To celebrate world piano day here's a piece I wrote about my experience suffering from an illness called M.E. 

I Lost Myself

SILENT PURSUIT / nordic noir

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A deep feeling of wanting to escape.
Running to get out of the chaotic isolation of the city.
It encapsulates all who enter.




Photography - Ben Brooks - http://www.benbrooks.biz/about.html
Vocals - Ben Brooks

Your Not Lost

Vicissitude - a change in circumstance or fortune; the journey through this tunnel to the natural light that seeps through and offers hope. 

Originally composed in surround sound for a uni project I decided to do a stereo mix of a slightly different version of this piece. 

Violin, Viola and Cello - Louise Paine

Photography - Ben Brooks

Cameron Brooks - Vicissitude

Rainy Piano Piece

The first in a series of piano improvisations. Was a bit rusty to start with.  I'm uploading one recording every week and will be playing on different pianos to highlight and explore there different characters.

Photography- Ben Brooks

Piano Improvisations No.1

The second in my piano improvisations series. I was feeling a bit uninspired and out of ideas so was about to head home. But I decided to do one more improv take and came up with this chromatic idea which was kinda interesting.

Piano Improvisations No.2

For the 3rd piano improv I was kindly allowed to record in a church hall in Falmouth. I loved the rhythmic, typewriter like sound of the hammers; especially once I felted the piano.

The piano and space really guided this improv and each note that came out. The hall had an amazing reverb coming off the tiled floors so I created a convolution reverb of the space and faded it in and out to emphasise this.

Piano Improvisations No.3

For the 4th improv in this series I ventured (by bicycle and train) to Perran-ar-Worthal church - in a very hidden away part of Cornwall. The piano had definitely seen better days- the sustain pedal and a lot of keys kept getting stuck down... But it had a lot of character!

I definitely had a lack of ideas when I was improvising so here's a short section from the one improv take I recorded - hopefully I'll have a bit more creativity for the next one :)

Piano Improvisations No.4

This is my 5th piano improvisation and it was recorded at Emmanuel Church in Falmouth. 

I set up; still not fully awake on a Monday morning... and this was the first and only recording I did. Its turned out to be my favourite improv in the series so far. 

I decided to keep the door to the room open as it felt wrong and very insular to shut out the atmosphere happening outside. Instead I tried to play off these sounds and let myself become immersed in the space and let it shape the music I played.

Piano Improvisations No.5

Cameron Brooks is a composer and musician from Gloucestershire, England. 

contact: cam@cameronbrooks.co.uk

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