Glen Lester
Glen Lester
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About Glen Lester
My name is Glen, and I am a Musician and aspiring Audio Professional. My musical aspirations started very early on with my interest in the electric guitar. I first got an electric guitar for my 8th Birthday, and I have been playing ever since. I taught myself guitar till I was 15, then I decided to have formal guitar lessons, which I did for 2 years. I decided when I was 20 to make music more than just a hobby, and took up enrollment with Access to Music to do an Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Music. This course gave me a further two years of guitar training, amongst other experience such as performing, composing, music notation skills, ear training skills, composing music for film, and learning about music technology. I also formed many bands with different musicians while I was there. Around this time my musical influences got deeper, and I had discovered Progressive Rock/Metal. Bands such as Dream Theater, The Flowerkings, Spock's Beard, Yes, Rush, Camel, ELP, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant & Frank Zappa. Those and so many more had such a profound impact on me as a musician. This music also helped me get into other Instruments other than the guitar, so I started to learn bass and keys and got myself a Yamaha bass guitar and a Nord Lead 2 synthesizer. It was also during this time that I started to form an Indie Rock band outside of Access to Music with a few friends, and that band became Eden. Eden came together from 4 very different individuals, that were all into different styles of music. It was an unlikely combination, but when we jammed together things just worked, and being like this we had a different sound from other bands in the 'Indie' genre. We managed to tour all over Essex and London over a year and a half. During the time in the band we got invited to do a music video for one of our songs for the Horror Channel on Sky TV, amongst also making a demo in a professional studio. Being in the band helped also further my musical tastes in different ways, and I had experienced how to work and write in a band environment. After the band split and I completed my Advanced Diploma at Access to Music, I then enrolled to do a BA (Hons) Degree in Music Production which I have just finished. I chose to do the Degree, as it was another area within music that had really interested me, and that I had already bought an £800 Boss 8 track digital recorder, and this opened up a new world of which I wanted to learn. During my Degree It has opened me up further to other musical styles such as; Minimalism, Electro-Acoustic Music, Music Concrete, Aleatoric Music, Serialism etc, and I have also done some compositions in these styles. I have also got to do various other practical projects, such as the odd art sound piece, a pop song, a classical notated score composition, music for film with foley design, and my first album. In the past year I have also been working as a Live Sound Engineer at Bar Lambs in Wescliff-On-Sea, Essex and have worked with many different bands and artists of different genres. If anyone wishes to collaborate with me and/or hire me for composition and audio mixing projects, please e-mail me at the following address: glester_@hotmail.co.uk
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