This track is inspired by the artwork 'Infinity' by Lynne Blundell (http://www.lynneblundellart.com/images/fullscreen/01.jpg), an award winning artist from Lancashire. Fantastic colours and textures in the work.

I used a sound clip from NASA, "Chorus Radio Waves within Earth's Atmosphere by NASA is licensed under a  Creative Commons Licence". The clip has not been manipulated in any way.

Infinity

Experimentation with the Korg Volca Bass and a Watkat tape delay plugin in my Reaper DAW. Simple structured piece using 3 separate reaper tracks playing Korg Volca Bass notes (only using the E note. A little electric guitar with  delay during the early sections.

Watkat

Simply structured track using the Korg Volca bass and some effects within the DAW. Starts low so don't turn it up too much! One pass improvisation captured in the DAW.

Pulse

Wired is an exploration of visual art and an interpretation of the fantastic painting by Janet Hartley. An experimental piece using the Korg Vocal Bass as the only instrumentation. The piece is built using clips and effects in Ableton Live. 

Wired

Piece inspired by a fantastic painting by Janet Hartley. The sound track uses a combination of recorded news and shopping channel items plus vocal tracks and effects.

Scream

Found Sounds layered, slowed and delay effects applied. The underlying sounds can occasionally be heard, creating an eerie almost ghost like soundscape.

Sounds from walking around Lytham, Lancashire including cars, pedestrians, dogs and a fun fair are used in this soundscape.

Sounds Of The Underworld

A track inspired by the fantastic artwork from Janet Hartley. The work examines mental health and the difficulties with maintaining a relationship when mental health issues are at play.

The audio track uses 6 steady guitar loops, all in time and synchronised, sounding harmonious. Over time effects are added that interfere with that harmony eventually leading to the tracks going out of sync one by one and then leading to distorting at the end.

Bend Until It Breaks

Another track to accompany the paintings from Janet Hartley, they are such inspirational pieces of art. This is agin dealing with the subject of mental health and relationships at the struggle that combination can bring.

A simple looping track of building structures with effects weaving in and out of the main voices creating disturbance and erosion of the core sound work.

Erosion

We can all feel isolated at one time or another. For some this can be a debilitating condition that prevents them engaging with society and those around them. 

To fade into the background don't want to stand out
Don't want to be found out
Walls close in take my breath away
A sea of faces busy places
Isolation

Isolation

Sound miniature in response to the call for work from Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre (CEIArtE) in Argentina.
'Timing is Key' explores the theme 'Timescales' directly by exploring the interaction between common musical lines taken at different timescales to generate new interactions and sounds not previously apparent. It demonstrates how our frame of reference is key to understanding global climate issues and that the timescales selected to view these events directly impacts our results.
The composer has taken a simple blues scale progression and repeated this same pattern across a series of tracks at different timescales. This causes an interference and interaction between each track creating new sounds and audio events that draw the listener closer to the piece and encourages deep listening. 
By the end of the piece the final track (although exactly the same timescale as when first introduced) now sounds much slower and laboured due the way our hearing has been conditioned during the previous aspects of the piece.

This piece is released under Creative Commons licence.

Timing Is Key

Jules Bryant is a composer and sound artist who works with a wide range of instruments and sound sources. His work could be described as minimalist, using simple structures and effects to draw out and uncover interesting features within. The influence of extra-musical sources and the inclusion of found sounds are features of much of his work. His pieces make use of the quality of instrument sounds and as the composer he seeks to frame them appropriately for presentation to the audience. Jules Bryant is currently studying for an MA in Music Practice at the University of Central Lancashire.

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