Moors Songs Demo

The new demo is a soundtrack to the ghost of a ghost story. I wrote the bare bones of the plot, and started working on an "audio encapsulation" of the atmosphere i was trying to invoke. The basic plot is that a middle aged couple move into a somewhat ramshackle …

End of disco album notes

The End of Disco ep is a collection of warped disco tunes - they toy with preconceptions of the genre and go way beyond the harmonic and rhythmic spectrum usually associated with it. The track "You're Dancing" for example is based on a 5 beat isorhythmic pattern …

Composition 3

Continuing on the subject on structure, it is worth noting some "formal" structures. These are a mixture of old classical forms that evolved over a long time and newer, more constructed forms that were created to help give shape to longer pieces of music.
Sonata form …

Composition 2

To follow on from the last composition post, I'm going to talk some more about devices to stimulate your musical thinking.
As mentioned before there is what i call a "conversion" chart - you draw something striking and visual, and create music with that image guiding …

Composition 1

I'm slowing writing a short book on composition. The subject is so vast and varied that it is best broken up into smaller chunks. I would mainly like to concentrate on an area that may be of interest to people reading here. Composition techniques for those who write …

More exploration

My efforts to learn more about music have been continuing recently with my attempts to understand "The Aesthetics of Music" - a rather interesting book by Roger Scrutton. The general idea is to explain why music affects us in the way it does, or rather - analyse how we …

The Bits and bobs album

I've uploaded a ragtag selection of tunes that I've done over the year - and there is plenty more to come. Of special note is "All the Other Stars in the Sky" which is ancient but I love it. I recorded it in my very early days of computer mayhem and it shows in the …

Orion - label news

Good news! Shaun at the tremendous netlabel Earthmonkey has offered to release my hot-off-the-press album "Orion".

It was a project that had been in my mind for a long time...a meditation on nature, life, time and space. The idea had originally come during the winter …

End of Disco Ep

As of last weekend the End of Disco ep is complete - finally ready to go. The music, anyway. There will be a bit of a delay before there is anything else to report.
This has been an interesting project for me. I had been away from "beat" music for about a year, mainly …