All my soundtrack pieces. I love combining electronic music with orchestral elements. Older tracks used Ableton Suite's orchestral instruments, more recent ones use a combination of Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra and Spitfire Abbey Road One.

Epiconymous Showreel

[PRE-RELEASE] Official release on Spotify 21st Feb 2022

You can almost imagine the Nebula as gods, and as the birthplace of stars they certainly qualify as that.

Orchestral electronic crossover / soundtrack style piece with a spacey feel to it. 

Also on youtube https://youtu.be/c9FnM4p1w5U

Pillars Of Creation

Orchestral / Soundtrack / Crossover piece. 

Also on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek5rm1deDZI

Assembled with
BBC Symphony Orchestra, 
Loom, 
Spitfire Abbey Road One 
and Spitfire Labs.

Foundation

Written in 2007 after finding out that my wife and I were expecting a baby after having lost our first to a silent miscarriage. Difficult times shown hope by new life.

Coming back to this track in 2020 it feels rather poignant for the times we're all living through, but there is always hope, no matter how bad things seem.

The rainbow picture also rather fitting for the time, I chose the rainbow because out first unborn child was going to be called Envis, which is Welsh for rainbow, because I was looking out of our house at a big rainbow when we found out that my wife was expecting.

Image is by Steve Snodgrass (http://ow.ly/H6XPw)

Hope - Short

We abandoned them and left them to die, we built up their hope and then crushed it, But hope for tomorrow was something they always had.

The protests began on 15 March 2011, when protesters marched in the capital of Damascus, demanding democratic reforms and the release of political prisoners. Security forces retaliated by opening fire on the protesters, and according to witnesses who spoke to the BBC, the government forces detained six. The protest was triggered by the arrest of a boy and his friends by the government for writing in graffiti, "The people want the fall of the government", in the city of Daraa. - Wikipedia

The unrest that followed those protests quickly became the Syrian Civil War. The rebels found favour and support from the West but also from forces loyal to ISIS. They held on to hope of a victory over the brutal dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad for 5 long years, they hoped beyond all hopes that their supporters in the west would continue to back them up. Even under fire from Government forces supported by Russia they still held on to hope that we would come to their rescue.

But in their hour of need we abandoned them and left them to die, we built up their hope and then crushed it, They were used as scapegoats for our own government's failings and they became a focus for the hatred that characterised the campaign for the UK to leave the EU and for Trump's presidential campaign.

The way in which the UK, America and our allies have treated the people of Syria will forever be our shame.

But this piece of music is not about that shame, nor is it about the war, the death, the destruction, or the betrayal, it is about the unending hope that the rebels of Syria held onto through struggle on struggle. Whether you agreed with them, or our support of them. Whether you questioned their choice of allies or even their motives for their uprising. Whether you agree with their religious beliefs or not. None of this is important. These are all people,

The rebels of Syria have shown us how hope can give people a strength that they knew not possible, a strength that is in all of us. 

Now the burden of that dreadful hope falls upon the millions of people who have fled their homes since the war began, many of whom are living in refugee camps still cut off by Government forces.

I for one wish there was something I could do, some way I could halt the tide of hatred that is engulfing the western world before Tomorrow's hope is all that we have left to cling to.

Tomorrow's Hope

My children asked if I could write something that would sound good on a Transformers soundtrack. This is what I came up with. It's meant to sound menacing but epic, and I wanted to give some impression of machinery/robots.

The Hill

Theme from Tomorrows Hope, which I wrote about 2 years ago, with added guitar from a Seaboard Rise.

Aleppo - Theme from Tomorrows Hope

The Moon. Powerful. Beautiful. Omnipresent. Essential. This is my tribute to probably one of the most wonderful and amazing things that can be seen by every single person on the planet, every day, for free.

Relaxing music inspired by the might and power of the moon

Photo by John Pabst Jr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pabstphoto/859374844)

The Moon

This was a deliberate attempt at putting together something powerful and epic, but uncluttered. This one started as a simple piece at the piano and I've layered it up with electronic sounds as well as numerous orchestral layers using solo and individual elements from BBC Symphony Orchestra and big powerful layers from Spitfire Audio's Abbey Road library. The whole thing is plonked in a Swedish Nuclear bunker. The "electric guitar" sound at the end is a slightly modified Cirius Rez from Ableton's Wavetable synth.

Proctor

Piano / keyboard player based in North Wales.  I like to write music that's beautiful and has lots of movement. I draw from a whole range of genres but mostly electronic and orchestral.

I love listening to Danny Bryd, Shostakovich and Mike Oldfield, so a real mixture!

Feel free to get in touch for collaborations or reposting requests.