DAVID SAVILL

I am endlessly fascinated by creative processes. Every year, I teach a module called Creative Practice, where the underlying subject is...

Pay attention. It's a mantra in the creative writing classes I teach. There are rules for my musical improvisations that mean I must...

I feel like I can hear the production and playing finally improving with this piece. The overall sound captures better what I intended...

Something I'm discovering by making music is how much my relationship with any art depends upon improvisation. I have a terrible memory....

After the frenzied whirlwind of making a piece of new music every week, I took a break and spent a bit more time trying to understand...

This was the last of my weekly lockdown pieces. I went from not making music, to buying a guitar, discovering Garageband and then Logic,...

I'm not mad keen on singing, but sometimes I read something that feels like it needs to be sung. This short poem by Auden reminded me of...

This piece was inspired by my love of Skateboarding

The burning world turns.

I think my longing for a good night out got into this somewhere.

Politics got into this piece. We long for a leader with the eloquence of Obama. This track features extracts from his 2016 speech...

An imaginary soundtrack for my Russian thriller.

Since March 2020, I've been composing a new piece of music every week. This has been a creative challenge, and a way to share music with...

1. The Businessman and The Spy When in 1996 members of Boris Yeltsin’s inner-circle invited Vladimir Putin to be part of the ailing...

What does Europe mean to you? I was introduced to the history of Europe while careering through the continent on the backseat of an...

They were living in a student dorm. One family per room. Lives packed up into shopping bags. They cooked on Bunsen-burners looted from...

Two men squatted on the dock, in the shadow of a London policeman. I do not know if they had just arrived in one of the rust red shipping...