David Bruce
@davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social
Apprentice silence-improver. Composer: http://davidbruce.com ♫ Founder of http://8notes.com ♫ YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/dbruce ♫ Support my channel ♫ http://patreon.com/davidbruce
My new video talks about my journey as an artist, studying with great modernist composers like George Benjamin and Harrison Birtwistle before eventually figuring out how, to use a well worn phrase, to 'find my own voice'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cX4...
Why I stopped trying to write F***ing MASTERPIECES
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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David Bennett asks the same questions as my mum about being a composer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuh0...
New Video: Angine de Poitrine's Math Rhythms Explained www.youtube.com/watch?v=frXX...
Angine de Poitrine's Math Rhythms Explained
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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How to make a violin sound like a bagpipe. The guide you never knew you needed
LA performance of my new piece 'Natural Light' tonight with Camerata Pacifica
If you're in LA/Santa Barbara areas do come to one of the performances of my new wind quintet (actually a sextet because I'll be performing the optional gong part). Details below. Would love to say hi if you come cameratapacifica.org
Have you ever heard clarinet notes this high? Clip from my new video about the highest notes ever composed, featured clarinettist Petros Andreadis
New video - The Highest Note Ever Composed (and why)
The Highest Note Ever Composed (and why)
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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Check out my son's new channel interviewing online business people....like me 🎺🎺🎺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srj3...
How I Did It: 0-330k Subs In 5 Years At 50 Years Old
YouTube video by Oskar Bruce
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A new in-depth video on Gamelan and its relationship with 20th Century Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7M2...
When Cultural Appropriation is...OK?
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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Join me for a late night Prom featuring the piece I originally wrote for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, 'Cut the Rug', performed here by Avi Avital's amazing Between Worlds. 9th Sept 10.15pm. Rumour has it I might also be found in the Queen's Arms pub in the hours beforehand 😊 #bbcproms
Honoured to be the arranger of this first single "Tarantella di Sannicandro" from Avi Avital's Between Worlds album - out today, Full album out May 30 www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue... (oh and did I mention, we'll be at the BBC Proms in September 😍)
A few years ago @tantacrul.bsky.social made a hilarious and accurate video about Sibelius software which eventually led to us becoming good friends. He's now completed the last of the music notation review series with this fun look at Finale and its demise www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqao...
Finale - How Music Software Dies
YouTube video by Tantacrul
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Todd Palmer premiered Gumboots 17yrs ago in Carnegie Hall. This May 3rd and 4th he performs it again with Catalyst Quartet in Noe Music, San Francisco, and in Monterey Bay www.noemusic.org www.chambermusicmontereybay.org/cmmb/concert...
youtu.be/2rJY9g7bfSg New video out today. Rapping at the Royal College of Music
RAPPING AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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Great to meet and share thoughts and music with these wonderful composers at the first ever David Bruce Composer Workshop ). Video from the day will be up on my patreon later! Thanks to Ben Phair, Caroline Tyler, Camilo Espinosa, Anna Disley-Simpson, Kit McCarthy Photos Yannis Gutmann
Get your scores in for this composition prize and a change to get your piece performed by Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. I'll be on the judging panel :-) www.mitropouloscompetition.gr
A new video about the end of Sibelius's 5th Symphony is available on my YouTubes, entitled "Why so Grumpy, Mr. Sibelius?" youtu.be/iKgaQ-lHzcg
Why so Grumpy, Mr. Sibelius?
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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Over 50 applicants for my Composing Workshop in March, thanks to everyone who applied. Very much looking forward to meeting Caroline Tyler, Camilo Espinosa, Anna Disley-Simpson, Kit McCarthy and Ben Phair. The workshop will be available on my patreon.
Harmonium, celesta and soprano. Very cool combo!
Caroline Potter@carolinefrmus.bsky.social · last yr.The extraordinary Herzgewächse by #Schoenberg (that vocal line!) Fun fact: #Boulez played the harmonium in a 1945 performance and #Poulenc played the celesta part in 1921. Imagine if they had performed together in an ensemble... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qzk...
Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩
Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩
Jacob Collier's Audience Choir is a unique experiment in turning a crowd into an instrument. I break down how it works, and look at far its come - how to make cluster chords and modulations, just by waving your hands! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCN... @jacobcollier
The INGENUITY of Jacob Collier's Audience Choir
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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New Video: The INGENUITY of Jacob Collier's Audience Choir www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCN...
The INGENUITY of Jacob Collier's Audience Choir
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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I think this is something we all need a lot more of. Hendrix Star Spangled Banner on Multiphonic Bassoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1O...
Hendrix "Star-Spangled Banner" Bassoon multiphonic tribute
YouTube video by JayBassoon
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A new video all about the amazing mind of Ben Nobuto www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKz...
Ben Nobuto: Using SPLICE in Classical Music
YouTube video by David Bruce Composer
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