Durham Original Music & Associates Podcast (DOMAP)

Since submitting her Michaelmas Song Writing Competition entry ‘Return Home’, Taliya Hafiz (Music; St Mary’s College; 2020-2021) has gone from strength-to-strength within the DOMAN community! Alongside studying a Masters at Durham University Music Department, the Mary’s student has also allotted composing for the European Association of Tatar Woman (“Tatar Hanim”) and competing with Durham University Dancesport into her busy schedule! Though only just being able to start attending Durham University

Here she is: your Epiphany Song Writing Competition Winner, Kat Pittalis! She impressed the judges with her simplistic, yet effective, timbral building in her winning song “Easier”. The passion that she conveyed through her lyricism and drive created not only an extreme contrast to her Domix submission “Mind Games”, but impressed the judges enough to beat off an extremely strong field! On the whole Kat has taken the music scene at Durham by force this year, even with all the stresses of third-year

As a composer for Durham-based film company Keylight Studios, and co-founder of Unredacted Production, Samuel Read (Music; St Cuthbert’s Society; 2017-2020) took every opportunity available to him by the scruff of the neck! We managed to catch an interview with Read this month on the week he began his studies at the National Film and Television School: marking his transition away from undergraduate life, to that of a postgraduate.In this episode of the DOMAP, Alumni Relations Officer George Bone

NYPA are a post-punk, krautrock group formed last academic year. After months of improvisational sessions, Samuel Osman, Andrews Anderson, Dylan Wright, Mussa Ahmad, Tom Hutchinson and Xavier Crean recently recorded and released their debut EP “Mzungu Kizungu” at Rocking Horse Studios in Durham. Underpinned by repetitive, machine-like funk grooves, the band explores an eclectic range of political, social, and emotional themes. In this episode of the DOMAP, Alumni Relations Officer George Bone and

Happy holidays from all of us at DOMAN! This year has been a challenging one, for not only the society (having to shift a lot of our work online) but - undoubtedly - for the rest of the university community and indeed the world. So what better way to try and bring some festive cheer than via Zoom socialising and arguing over musical opinions! In this term-ending episode of the DOMAP, exec members George Bone, Taylor Morse, James Hughes, Lizzie Lloyd and Ishaan Shukla discuss their most unpopular of

Here they are: your Michaelmas Song Writing Competition Winners, Escher! Not only did they impress the public with their recognisable melody and crisp production, but Sam White and Ed Osborne (1st Year’s; South and Van Mildert) stunned our judges with their lyricism and passion. In this episode of the DOMAP, Alumni Relations Officer George Bone and President Taylor Morse sat down with the two of them to discuss not only their winning song, but their influences and their very close

Ozgur Kiziltas (2nd Year; Collingwood), while only recently delving into live performances of his eclectic soundscape, has shone recently through both virtual performances, and airtime from BBC Introducing in the North East. Through the infusion of classical and contemporary influences, Oz’s ethereal compositions aim to exploit a very prevalent gap in the Durham music marketspace. In this episode of the DOMAP, Alumni Relations Officer George Bone and President Taylor Morse talk about: the influences

Our first podcast episode is up! In this month's episode, our Alumni Relations Officer George Bone interviews Fly Trap Honey, an indie-rock band made up of two Durham students, Alex Comaish and Etienne Currah, and Harry Henderson from Newcastle University. Tune in to hear the band discuss their spectacular rise on the North East circuit, their new single "Stolen Days", fans in Luxembourg, and how they have kept their momentum going during