Tunde Jegede: getting the idea for Moving Away

When you’re writing music for someone else, it’s sometimes easy to feel constrained by their requirements

MUSICIANS WHO COMPOSE for a living often compose music at the request of individuals or organisations for particular occasions, purposes or people – known as composing under commission. Tunde accepted a commission to compose a piece of music for SoundJunction, which became Moving Away.

Obviously the commission itself didn’t give Tunde the idea behind the piece – he had to come up with that himself – but, as with most commissions for a particular purpose or occasion, he needed to make the piece work best in the environment and setting that it was intended for.

The quicker it's narrowed down, the quicker one starts to access the arena of where one's going

Tunde Jegede

Sometimes writing for a specific purpose like this can impose restrictions on a composer’s creativity, but in most cases, it presents a helpful guide and even a creative challenge or inspiration. In this clip, Tunde talks about how the earliest ideas for Moving Away came about.

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Where do ideas come from?

Choosing the performers

Tunde Jegede: getting the idea for Moving Away

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