My first love……the piano For those who know me now, this statement may surprise you. My first love of a musical instrument was actually with the piano. Having moved into a new house when I was eight (8) years of age, my mother began playing her music. Much of the music album she played...
Category: DCI Phase 3 – Narrative-based Practice
This series of memory blogs that follow this Introductory blog are part of David L Page’s creative process – reflecting on selected significant events in the early stages of his life, and associating sonic and musical textures that best represent his memory of those significant events. The collection of associative memories will then be formed into a composition – The Dark Years: A Boy Who Was Beaten – which David L Page will produce as a fifteen (15) minute soundtrack of the first stage of his life. This cultural artefact is to make up Phase 3 of my Doctorate of Creative Industries Research Study Holistic Model of Authentic Practice – Narrative-based
Memory – Age 5
(Puffing Billy 2016a) My earliest recollection of trains are of Puffing Billy………. Train to freedom Train to Freedom©David L Page 2016 Puffing Billy was a train, but not just any old train… she was a train driven by steam… (Puffing Billy 2016b) She had had a life, carting logs down from the mountain ranges the...
Memory – Age 12
Water Fight audio (2016) Water Fight In primary school, I started what become very quickly, a whole school water fight. It started with one cup of water, then quickly progressed to large cups, then buckets, and then to garbage bins. What ever utensil that could hold more water and be quickly transported to where masses of people were,...