Hello. My name is George Marshall and I am the founder of Any Old Music.
I am a composer with over 10-years of experience, having completed work on 50+ projects for video-games, films and the concert hall.
In 2020, I completed my doctorate in Music Composition.
My PhD was on constraint and how it emerges in creative projects.
For example, team discussions in video-game projects.
If a video-game team presented a mood-board and certain briefs, these constrain and challenge the composer to compose in a particular way or style.
Less quantifiable than, say, the application of serialism, but probably just as (if not more) constraining and creatively directing.
It was during my PhD that I realised that there would only be two outcomes for me as a composer:
I became a professional composer who needed to compose lots of music in not enough time.
I became an amateur/hobbyist or semi-professional composer who needed to compose less music but still with not enough time.
With this in mind I eventually opted for something more along the lines of semi-professional, but with an ambition of setting up Any Old Music as a means of helping similarly time strapped music makers.
Particularly those in the second group, the hobbyists and semi-professionals, whose composing competes much more for time against other aspects of life.
Composition is incredibly rewarding.
You never stop learning and developing as a composer.
Furthermore, many of us boast renegade autodidactic personalities to a certain extent.
My hope is that Any Old Music’s self-paced composition courses can help composers to continue growing, by learning through creating and doing so in their own time.