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NORMAN WORRALL
Norman Worrall came on to the music scene after a successful career as an academic psychologist, and has now been writing music for some nine years.
Most of his music is written for a combination of software instruments (as built into Logic Pro) and acoustic instruments (as available from various orchestral sample libraries).
The style of music-writing is one of layering techniques which emphasise forward movement of the melodic line, with harmonic construction being less of a focus. Much depends on the partly serendipitous discovery of riffs and sound groupings by working interactively with the computer rather than simply telling it what to do…
Over the past five years, working with colleague Marcus Korhonen, he has been incorporating visual images into film projects using Final Cut Studio. The first result of this collaboration was Imagined Planets. The most recent is Becoming Emily, a portrait of the nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson.
