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About the piece…

October Sketches began as a series of piano miniatures, written during the month of October, which came about as a writing project. A fellow poet on Instagram was experiencing “writer’s block” and I too was having trouble writing due to a personal sadness. She challenged her fellow writers to join her in “Inktober”: to write something, whether good or bad, every day throughout the month. I decided to join her, to support her, and also help myself. For me, the block was musical, so I decided to write a piano miniature every day of the month. As the original concept was for poetry, I also decided to write a poem each day too. I love nature, so the inspiration came from directly around me. Being me, I also took photos and decided to do a piece of artwork each day throughout the month too I recorded  each piece straight after writing, and make all into a miniature video every day. All these can be found on Youtube, “October Sketches”.  It was such an uplifting, and inspiring writing project, (although somewhat demanding!) that I was truly sorry when I finished it…hence finding new joy in orchestrating it!

Subsequently, I orchestrated them. The result is a continuous piece of 31 miniatures, linked by the poetry read between each movement.