We Move - Session 8: Catherine Anne Davies - LIBRARIES GAVE US POWER: Finding Inspiration In Culture hero

Creative Coding

We Move - Session 8: Catherine Anne Davies - LIBRARIES GAVE US POWER: Finding Inspiration In Culture

Producer and songwriter Catherine Anne Davies (aka The Anchoress) led a session on finding the stimulus for creativity in the culture around us.

Level

Beginner

Duration

Self-paced

Format

Recorded meetup

Added

22/03/2022

Course overview

Producer and songwriter Catherine Anne Davies (aka The Anchoress) led a session on finding the stimulus for creativity in the culture around us.

Drawing from her career as a successful multi-instrumentalist, producer, and co-writer, she walked through ways in which cultural stimulus can be used for songwriting and informing creative identity. The session included techniques to stimulate new ideas and writing practices that don't rely on internal inspiration, as well as some signature production techniques from her album The Art of Losing.

Course content

Instructors

Catherine Anne Davies

Catherine Anne Davies

Instructor

Catherine Anne Davies has appeared as The Anchoress with acts such as Manic Street Preachers, Simple Minds, and The Dark Flowers among many others. Whilst her 2016 debut album Confessions of a Romance Novelist won awards and attracted critical acclaim, The Art of Losing successfully transformed wall-to-wall critical plaudits into a Top 40 position in the UK album charts, as well as the #1 spot on iTunes. It was also named album of the week by The Sunday Times, The Line of Best Fit, Mail on Sunday, and The Telegraph, and found fans everywhere from Waitrose Magazine to the Financial Times, to a spot on Made in Chelsea, as well as a coveted place in The Sunday Times Albums of 2021 & The Guardian’s Albums of the Month.

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