Ilan is a British film composer who has established himself as an exciting young talent in the world of film music. Born in London into a musical family, Ilan grew up playing violin and later took up playing guitar in bands. He studied Music and English literature at Leeds University, during which time he also worked with film composer Ed Shearmur learning first-hand the technique of film composition. After graduating, he went on to work with other film composers such as Michael Kamen and Hans Zimmer. At this time Ilan began scoring his own projects, and his talent for creating cinematic music on a limited budget soon gained him recognition within the film industry.
Still Making Waves
Students and staff share new works in Clothworkers A concert of electronic music by students and staff at the School of Music took place on 9 June, the second concert in the Making Waves series. The programme was presented via 13 loudspeakers surrounding the audience on all four sides.
The programme included tape pieces by undergraduate composers Michael Waters and Jason Lightfoot, whose work featured the destruction of a guitar and a montage of recorded soundscapes, respectively.
A third tape piece by lecturer Dr Ewan Stefani explored the aural equivalents of the camera obscura, while a work for bass clarinet and electronic processing by Thomas Bush, whose 12 short movements were each based on one of the astrological star signs.
A multimedia work by Rich Thomas included surround sound audio, video, a loudspeaker hidden outside the Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, some dramatic lighting and a smoke machine.
There were also improvised pieces by postgraduate student Grigore Burloiu and a trio of undergraduates, all of whom used electric guitars with various forms of sound processing, and a guitar performance by postgraduate Jeff Smith, who utilised a piano hidden in a cupboard with a brick on the sustain pedal.
Commented Dr Stefani: ‘This was an extremely varied concert, enthusiastically received and well attended’. The event will be followed up by further performances in January and May 2011.
Date Published: 30 June 2010
Keywords: Making Waves, Ewan Stefani
Keywords: Making Waves, Ewan Stefani
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