This is a song from 2008 (I think) with a real (and deliberate) early 80’s feel. Lots of basic synth sounds, drum machine and even a bass solo. There is a fair bit of guitar too – some nice powerchords under the chorus and some more delicate figures too in the instrumental. Also single line …
I wrote this song after going to an Incognito gig in Canary Wharf with my friend Rakhi. Let’s start by saying I really don’t like this recording. It’s muddy and the timing is all over the place. That having been said, if you can see past the inadequacies of the recording itself, I like the …
After last week’s lesson I have made some slight revisions to the first serial miniature for piano. Pat pointed out some things about the registers that I had used and about some of the intervals being bare and ugly , so I have tried to remedy that. But, only slight revisions 🙂 Here’s the new …
I can’t decide. I’m not particularly happy with the tremolando and 3-part counterpoint sections. I have revised them slightly. I have used the twelve-tone matrix from the tone row and transposed the D# and F# tremolando, through P0-P6. I have also used the I0 row to articulate the tremolando at the end of the tremolando …
Serial Miniature for Piano 2 If any pianist wanted to play this piece, you will find a pdf of the music at the bottom. Let me know if you do 🙂 After writing the Serial Miniature for Piano 1 I wanted to write a series of them. After the lesson where I presented the first …
This song is about ten years’ old. I was very happy with it when I wrote it and recorded it. It’s a contemplative piece, dealing with feelings of failure and lost direction in adult life. I wrote it when I was working at an amazing place, the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington (where two tonne …