• Serial Miniature for piano 2 – revision

    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

    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 …

  • When I was a boy

    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 …

  • Bob’s Garden

    Bob was our cat. That’s him in the picture. I like this song. A 3/4 rhythm which confuses some people, especially in the acoustic version, until the drums come in fully. I remember writing this a long time ago; maybe 1991 or so(?). I have never managed to get the arrangement that I want, and, …