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Category Archives: New album release
RPM2016 : Berlin 7679
Since 2012 Ive been participating in The RPMChallenge, which is in informal challenge to make an albums worth of material in the days of February. The minimum limit is 10 songs or 35 minutes of music- I like these sorts … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, analogue synths, Berlin, berlin School, electronic, new album, RPMchallenge, synthesizers
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TGV
This album is the conclusion of the previous blogs about improvising with the SQ-1 (at least in part). There are some new tracks which extend the practice as a drum machine was added (easy to use the samples in Ableton … Continue reading
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Tagged analogue synths, art music, arturia beatstep, berlin School, improvisation, Korg MS20, korg SQ-1, Minimalism, sequencers, TGV
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New album: Horologium
Horologium was produced as part of this years RPMchallenge and as part of that challenge was written between 1-22nd February 2014. The title refers to the study of clocks and time Horology coming from the latin horologium which in turn is the translation for … Continue reading
Sid Smith String Quartet VII
The writer Sid Smith had photographed a huge number of images of rain hitting his “yellow room” window. He arranged these into movements of 4 related images then invited composers to write for them, opening up to any instrumentation. I … Continue reading
New album: Resonances
Resonances is a collection of pieces in which content is completely taken from recorded input, no generative synthesis has been used. My primary tools were Abletons Sampler and Max for Live. The first Study Zither I, dates from 2010, and … Continue reading
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New Album: Thin white layers
Early this year I was delighted to be approached by Norah Lorway to contribute a release to her netlabel Xylem Records, specialising in Ambient and Algorithmic music. I was just about finishing RPM2013 and was also planning a major studio … Continue reading
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RPM challenge 2012- result now in- album released
On the 1st February I started the RPMchallenge, having seen that some of my colleagues were having ago. Briefly the idea is to record an album length of material in the days of February. I saw this as a unique opportunity to … Continue reading
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Tagged ambient, cockos, derelict places, electroacoustic, electronic, february, field recordings, guitars, modern classical, modern compostion, piano, pure ambient, railway stations, reaper, rpm challenge, synthesizers, three counties railway station, train recordings, train sounds, trains
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