This was originally created as a part of my UA2 assignment for composing/FMK, we had to create 5 contrasting short musical ideas, for this I decided to try my hand at creating a piece of orchestral music

The End (Project 1)

This is another short idea that was created as a part of my composing/FMK UA2 assignment, I decided that I wanted to try and create at least one dance/edm track for my portfolio to contrast with my classical composition from earlier, I made heavy use of waveform synths and multiple sets of layered drum patterns in this piece

Pumped (Project 2)

One of several compositions created for my music technology programme.

For this piece we were required to work in a section that encorporated an irregular time signature (I chose 7/4) and another section demonstrating poly-rhythmic writing, overall I feel that this piece, as a short idea, is well written in terms of meeting the brief we were given but I think I could stand to improve a lot

Caprizant

This was my end of year composition assignment for my music technology course.

For the assignment we were required to write a piece that made use of advanced diatonic harmony, demonstrated suitable contrast and repetition and made use of synthesizers, I feel that this was a large step forward for me compositionally at the time although when I listen back to it I can hear that I still have a long way to go

Waltz in G Major

One of three pieces writen for my studio composition module.

For this piece I tried to step out of my comfort zone by using only C chords (C minor, C sus2 and Csus4) for most of the piece, meaning that I would have to generate motion and interest using melodic lines and percussion.

The piece also made use of sampling (I recorded a lot of strange things for this portfolio) and hardware synthesizers to give it a layer of added depth.

Stasis

Another piece composed for my studio composition assignment.

I feel that this is the most representative of my previous work in terms of structure, form, sound palette and production values, although I don't think it's the strongest piece I wrote for my portfolio.

This piece was heavily inspired by the dance and pop music of the 90's and 2000's along with the melodic contours and movements of music from the NES and SNES era of video games.

Dearest

Another piece from my studio composition portfolio.

I feel that this piece is the most unusual for me in terms of the movement, structure and production, I was trying to create something that had a sense of development and contrast as it moved, to this end I made use of an ABA structure and functional harmony to help create the contrast I wanted, overall I'm very pleased with it

Digitized Ambience

This is a piece that I created as part of my Advanced Studio Composition module, for this assignement I wanted to further explore the sound world that I'd stumbled upon in the previous module, I wanted to expand more and more into this almost Eno-esque way of creating music by manipulating timbre and texture instead of focusing purely on chords or melody

Chrome Forest

This piece was created as a part of my Advanced Studio Composition module and was intended to be a further exploration of the soundscape created and initially outlined in the previous module, this time around I decided that I wanted to escape a traditional structure and that I wanted to focus more on automation and texture to drive the pieces

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