Senior Stage Band Triple J Competition
Over the past 2 weeks, the Senior Stage Band have been working together online to write, compose and record a song from scratch for the upcoming TRIPLE J UNEARTHED HIGH radio competition. This competition is open to high-school students all around Australia, and is a great initiative to encourage up and coming artists to share their music with industry professionals.
Our Senior Stage Band were very excited to participate in this event, and have produced a very impressive Pop song in just 2 weeks. Students attended many Zoom sessions with Mr Mark, where they would share ideas and discuss the journey of the song. Once demo recordings were submitted of draft parts, Pierson Ford put it all together using music software of his own at home, and shared his screen during the Zoom sessions to develop the song with his band mates. Once the song structure and all parts were set, students recorded their final parts at home using their individual home-studio setups or just an iPhone! After 2 weeks of zooming, composing, writing, recording, arranging, producing, mixing, thinking, scoring, and laughing (lots of laughing!)…..the song is complete, and the song ‘Without You’ was born. The students have called themselves HASSLE STREET, and Mr Fisher kindly put together a photo of the students to form part of their submission.
HASSLE STREET is: Nicola M & Holly F (vocals); Joshua C (guitars); Tinashe M (keyboards); Pierson F (bass); Tomas S (drums); Petar L (saxophones); & Tahlia K (clarinet & saxophone). Huge congratulations to all of these students for achieving a great song, and the learning opportunities and experience of this process alone has been invaluable for these students. We can’t wait to find out the results and share the song with you all soon.
Mr Byron Mark
Director of Ensembles
