A piano score which depicts men leaving their homes and going to war in WW1. 

Birds Piano Only

Working on a new piece, this is the first try, will develop it further!

Waterfall (Developing)

Here is my final piece! Really would love feedback-much appreciated!! :D

The Willow

I had to write a piece of music depicting World War One. The lyrics are based around a written account by a war veteran who went to war in 1914.

War At Sea - Uke & Vocals

This piece is all about World War One. It is all about men leaving home and going to war. It is set as if the women are calling for their men to come home. The song is called 'Birds' this is a metaphor for the men who are leaving their homes. 

Birds (With Voice) Demo

All Good Things

This is a piece of work from my 2nd year Music Composition and Technology Degree. A tad different to what I normally do!

Running Red

Another piece of coursework that I composed. 
Apologies for the terrible Logic violins! Hope to get this recorded properly sometime! (Anyone willing throw me a message!)

Saturation diving is a dangerous and challenging job.
The divers live and work under pressure for 28 days with usually 11 other people.
It can be very claustrophobic and tiring being in the same environment each day.
You have 11 other personalities in the chamber with you and you
have to deal with the stresses and tension that can come with that.
I have tried to mimic this environment in my piece. I have started off with very little going on and have used lengthened notes to act as the days merging into one.
In the middle the piece picks up and becomes more interesting to signify that tension is high between workers.
Eventually, this does settle down and the notes start to become lengthened again. This represents the divers beginning their long journey back to surface pressure.

Saturation

An electroacoustic composition using recordings of a saxophonist.

Saxophony - An Electroacousitc Piece

A piano track composed for an iPad advert

IPad Advert (Second Year Coursework)

A Sonic Art Composition composed for coursework, combining recordings of popcorn and tap dancing feet.

Popcorn Toes (Coursework)

Rhapsody in Colour is a composition concerning the lives of people who were born lacking the power to hear. It was created using certain shapes of a sequence of notes from Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. Music on paper is just shapes and patterns and you cannot hear the sound until it is played.

I wanted to think about never being able to hear what the patterns actually sound like, so I took this idea and thought exclusively about the shapes the notes created and not the sound the sequence produced. I then created a new score using these shapes. 

I wanted to relate Rhapsody in Colour to a poem I discovered, written by Joanna Shtrosberg, titled Born into Silence. I have used this wonderful poem as the basis of the whole composition. It is written not by an individual who themselves is deaf but by the parents of a child who was born deaf.

Each section of Rhapsody in Colour portrays a different part of the poem in chronological order. The poem itself tells a story about how the realisation of having a child with deafness can come as a shock but if you look past the complications there is hope and a fantastic world ahead filled with a mass of other senses and experiences if you just accept that these things can happen.

Born into Silence

First the shock
The realisation
Not what we expected
Not what we dreamed
A cruel reality

Our child born into silence
Our world changed forever
Fear of the future
Fear of the unknown

The clock ticks
Options present themselves
Hope springs

A world of sound
Even though the sound is different
It is there
And all the more beautiful

Sound teaches hearing
And speech
And the realisation that all is not lost
Hope has turned into reality
Expectations exceeded

Still a world of silence
But only sometimes
Still a struggle
But there is success
Still a shock
But, at last, acceptance.

People experience music in many different and stimulating ways, especially those who cannot experience it the same way others do. I wanted to make this piece not just about the music but the images that surround music and the vibrations that are produced. Being born into deafness does not mean that there are not any possible ways of experiencing music. 

Music is not just heard, it can be felt, seen and even smelt and tasted too! You just have to open up your senses and look beyond the sound exclusively. Music can be perceived using many different forms; for this piece, I have concentrated on using images and colours to represent the music by painting certain images and shapes on paper that I feel represent the different sections of the composition. I used particular colours in which I believe convey the individual emotions the music communicates in relation to the poem. 

I wanted the pictures to represent the journey of the parents in the poem. The colours at the start are darker and more clouded, this mirrors the dusky chords the notes create in Rhapsody in Colour and it also reflects certain words the poem emphasises. As the story goes on the pictures get brighter and more colourful, this is to symbolise the fact that being born deaf or having any other type of disability can be a wonderful thing if you embrace it.

Nowadays, the word disability has so many negative connotations. I want you, as the audience, to realise that this is not true and that having a disability can be a magical experience if everyone understands what that person is going through. You can make it easier for them!

I would like you, therefore, not to concentrate solely on the music itself but on the images and the vibrations that surround you.  Concentrate on watching the performers play their instruments (piece written for live musicians) and think about what they are doing with their hands. Who is playing when? Where are they looking? How are they breathing? I want you to think about what a world without sound would be like and how amazing it can be if you just open up your senses and concentrate on something other than what you hear.

Rhapsody In Colour (Explanation in description)

Coursework composed in a programme called Reason. Our brief was as follows; 

Your final Reason rack should contain one, and no more than one, of each of the following eight sound modules: Subtractor, Thor, Malstrom, OctoRex, Redrum, Kong, NN19, NNXT. You may use as many sequencer tracks, and utility modules such as mixers, spiders and matrices, as you wish. You may use one Combinator module, which should host any and all effects modules you wish to use. This restriction will require you to experiment with routing functions in order to add effects onto your piece. Note also that the effects sections within modules such as Malstrom, Kong and Thor, are allowed, and creative use of these, without limitation, is encouraged. You may make unlimited use of the main mixer, patching and automation.

Restrict your soundset to the built in sound libraries, and use sound synthesis and manipulation techniques to edit sounds as necessary, or to build them from scratch. It is entirely possible to deliver an arrangement and audio mix that has a sense of depth and perspective, despite the limitations stated, with clever use of the sound modules, and you should attempt to do so.

Reason (Coursework)

A composition composed for a piece of coursework that asked us to write for a Fiat advert.

Fiat Advert (Coursework)

In every day life, people are oblivious to everything apart from themselves. Concentrating on only going forward, not stopping to take a second to think about what could be going on in other peoples minds. Approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year. There is a social stigma that follows mental health disorders where people in society fail to realise that having a disorder can impact somebody’s life, they may look normal on the outside but there could be something happening on the inside that is tearing them apart.



Deaf Ignorance is an interpretive fusion piece based on two peoples perspectives; a schizophrenic and a passer by. By putting the listener in both positions simultaneously, it creates a sense of alienation, revealing the delicate mind of a schizophrenic and what they are potentially hearing day by day as well as detailing the ‘deaf ignorance’ of the society they live in.

When listening to this piece, close your eyes and just listen to the sounds, open up your mind: 

The drones at the start of the piece personify the passer by; the constant chords pulsating around your head embodies the unconscious ignorance that people possess in everyday life.

It has been documented that people with schizophrenia hear voices, a type of auditory hallucination. These voices can vary from person to person. Sometimes only one voice will be heard, but for others, there could be numerous voices heard at the same time. These can be clear to hear or appear as mumbling in the background. The voices in this piece are a personal interpretation of what an individual with schizophrenia hears. 

There is a constant sine wave that underlines the piece. This is to signify a nuisance, that something strange is happening. It is an uncomfortable sound and can evoke visceral emotions. 

Nearer the end of the piece the voices stop and all you hear are the drones carrying on, but they are not the pleasant chords as heard before, but a single, deeper tone as well as a sharp and piercing noise. This is to signify the minds; the schizophrenic and the passer by, coming together to become one, now that the listener is aware of what is going on around them.



By talking to people and researching any mental disorder, with a little patience, the stigma that surrounds them will slowly fade as people become more aware of what is going on around them.

Deaf Ignorance (Explanation in description)

Capgras delusion is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical impostor.

This piece is an experimental piece composed for coursework, using metric modulation and other strange techniques. This piece is meant to make the listener feel awkward and out of place from the use of unexpected melodies.

Capgras Delusion (Coursework)

This piece was written on Ableton for a piece of coursework.

Ambience (Coursework)

Composition composed by Dan Forder and myself for a Dance Project during final year of University.

Perfect Human (colab with Dan Forder)

Fille Sauterelle is a songwriter/composer and pianist from little old Brettenham, Suffolk.

Fille Sauretelle delves into the world of diary entries and weaves fragments of peoples’ experiences into her lyrics. By writing in a different perspective she adopts a character and performs as if she were in their shoes.

She glances into the minds of people living with disabilities; the hardship of arduous lives and inconspicuous real life affairs. World War I has also been a big influence in her music.

Her spare time consists of rock climbing, scuba diving and keeping active.

She graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Music Composition and Technology BSc from the University of Hertfordshire in 2018. 

A Sauterelle was a bomb throwing crossbow used by French and British forces on the Western Front during World War 1. It was designed to throw a hand grenade in a high trajectory into enemy trenches. The word 'Sauterelle' is french for Grasshopper. The name is a juxtaposition of images, mimicking the feel of her earlier compositions that were 'happy songs' about World War 1.

Fille Sauterelle

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