Simon Thoumire Make Good Art

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Synopsis

I am a folk musician who likes my music to bend round corners...

Episodes

  • Lexy McAskill at FolkWorks 2015

    15/08/2015 Duration: 05min

    We made this track together in our mixed instrument group at FolkWorks 2015 in Durham. If you love learning and sharing music why not attend FolkWorks. Find out more here http://www.sagegateshead.com/tour-dates/folkworks-summer-schools-2015

  • Bounce (Live)

    13/08/2015 Duration: 02min

    I'm teaching at the brilliant FolkWorks Youth summer school this week and I'm working with a group of brill students. We've made lots of amazing music together and today we recorded a version of my Bounce track. This makes me laugh!!

  • Joseph Boseph Live in Parthenay, France

    13/08/2015 Duration: 04min

    This track was recorded in our B&B in Parthenay by me and Ian Carr. There's a video to come but I thought I would upload this in advance! More music at www.simonthoumire.com

  • Trip from Paris

    31/07/2015 Duration: 02min

    Many people travelling on the train in France will recognise this sound of the announcement speaker. I really liked it and made a track. I'm sure I'm not the first!

  • Trip from Paris

    31/07/2015 Duration: 05min

    Trip from Paris by Simon Thoumire

  • Shaken Not Stirred

    23/07/2015 Duration: 02min

    This is an ambient track featuring a shaking concertina. Definitely time for a martini.

  • Windscreen Viper

    16/07/2015 Duration: 04min

    It has been so rainy in Scotland of late I thought I would commemorate it with a composition duet with a windscreen wiper. It could be a trio if you include the two windscreen wipers... I think I've had this chromatic little air in my head for a while.

  • Tinto Duck

    09/07/2015 Duration: 01min

    I'm currently at Hands Up for Trad's Tinto Summer School in South Lanarkshire. It's an amazing week with brilliant young people and fabulous tutors. There is not a lot of time to think about anything so here is a wee jig to dance to!

  • Caravan Boogie

    03/07/2015 Duration: 01min

    I wrote and recorded this little tune in Loch Tummel caravan park just outside Pitlochry. It is a little tune but swings along!

  • Train Techno

    24/06/2015 Duration: 04min

    I was sitting on the train home last week when I heard this amazing train noise. I immediately thought train techno and got my phone out and recorded it! I'm also hearing a bit of The Beatles' Day in the Life naturally occurring in this train sound! Feel free to take this to no 1 in the charts...

  • Tobermory

    18/06/2015 Duration: 04min

    I was very lucky to receive fiddler Marie Fielding's new tune book the other day full of fabulous new tunes in a traditional vein. This particular air jumped out at me and I decided to write a string quartet to accompany it. If anyone would like a copy of the arrangement to play please contact me. ps my son wanted to call this piece 'slow down' after last weeks 'hurry up' but it was too predictable even though is definitely slower...

  • Hurry Up!

    11/06/2015 Duration: 03min

    A quick track I wrote for a possible commission. I'm in a rush today so not going to say too much.

  • Sorry I Can't Hear You

    04/06/2015 Duration: 01min

    This track show's the pearls of not listening. I recorded this track whilst listening to really loud music and I couldn't hear myself playing at all. I haven't gone for beauty here. I wouldn't recommend this as a style of recording.

  • Strathwobble

    28/05/2015 Duration: 02min

    Here's a wobbly electronic strathspey. Not much more to say than that.

  • Private Dancer

    20/05/2015 Duration: 02min

    Have you ever danced on your own with no one looking? Well I've written this music for you to dance to. There is no form, you can go as crazy as you like and it's only two minutes long. So it's a quick stupid dance and you will feel better for it. (I'm sure I'll get some spam with this title...)

  • William Marshall Reels

    14/05/2015 Duration: 02min

    I thought I would head in a traditional vein this week. 3 reels from one of Scotland's top fiddle composers William Marshall (nineteenth century). There are 3 tunes: Mr Alexander Laing's Hornpipe (E Major) Master Frank Romily (F Major) Mr John Angus' Reel (E Major) I think the final reel may have been played as a strathspey due to the 2nd part but it's too late to worry about that...

  • Dum Dum

    08/05/2015 Duration: 03min

    I wrote this track on election day. It features all the madness that goes in the run up to the election. It's noisy and primitive as all elections are especially this one (in 2015). This is also my second string quartet which I'll arrange in the next few weeks.

  • A' cheud luan do'n raidh - Scots Fiddle Duet

    07/05/2015 Duration: 10min

    A' cheud luan do'n raidh - Scots Fiddle Duet by Simon Thoumire

  • I want! I want!

    30/04/2015 Duration: 01min

    I found this picture on Twitter the other day. I had never seen it before but it turns out it is by William Blake. It is called "I want! I want!" and it's from his book for children "The Gates of Paradise". I looked at this picture and I thought that it might be about greed however I now think it is about someone wanting the moon so much - nothing is going to stop them getting it. It's a picture about finding away to solve problems and achieving a goal. Amazing wee drawing. Here's a link to the drawing http://simonthoumire.com/i-want-i-want/

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