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SPNM Video Interviews - "Highlights" posted

Mon 5th January 2009

Enjoy this clip of me throat singing to an amused cameraman! Also includes selections from interviews by fellow SPNM Composers! click here to watch the video

Transcriptions released

Tue 30th December 2008

A while ago I started work on a series of "transcriptions" of pieces by Lassus and Frescobaldi for piano duet so that I could play them with a friend. I have just recently finished the transcriptions and am publishing them as a book on Scotchsnap.

New Piece - Etude "Progressional" solo piano

Tue 30th December 2008

As a piece of fun I've written a piece for solo piano called Etude "Progressional". The piece is incredibly difficult and aimed at the Ian Pace school of performers. As a taster, here is the program note:

"This piece is insanely difficult. The idea behind it is based on Ligeti's notion of a non-systematic progression, in other words a process that represents a systematic transformation (getting more and more complicated etc.) but is actually quite vague in its parameters. To that end, being able to perform all the pitches notated is not essential for a good realisation of the piece, more that a sense of progression is achieved from start to finish. The piece is deliberately obtuse and can best be described as "mental" or "ridiculous" or perhaps "flamboyant" or just "insane". Good luck!"

"[...] simplest of all tongues" revisited

Mon 29th December 2008

I've re-written some of the material from my Piano and String Quartet piece "[...] simplest of all tongues" as a series of piano miniatures, and it should be available to download from scotchsnap soon.