Research Rangers
Victoria Park is awash with mystery and magic, in the disguise of a regular park. Only it’s not so regular, is it? Like the mystery of the missing stags. Where are they? Can you help solve their mystery? The stags that ...
Jobs
Trainee Sound and Music Technician Are you interested in a career in the arts? Are you 18-24 years old and in receipt of Universal Credit? If so, come and learn with artist and composer Emily Peasgood. No experience is ...
CRP Artwork Resources
Call for Thanet Residents! Thank you for your interest in contributing sound recordings to this new artwork in Thanet. To participate, please complete this short online form and watch our short video playlist for guidelines about ...
Children’s Songs That Transcend Time [I Would Rather Walk With You Process Blog #2]
Listen to songs from pre-1800s sung by children and adults today! Summary: When lockdown happened, I created parts of my new community artwork online. I worked with local people, teaching them to create sound effects on personal devices to ...
Portfolio
This website page provides a summary of key works undertaken since 2017 with an accompanying audio file containing a short extract from each work. Please play the audio file below while browsing this page. For more information about specific ...
The Volunteer Revue in Dover [I Would Rather Walk With You Process Blog #1]
What happens when you ask people to reimagine a melody lost in time? Summary: When lockdown happened, I had to create parts of my new artwork—I Would Rather Walk With You—online. Previously, I planned to work with the local community in ...
Cambridge North Folk Song Project Participants
Welcome to Cambridge North Folk Song Project! Update 25 May '21: This project is now complete and the book can be viewed here. Original Open Call: If you'd like to be involved in contributing stories, ideas and writing songs for ...
I Would Rather Walk With You Participants
Thank you for registering to take part in contributing recordings for I Would Rather Walk With You. This page contains helpful resources to assist you. If you have any questions or would like to chat about your contribution, you can email me on ...
Process Blog #2: Requiem for Crossbones
Traces of plots that never were... 8th May 2018 - At Crossbones graveyard, there are no distinguishable plots or grave markers to acknowledge the dead. It is a paupers graveyard. Its occupants had very little, and their funerals were paid for by ...
Process Blog #1: Requiem for Crossbones
5th May 2018 - I have spent the past few days agonising about nursery rhymes and children's songs: an element that will feature in Requiem for Crossbones. When I create a new work, I feel it is important to lead with my gut instinct, which ...
Halfway to Heaven at Wintersound 2018
In January I am exhibiting at Wintersound at The Sidney Cooper Gallery - a collaboration between Free Range, The School of Music and Performing Arts and The Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts at Canterbury Christ Church University. I ...
British Composer Awards Nominations
I'm very pleased to announce that my works BIRDS and other Stories (2017) and Crossing Over (2016) have been nominated for British Composer Awards. The awards promote the art of composition, recognise the creative talent ...
Kent Artists Project by Robert Greshoff
August 2017 Earlier this month I was fortunate to take part in Robert Greshoff's long term portraiture project documenting artists living and working in Kent and titled the Kent Artists Project and a short time-lapse of the ...
TEDx: Emily! Don’t Do That! (2017)
'When it comes to presentations that are as poignant as they are hilarious, few fit the bill as well as Emily Peasgood's unique talk on self belief and beating the voices that hold us back from who we are' - Tedx Folkestone. Emily! ...
LIFTED at Southbank Centre in Royal Festival Hall lifts (2017)
On 1st July 2017 LIFTED will take place in two synchronised at the Southbank Centre in the Royal Festival Hall lifts, performed by the original LIFTED singers, Voicelab and Jackapella as part of the 2017 Chorus ...
Kent Creative Awards Winner: Composition
On 19th May 2017 Emily was awarded a Kent Creative Award for her music practice as a composer, sound artist and musical director. GALLERY [smartslider3 ...
Call for Singers
Crossing Over: Call For Singers By Emily Peasgood October 2016 Crossing Over is a new choral work I am currently researching and developing. Marking the anniversary of approximately 140 enslaved Africans on the slave ship Zong on 29 November ...
Occupying Alex Hartley’s Vigil and composing LIFTED, 14 storey’s up (2014)
By Emily Peasgood During Folkestone Triennial 2014, I occupied Alex Hartley's Vigil installation. Suspended 14 storey's up, on the exterior of the Grand Burstin Hotel, I sat on a series of climbers' portaledges and worked with my battery powered ...
Choral Arrangements
August 2014 Since leading my first community choir in 2006, I have arranged over 200 songs. I believe there is a shortage of contemporary repertoire which is 'suitable' for use in a community choir setting, where singers have a wide variety ...
Tate St Ives and Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens
16th August 2014 I recently returned from a visit to St Ives where I undertook research for a possible Sounds Like Art project in 2015. St Ives is a vibrant art colony on the North Penwith coast, in Cornwall, with a rich artistic ...
en Choir EP Launch
By Emily Peasgood On July 19th 2014, my gospel choir en Choir released their debut EP which features a selection of my arrangements of contemporary songs. I also commissioned documentary maker Anton French to make this video to document ...
A Conversation with Turner Contemporary [15th April 2014]
Emily was recently interviewed by conversation conservationist Moya Stirrup, at Turner ...
An Open Letter to Open Mic UK
April 30th 2014 Dear Open Mic UK, Thank you for your email. By legal definition you may be a legitimate ‘talent show’ but you really ought to be more honest. This is a huge money making scheme. Having read your terms and ...
Sounds Like Art (2014 – )
February 2014 Twelve years ago, when I was studying music in London and composing synth-based trance and electronica, I often thought about ways of combining the many forms of creative expression: dance, music, ...
en Choir
8th February 2014 After several years of arranging music for traditional community choirs I needed an outlet for my quirkier arrangements and compositions. In 2011 I formed en Choir with the aim of bringing together a diverse group of ...
Vocal Technique for Singers: Breathing and Breath Control 101
By Emily Peasgood. As I focus on selected vocal techniques during warm-up sessions with my gospel choir, en Choir, here are my top tips on breathing and breath control for singing: Posture The first step in ...
As She Moved Thro’ The Fair
On 17th March 2013 my arrangement of As She Moved Thro' The Fair was recorded by Ian Button at All Saints Church in Whitstable. Here is the unedited recording featuring: Christina Birkett (Soprano) Emily Peasgood (Alto) Peter Futcher ...
Brendan Power, Emily Peasgood & Paul Smith Trio
Throughout 2012 I worked on with harmonica player Brendan Power and guitarist Paul Smith. Recorded in my home studio, here is an example of one of the songs we worked on. Everything I Do Gohn' Be Funky, an old Allen Touissant tune, ...
Vocal Show Reel
1. Ode To Billie Joe (Blues) 2. Miracle (Jazz) 3. Everything's Gohn Be Funky (Funk) 4. Groove Is In The Heart (Disco) 5. Sex Machine ...
Ode To Billie Joe
In 2012 I recorded my favourite blues song, Ode To Billie Joe, in my home studio. Frances Knight features on ...
Scrounge on the Farm
May 9th, 2012 As festival season approaches, competitions offering local musicians the chance to perform are on the increase. It might seem harmless enough; a great way to gain exposure and all in all a whole lot of fun, right? But what we ...
Great Singer? Don’t Audition for a TV Talent Show
April 22nd 2012 Punters often approach me at gigs to lovingly suggest that I should audition for the X Factor. And although I understand that this is their way of saying you’re really good, I laugh it off to ...
The Olympics – Musicians Need To Be Paid Too
April 20th 2012 But musicians are always asked to play for free, aren’t they? Two weeks after I published the article Why Musicians Shouldn’t Work For Peanuts it came to light that organisers of the London ...
Why Musicians Shouldn’t Work For Peanuts
May 31st 2012 Music venues are paying less and expecting more from the ever-struggling musician. They want it all; brilliance, pa and lighting, posters, publicity, a ready crowd of family and friends to pack out their venue and what ...
The 24 Hour Musician: Rights, Respect and Exploitation
May 4th 2012 For fun, this afternoon I googled Why are musicians so expensive? And as expected, there were no relevant results. So I retyped: Why are plumbers so expensive? and clicked search. A barrage of ...
The Trouble With Teaching Music
February 10th 2012 "But, you’re singing a soul standard and you sound like a cheap cabaret singer. Who are you trying to emulate?" Last week. James’ first singing lesson. Spoken by me, the ever-frustrated music ...
Poetry Isle, Lemn Sissay (2012)
By Emily Peasgood In January 2012, Thanet Big Sing Community Choir worked with poet Lemn Sissay to set his poem for Margate, For Work For Love to music. Composer and former Musical Director Tony Castro set For Work For ...
Miracle by Frances Knight
Pianist and accordion player Frances Knight is a hugely understated composer and songwriter. I have performed with Frances for many years and during 2009-2010 recorded some of Frances' original songs. Here is one of my ...
Vintage Jazz Demo, 2005
I present some recordings of young a Emily, made when I started to become interested in jazz but hadn't yet understood how to sing jazz. However, it's important to embrace one's past, so here goes. [caption id="attachment_448" ...