Music
Delve into the inspiring works of our students from the Music department.
Student work
Find out more about our students' projects from the Music department.
Sports Fortune - Jay Febrey
Sports Fortune is an live electronic performance project, which explores experimental dance music through looping, sequencing, and improvisation. For this show, Jay developed a custom script that syncs sound and visuals in real time, allowing the projections to react to the audio and transform with each performance. This creates a unique experience every time the work is staged. The visuals were designed by Jay, with additional assets for the track Lungs created in collaboration with visual artist Lilly MacGillivray.
The project draws inspiration from the Chemical Brothers’ use of bold, immersive visuals that illuminate performers from behind, and from Four Tet’s fluid live approach of reshaping loops and layering effects to reimagine tracks on the spot. Sports Fortune is ultimately an exploration of synthesis, evolving soundscapes, volume, intensity, and the possibilities of live electronic performance.
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The Roebucks - Sophie Audibert-Moloney, Tom Cotter, Lola Gordon and Henry Brown
The Roebucks are a four piece from Brighton, fronted by two female lead vocalists, whose idiosyncratic take on blues rock is at times woozy and tender, at other times earthy and visceral. While the band have been around since 2022, the addition of drumming /vocalist powerhouse Sophie Moloney in early 2024 has seen the band truly hit their stride in terms of elevating both their songwriting and their live performances to a whole new level. Lush three-part harmonies interlace with Dwayne Allman-esque riffs and the tightest of rhythm sections to conjure up their own uniquely warm take on a familiar genre.
Find out more about the project on Instagram and Spotify.
Resonance: The Sound of Human Connection - Joe Barnett
Joe's performance programme was inspired by human relationships, be they with friends, family, romantic partners. It was a mix of cover songs and originals to match the theme and subject matter of the performance.
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A Nature Walk Through Psy-Trance - Pagan James
Join Pagan in a psychedelic exploration of the mind, through juxtaposing elements of electronics and nature. This 30-minute non-stop musical journey invited you to dance your way into a trance immersing yourself in the sounds of nature, and electronic synths, and the inherently natural sounds of human expression, like singing. With hypnotic bass and drums helping open minds to the sounds to the ideal of natural sounds, even in the least natural sonic landscapes.
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The Horror Genre - Aimee Beaumont
In this project, Aimee looka at the way music works in different audiovisual media. She picked two different mediums, a video game and a sound film, and keeping the genre the same, in this case horror, she explored how she could utilise the same musical content, such as the same samples, instruments and parts of melody, in different contexts. Both of the clips include different sounds but there is also content which is featured in both. Both clips have similar aims, to build tension for the viewer and add to the atmosphere of the scenes. One, however scores mainly a voice whereas the other scores visual elements, making similar yet contrasting results.
Pedal Dystopia - Freddie Brown
Freddie's project aims to investigate how the pedalboard extends the affordances of the guitar. The audio file demonstrates a steady transfer of control from the guitar to the pedals, showing their power to reshape the tone into something entirely different. His project explores how these pedals act as a gateway into new genres, allowing guitarists to enter the world of synth music, using the guitar as a familiar interface. Furthermore, exploring the recent boom of boutique pedals, he shows how these offer a wide range of affordances from abstract effects like pitch shifting your delay tone or adding noise and wobble to your tremolo, to controlling pedals using an interactive, wearable, MIDI transmitting device.
Piano Treio in Fm: Movement One - Connor Johnson
This first movement of a Piano Trio in F minor explores the fusion of Classical structure and Romantic expressiveness within the framework of 'Absolute Music.' Scored for piano, violin, and cello, the composition adheres to sonata form, blending formal clarity with emotional intensity. Inspired by composers such as Clara Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, and Franz Schubert, the piece foregrounds thematic development, harmonic nuance, and instrumental equality. Original features include a chromatically rich development section and a recurring primary theme that evolves across all three instruments. The trio honours chamber music traditions while asserting a distinctive, personal voice rooted in Classical balance and Romantic depth aesthetics.
Advanced Composition Project - Ted Godfrey
As a kid, Ted always wanted to go to Japan, and was finally able to do so in the form of a study abroad program. Ted wanted to tell a fictional story of a character going on a journey, an adventure, in the form of a collection of tracks in the Artcore genre. But it also has a deeper meaning, a story that is deeply rooted in his own experience. However, due to the limitations of the brief, this would be considered as more of a summary of the experience, and not told in a chronological, linear order.
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The Exile - Ferhad Feyssai (Farhad Haj Ahmad)
"The Exile" is more than just a performance—it's Farhad's story. It is a journey of departure, longing, memory, and renewal. Through these four songs, he shares his path as a Kurdish musician: from the echoes of forgotten melodies, to the heartbreak of forced migration, and finally, to the healing power of love and new beginnings.
Advanced Performance - Evie Anya Mollie Tolchard
In her performance, Evie combines different genres and decades of song with the theme of self-conflict and self-identity. She hopes to display a meaningful performance delivered with confidence and power. She chose seven songs to perform with a range of dynamics, including some power ballad songs as well as some acoustic songs.
Louis Myatt: It's Only Live Once - Louis Myatt
A repertoire of piano pieces all by Japanese composers (Joe Hisaishi, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takashi Yoshimatsu), which also includes piano piece Louis composed. This was inspired by the harmonic and tonal commonalities observed between the Japanese pieces he chose, such as the beautiful use of negative space and dense chords. It ends with an electronic piece which started out as an ambient version of this piece but mutated into something else entirely.
