First Arts@Artaud of the 2019/2020 school year a hit!

The Arts@Artaud events have been a staple to Arts and Humanities students for as long as we can all recall. Twice a term many get the chance to perform to their peers, some of us get the opportunity to be involved behind the scenes and most of us receive a free night of entertainment. These…

Level 2 Music Students release instrumental music video

Four of our second-year BA Music students have recently released a music video to their own arrangement of ‘Paradise’ by Coldplay. The project was a collaboration with Quinn Parry, a third-year Theatre student whom filmed and edited the video. The arrangement features the kanklÄ—s (Emilija Karaliute), piano (Karina Ana Ekhardt), bass guitar (Max Randall) and…

Arts@Artaud is back!

Our bi-termly, student-led showcase is back for the 2019/2020 university year! The Arts@Artaud team is made up of students studying music, film, theatre and creative writing; each term they organise two events to showcase the large variety of art that is constantly made at Brunel. The next show is Wednesday the 16th of October at…

Track of The Week – 29/03/19

Our third instalment of the Track of The Week series is a lovely track by second-year BA Music student Evita Kereviciute called ‘I Like It’. The track is number ten on our MusicBru playlist over on SoundCloud – to see the full playlist click here or scroll to the bottom of this blog post. ‘I…

Alter, Music Event at Brunel

Alter is an event led by second-year music students, the event showcases musicians of alternative styles whom have all pursued music in higher education. This event hopes to shed light on the matter of music in education and urge people to see the importance of music being taught through all stages of learning. We know…

Music Student Works on Installation in Amsterdam

This month one of the third-year music students had the exciting opportunity to travel to Amsterdam to carry out work on an installation that was presented as part of The Other Abilities Festival. The trip was part of an ongoing sensorial project between music lecturers Colin Riley and Carl Faia, they recruited the help from…

Track of The Week – 22.03.19

We’re back again with another track of the week! So many people expressed interest in this new series after listening to Louie Marlow’s track ‘Secrets’, so we are very happy to keep the ball rolling! This week’s track is slightly different as we weren’t able to get this particular song on our MusicBru playlist. The…

Student-Led Record Club hosts Guest Talk

Brunel Record Club was founded by third-year music students Wil Pritchard and Louie Marlow back in the academic year of 2016/2017 and it has since been a massive success. Each week they get together on a Thursday evening to discuss and listen to an album of the week and recently they have had guest speakers…

Track of The Week – 01/03/19

As well as assignments, projects, and events on and off campus, students are composing original music in their spare time. The MusicBru SoundCloud page is a platform in which people from the department can host their original works, you can visit the page here. As this blog goes up we have over 10 tracks on…

Applicant Day – 26/01/19

Our first Applicant Day of the term was a success! Current students attended to present some of their projects to prospective students and give a few talks too. The attendees got an inside look at some sonic arts projects as well as getting to check out some independent works of current students and Alumni –…