Film Orchestra Course

21 Jun 2019 Film Orchestra Course, Orchestra Courses, Projects, Tinderbox Orchestra, Videos 1

1 year since Looking for Lucey!

What a time we had at the EIFF and it’s mind-blowing that a whole year has passed since then – we thought we’d take proud little look at one of the brilliant films we composed music for and performed live to film at the festival.

Please enjoy our live score for Looking for Lucey🙂!

Huge thanks to Moving Image Archive, Edinburgh International Film Festival (Young & Wild), The University of Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections and MSc Film, Exhibition & Curation students (2017-18).

19 Oct 2018 Film Orchestra Course, Projects, Tinderbox Orchestra, Videos 0

Moving Music / Edinburgh International Film Festival

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Wow. We wrote 45 minutes of original film music and performed it live to screen, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival!

Check out highlights from the performance!

16 May 2018 Blog, Film Orchestra Course, Orchestra Courses, Projects, Tinderbox Orchestra 0

Moving Music with the Tinderbox Orchestra

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We kicked off our orchestra courses in April, with two groups scoring a total of five films! Both orchestras have been working hard to come up with really exciting & creative film music that enhances the stories & atmospheres in the films. In particular our Advanced Orchestra started off by composing really beautiful experimental musical ideas to accompany a compilation of animated & filmed work by Eric Lucey. We’ve been playing with minimalist musical motifs to create different levels of tension, and we made a timed “graph” that matches the scenes in the film to plot the shape & dynamics in the music. Oh, and we’ve also been playing some fun musical games together! 🙂

We’ll be playing our film music live to screen as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival – catch us on Fri 29th June 7pm at Central Hall, Tollcross!

Luci – Programme Director

27 Mar 2018 Blog, Film Orchestra Course, Projects, Tinderbox Orchestra 0

Tinderbox visit the Scottish Film Archive

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As part of our upcoming film orchestra course (April – June), we had the pleasure of visiting the Scottish Film Archive with members of the band to select the films we’ll be scoring new music for!

We met with Emily of the SFA who took us through the film archives and gave us brilliant insight into Scottish film history. Here’s what sax player Sonia had to say about the visit 🙂

Today’s visit to Glasgow’s film archive proved to be both fascinating and inspiring. There we were shown a range of silent films that sparked our imagination for this year’s Tinderbox project. This visit gave us the opportunity explore ideas for the music and performance, by viewing a collection of amateur films and documentaries. In the end (although the decision is hard) a few films stood out to us that we will hopefully be able to work on in the near future!

For more soon make sure and catch our live performance to the films at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, June 2018!