I have gone back to Part 2 of Mr Jones. This is based, as I mentioned in an earlier post, on the Love knows not watch. I am trying to create some kind of fusion here between electronic sound processing and minimalist music. You will be able to tell me whether or not it is successful! The …
Part one is based on the ‘The Accurate’ watch, whose hands contain the words “Remember you will die” What a wonderful idea to have this phrase in your vision every hour of the waking day as you wander along on your life’s path, straying constantly from your purpose and wishing you had the tenacity to wander …
I wrote this song in 2009 after reading some J G Ballard stories. They fascinated me. After reading Kingdom Come, I decided to write something that would try to capture some of the essence of the story. Materialism. Tribalism. Fascism. As the Observer review says: The book is mired in ambivalence and the only things …
Phil Hunt is a composer, song-writer, musician and producer who does it because he can’t not. He has a proper job as well. He has been writing music since his teenage years, and remembers keenly one of the first rock songs he wrote “I rock therefore I am”. Thank goodness that will never see the …
When I started thinking about writing again, I decided I needed to update my knowledge. Technology and the world has moved on slightly since I last studied electro-acoustic music in 1989! I did some research (by which I mean I used google) and got a kindle copy of the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, edited …
A few months ago I wrote a dance track called NRG. It came from setting a groove on the PC and then picking up my bass and playing a 2-bar ultra-simple pattern. This forms the basis of the entire track. Not proud! The mix is a bit bass heavy too. Anyone want to master it …
Several weeks ago, while walking along the South Bank in London, I came across a wonderful, independent thing. In the Oxo building there are shops and galleries. It’s all very arty and interesting. There are ceramics shops, artists’ collectives, gift shops, curiosity shops… and a watch shop. Mr Jones Watches, in fact. The designs were …
When I was growing up, music was everything. Well, that is music and Ipswich Town FC. Girlfriends took over at some point but music was always there. Music school on Saturday mornings from maybe 8-18. Brass band, dance band on Tuesdays and Thurdays, County Youth Jazz orchestra. And by my mid-teens I’d started writing music. …