Back to Bach Ask most Pop & Rock musicians about Classical music and they tend to pull faces (about the same faces that the Classical types pull when the question is the other way around). Adjust that Q and swap Classical for Bach and most – well the older ones anyway – will say, yeah…
Unmade Movies: music that represents movies that don’t exist is me flexing my melodic & descriptive muscles again. Each piece attempts to describe the sort of score (soundtrack) I might write for this sort of movie. Not managing to get any commissions to make real movie soundtracks lately I have to do the next best thing…
“Space Case” is the name both of the album and a collection of Instruments & Effects in the VST format designed to behave as the core components in a Space music studio. More on that bit later, music first. The “Case” tracks were all composed 100% with the instruments & effects units of the Space Case…
Run From The Sun is a journey through our Solar System. You may note that this is branded as a Destructor Creator Destructor (DCD) record instead of fully under my name. Run From The Sun is a different record from my usual and as such has been both a challenge and a joy to write. This…
Cover Painting: detail from Le Soir ou Morphée by Charles Le Brun in Galerie d’Apollon, Musée du Louvre The theme for In Phantasus Cum Morpheus is that of a person in a hospital bed weighed down with morphine* so they are below consciousness but dreaming. I leave it open to the listener to decide the who, where, when, why, etc.…
I haven’t done a marketing article for a while and today I had the perfect thing show in my Inbox that wraps up what I’ve been thinking for a while. This is Dumb: eBay sent me an email with the Subject “We thought of you when we discovered these goodies…” This actually worked as it made…
This is the last week of pre-release for “Plugged-In Bach”. This time it is the first of the Two-Part Inventions. Bach was a teacher as well as a composer. This was common then for musicians, as it has become again. Most Indi musicians make more as teachers than they do as musicians. I learned harpsichord…
Week Three of the release of my “Plugged-In Bach” is the deep ‘n’ dark one of the bunch. Cleverly hidden in the middle so no one notices how broody & melancholy it is. This one was written for the church. Back when the church service was a big thing. I guess really this fills a…
This article will cover a few things but the concept of criticism will be common. It is me working out how & why on some things. As such it may be of no interest to you. Or it may be of great interest as either thinking material or to understand my brain a wee bit…
Week Two of my lead up to release of my “Plugged-In Bach” tribute to Wendy Carlos and her “Switched-On Bach” sees me attack a Brandenburg Concerto. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048. I actually did the bulk of this work several years ago as a semi-tongue in cheek demo of sounds from…
It was 50 years ago today (well almost) Wendy Carlos released what was to be for ages the best selling Classical record of all time called “Switched-On Bach”. For a while, it was even outselling The Beatles! The Moog Modular was in its infancy. Wendy was pals with Bob Moog and they traded ideas to…
This article is really a holder for a series of videos on simplified musical theory as I compose a piece of music. What I set out to do in this series is to compose a piece of music whilst taking time to explain what I am doing and why. This won’t be a set of 5…
