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Well, quite a reasonable amount has changed since my last post! I am no longer living in Glasgow, I have moved to Surrey - south of London - where I will hopefully be continuing my education this year. Continue

It has been 3 months since my last post, so thought I'd finally get round to updating it... Continue

Grains of Sand on an Imaginary Beach



I have been recently contemplating an interesting theory that has been presented to me, resulting in a chain of after-thoughts leading to this thesis. I will firstly explain this theory, then continue through the series of after-thoughts which lead to my final observation.



During a recent debate, it was suggested that as space is thought to be infinite, there may theoretically be an infinite number of planets. With an infinite number of… Continue

Well, it has been a few months since my last update, so there have been a lot of changes during this time!

The projects on the previous post have been postponed, due to shorter deadlines on other items. Inplace of these, I have been working on a series of works for small ensemble, and a string quartet; both of which are being written for concert.



The ensemble piece is being performed by the Rednote Ensemble in Edinburgh, and consists of Square 'Cello, Toy Piano, Sleigh Bells,… Continue

I officially started back at RSAMD yesterday, and had a composers' meeting at 2pm to discuss projects for this year. It looks like this is going to be a very busy (but exciting) year; I've been assigned 4 new projects on top of the 2 I already had.

I recently completed my sequenza for solo oboe, but still have the piano quintet and piece for solo viola to finish.

I have finished designing the structure of the piano quintet, and have completed 3 of the 5 sections, which I am very happy… Continue