A mobile phone recording of a handsaw in use on a South East London street provides the source for manipulation of frequencies and sounds producing harmony, colour and contrast in a rough-at-the-edges but fascinating experiment in spectral composition.

Handsaw by Neil March

Notated Strings and Keyboards mix with pre-recorded urban sounds that have been turned into compositional sound sources. Provisional mix of track destined to be on forthcoming album "Urban Art Music".

Submerge (unmastered) composed by Neil March

A twelve minute sampler of short excerpts from tracks on the album "Urban Art Music" by Neil March, released in September 2014. The sounds you hear are a combination of recorded sounds from everyday urban life which have been converted into instruments of harmony and colour, notated synthesized music and urban sounds used as effects. Look out for more information about the album on our Facebook page.

Urban Art Music Samples

Shorter radio edit of track from the album "Urban Art Music". Combination of notated synthesized music with real recorded urban sounds (saws, sirens, drills, machinery etc.) converted into instruments of harmony and colour plus other recorded urban sounds (shopping centres, railway stations etc.) used as sound effects.

Metrospectra II (Radio Edit) by Neil March

Neil March's latest composition is dominated by real recordings of everyday urban noise which he has converted either into instruments of melody and harmony or into sound effects running alongside notated Piano, Bass Guitar and Synthesizers. This track is unreleased and a remastered version is scheduled for release on an album by Demerara Records later in 2015. Copyright of the Hornetmuziq Press.

Metrospectra III by Neil March (from 'This is Tomorrow Calling' compilaiton)

Final track on Neil March's 2014 album 'Urban Art Music'. Notated instrumental parts meld together with pre-recorded urban noise edited digitally and turned into instruments of melody and harmony to create extraordinary textures and contrasts. Each section melts into the next so that it is impossible to hear where one ends and another begins.

Submerge by Neil March (from 'Urban Art Music')

Highly original work for solo Cello performed live in the Great Hall @ Goldsmiths University by Alexandra Eichenberger for whom it was originally composed.

Cello Anti-Cello (Solo Cello piece composed by Neil March, performed by Alex Eichenberger)

Solo piano piece performed by Marilyn Wyers who has played "Diversions" at a number of venues around the world. Marilyn, whose groundbreaking research into the relationship between sound and movement, especially bodily movement, has drawn an army of admirers, has worked collaboratively with Neil on a series of presentations about how her work and his research into the role of movement in reflecting events and behaviours in post-globalization society cross over. "Diversions" has been a centrepiece of those presentations which have included Cambridge University, Guildhall College, Senate House, Goldsmiths University, University of Middlesex and the British School iln Athens.

Diversions (solo piano piece composed by Neil March, performed by Marilyn Wyers)

Talented Composer/Pianist Helena Gascoyne gives the maiden performance of Neil March's "Perspectives" at the Great Hall, Goldsmiths University, 1 March 2013

Perspectives (Composed by Neil March performed by Helena Gascoyne)

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