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Laid-back Sun is part of a series called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces, unsure middle bits and interesting snippets - those tunes or combinations of sound that never made it into something deemed complete or useful. Perhaps this may encourage me to finish them, or identify interesting bits that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work. Composer crumbs are so easy to forget, neglect and waste that revisiting and polishing these musicbits is enjoyable and insightful.

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Laid-back Sun

Dance Under Neon is part of a series called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces, unsure middle bits and interesting snippets - those tunes or combinations of sound that never made it into something deemed complete or useful. Perhaps this may encourage me to finish them, or identify interesting bits that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work. Composer crumbs are so easy to forget, neglect and waste that revisiting and polishing these musicbits is enjoyable and insightful.

Dance Under Neon

Falabon is part of a series called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces, unsure middle bits and interesting snippets - those tunes or combinations of sound that never made it into something deemed complete or useful. Perhaps this may encourage me to finish them, or identify interesting bits that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work. Composer crumbs are so easy to forget, neglect and waste that revisiting and polishing these musicbits is enjoyable and insightful.

Falabon

sandcastle is part of a series called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces, unsure middle bits and interesting snippets - those tunes or combinations of sound that never made it into something deemed complete or useful. Perhaps this may encourage me to finish them, or identify interesting bits that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work. Composer crumbs are so easy to forget, neglect and waste that revisiting and polishing these musicbits is enjoyable and insightful.

sandcastle

Cosmic Wander is part of a series called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces, unsure middle bits and interesting snippets - those tunes or combinations of sound that never made it into something deemed complete or useful. Perhaps this may encourage me to finish them, or identify interesting bits that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work. Composer crumbs are so easy to forget, neglect and waste that revisiting and polishing these musicbits is enjoyable and insightful.

Cosmic Wander

A Long Way To Go is part of a series called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces, unsure middle bits and interesting snippets - those tunes or combinations of sound that never made it into something deemed complete or useful. Perhaps this may encourage me to finish them, or identify interesting bits that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work. Composer crumbs are so easy to forget, neglect and waste that revisiting and polishing these musicbits is enjoyable and insightful.

A Long Way To Go

cosy fuzz is part of a series called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces, unsure middle bits and interesting snippets - those tunes or combinations of sound that never made it into something deemed complete or useful. Perhaps this may encourage me to finish them, or identify interesting bits that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work. Composer crumbs are so easy to forget, neglect and waste that revisiting and polishing these musicbits is enjoyable and insightful.

cosy fuzz

Dream Louder is a vivid trip across the waves of sleep.

musicbits is an outlet for new music that wouldn't otherwise be performed or listened to. It is focused on uncovering, exploring, developing and sharing composer crumbs - pieces forgotten on hard drives and notepads, ideas and material untouched or unpurposed, and snippets that never made it into something deemed complete.

Made with sample libraries, real instruments and field recordings; musicbits are ambient soundtracks, chill vaporfunk, progressive folk tunes, jazzy synth-pop beats and everything in between.

Dream Louder

Hike is a track strolling, clambering and striding upwards.

musicbits is an outlet for new music that wouldn't otherwise be performed or listened to. It is focused on uncovering, exploring, developing and sharing composer crumbs - pieces forgotten on hard drives and notepads, ideas and material untouched or unpurposed, and snippets that never made it into something deemed complete.

Made with sample libraries, real instruments and field recordings; musicbits are ambient soundtracks, chill vaporfunk, progressive folk tunes, jazzy synth-pop beats and everything in between.

Hike

Glow is part of a project called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces - composer crumbs left behind to better suited ideas or forgotten to new sounds. Hopefully this will encourage myself and others to revisit and perhaps finish/polish them or identify elements that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work, providing insight into our creative process.

Glow

Depart is part of a project called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces - composer crumbs left behind to better suited ideas or forgotten to new sounds. Hopefully this will encourage myself and others to revisit and perhaps finish/polish them or identify elements that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work, providing insight into our creative process.

Depart

Patches is part of a project called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces - composer crumbs left behind to better suited ideas or forgotten to new sounds. Hopefully this will encourage myself and others to revisit and perhaps finish/polish them or identify elements that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work, providing insight into our creative process.

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Patches

some chords is part of a project called musicbits with the purpose of sharing, discussing and listening to unpurposed pieces - composer crumbs left behind to better suited ideas or forgotten to new sounds. Hopefully this will encourage myself and others to revisit and perhaps finish/polish them or identify elements that could be adapted or brought forward in current/future work, providing insight into our creative process.

some chords

Lightly Scattered is a jazzy future-funk infused, dreamy synth-pop space under a vocoder canopy.

musicbits is an outlet for new music that wouldn't otherwise be performed or listened to. It is focused on uncovering, exploring, developing and sharing composer crumbs - pieces forgotten on hard drives and notepads, ideas and material untouched or unpurposed, and snippets that never made it into something deemed complete.

Made with sample libraries, real instruments and field recordings; musicbits are ambient soundtracks, chill vaporfunk, progressive folk tunes, jazzy synth-pop beats and everything in between.

Lightly Scattered

Floating is a light and fluid electronic track, shimmering as it drifts away. 

musicbits is an outlet for new music that wouldn't otherwise be performed or listened to. It is focused on uncovering, exploring, developing and sharing composer crumbs - pieces forgotten on hard drives and notepads, ideas and material untouched or unpurposed, and snippets that never made it into something deemed complete.

Made with sample libraries, real instruments and field recordings; musicbits are ambient soundtracks, chill vaporfunk, progressive folk tunes, jazzy synth-pop beats and everything in between.

Floating

Flick is a short, excitable snippet.

musicbits is an outlet for new music that wouldn't otherwise be performed or listened to. It is focused on uncovering, exploring, developing and sharing composer crumbs - pieces forgotten on hard drives and notepads, ideas and material untouched or unpurposed, and snippets that never made it into something deemed complete.

Made with sample libraries, real instruments and field recordings; musicbits are ambient soundtracks, chill vaporfunk, progressive folk tunes, jazzy synth-pop beats and everything in between.

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Suitcase is a scurrying track, sinking into grooves as it rummages around.

musicbits is an outlet for new music that wouldn't otherwise be performed or listened to. It is focused on uncovering, exploring, developing and sharing composer crumbs - pieces forgotten on hard drives and notepads, ideas and material untouched or unpurposed, and snippets that never made it into something deemed complete.

Made with sample libraries, real instruments and field recordings; musicbits are ambient soundtracks, chill vaporfunk, progressive folk tunes, jazzy synth-pop beats and everything in between.

Suitcase

Set Build is like constructing Lego on carpet. With material reimagined from the introduction and ending of 'a quiet life' by Aran Browning.

musicbits is an outlet for new music that wouldn't otherwise be performed or listened to. It is focused on uncovering, exploring, developing and sharing composer crumbs - pieces forgotten on hard drives and notepads, ideas and material untouched or unpurposed, and snippets that never made it into something deemed complete.

Made with sample libraries, real instruments and field recordings; musicbits are ambient soundtracks, chill vaporfunk, progressive folk tunes, jazzy synth-pop beats and everything in between.

Set Build

Tiles comes fitted with the judders and squeaks of suitcase wheels outside Berlin Schönefeld Airport. 

musicbits is an outlet for new music that wouldn't otherwise be performed or listened to. It is focused on uncovering, exploring, developing and sharing composer crumbs - pieces forgotten on hard drives and notepads, ideas and material untouched or unpurposed, and snippets that never made it into something deemed complete.

Made with sample libraries, real instruments and field recordings; musicbits are ambient soundtracks, chill vaporfunk, progressive folk tunes, jazzy synth-pop beats and everything in between.

Tiles

Aran Browning [b. 1994] is a composer based in Glasgow, UK. He is influenced by personal experiences, everyday life and pop culture. He strives to create more relatable, accessible and inclusive work, often in collaboration with others.

In 2016 he graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Professor Rory Boyle and Dr Gordon McPherson. He has worked with a variety of groups and artists including Ensemble Modern, Mieko Kanno, Elmvale Primary School, Red Note Ensemble, the ECME, Toronto-based visual artist Tong Lam, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, London-based director Jack Lynch, NonZeroSum and through Leeds Lieder, poet Ian Harker. He was involved in the project Inclusive Creativity in Orkney and Derry and his work ‘Gameshow Format’, a collaboration with Drake Music Scotland incorporating different technologies alongside acoustic instruments into a combined ensemble, lead to him being awarded the Kimie Composition Prize, through Live Music Now, to create a new work for inclusive environments. The resulting piece, ‘Cardboard Creations’, was premiered as part of the St Magnus Festival in 2016 and is regularly performed by Sirocco Winds. Selected as the ‘Adopt a Composer’ Scottish pairing through Making Music, Creative Scotland and Sound and Music, he collaborated with the Strathendrick Singers to create a new work, ‘a quiet life’, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January 2018.

Recently; Robot, for learner pianists, was shortlisted by Colchester New Music for their Piano Project 2018 and Genuine Trope, commissioned by trumpeter Mark James, was performed at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in May.

His series ‘musicbits’ aims to share, discuss and listen to unfinished pieces, short introductions, unsure middle bits and interesting snippets – those sound combinations or tunes that never made it into something deemed complete or useful. Composer crumbs are so easy to forget, neglect and waste that revisiting and polishing these musicbits is enjoyable and insightful.

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