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Someone in the upper echelons should probably check out Ahmed Khan, whose friend request message veers several miles into "spam bot" territory. I accepted purely to see was in their profile.
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I'm on the radio soon. Bonzer!
My piece Callisto is being played on the Californian classical music station Classical KUSC on Friday 3rd, around 8am PDT on Jennifer Miller Hammel's morning show (4pm GMT for UK people, and google will sort it out for anyone else). If there's enough
Read more…Some oboe recording on
I'll start posting the full movements on here eventually, but I've finished (in the protracted finalising of parts and scores now) a large symphonic suite of four tone poems written for the Galilean moons of Jupiter. In a fit of inventiveness I named
Read more…Triplets or sextuplets?
Hey everyone, a quick notation query if anyone has any suggestions... one of my pieces has a simple repeated triplet pattern here and there. I beam in 6s but my software groups as 2x triplets, which is technically correct but groups the notes a littl
Read more…MERRY CHRISTMAS now listen to my carol
I'm sure I've posted this here before, but - to maximally incentivise christmas cheer - here's my SATB setting of the medieval carol "I Sing Of A Maiden", recorded by ORA Singers. https://youtu.be/tuJU1XaWY8k?si=6kQGVT3HYuteuNbP
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Read more…Hiraeth (for string orchestra) - a tone poem for homesickness
Hey all, I thought I'd put this up and see if anyone likes it. It's long been finished, recorded and released, so if you *don't* like it then we'll all just have to live with it, but I hope you do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7irhRZyixk
Some of my
Read more…Mikhail Glinka's "The Lark" (arr. for piano by Mily Balakirev)
I'm sure you were all waiting to know what my favourite piece for piano is, and it's this, so you can all relax now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxlf-ZmE8JI
Read more…Work for pipe organ, feedback sought
Mockup with score video becuse I can't attach files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnzEUsb4EI (mockup uses an organ vst which is serviceable, but doesn't reflect the intended changing mood throughout the piece)
Apologies for two music uploads in a
Read more…Relics - a fauxbourdon for string quartet
A piece long since finished and recorded, but have at it if you don't like it and enjoy if you do. It broadly follows the strictures of fauxbourdon, a triadic form of medieval choral harmony where - very generally - the top and middle lines unison to
Read more…The most useful composer resource I've ever found
https://isfee.music.indiana.edu/
Barring experienced humans willing to put up with my stupid questions, this has helped me more than anything else. Almost all major instruments a composer is likely to be writing for, with video and audio detailing the
Read more…What's the weirdest, most abandoned music you USED to do?
It's not exactly weird, but I used to specialise heavily in retro chiptune-esque and electronica music for games. It's the one part of my skillset and musical approach that I've completely stopped working in - I still would if hired, but to be honest
Read more…Establishing ranges in choral works
Inspired by a brief chat I had with John Driscoll (but not linked to or aimed accusingly at his own recent post), here's something I do as standard: write the range at the start of choral works. I started merely because some other scores I studied di
Read more…"Forgetting" - for piano, sightread by Erica Sipes
I wrote a short, heavily bleak piece for piano at the end of 2021 and the wonderful pianist Erica Sipes included it in one of her live sightreading streams. I can't add .pdfs to show the score, but her performance raised some issues in my notation wh
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