Be Happy

Performance, Not Entity

Unresolvable

Ordinary Lies

Necessary Inventions

The Blind Didn't See

So Many Layers

Stranded Distance

Perilous Knowledge

Alien Landscape

Calumny

Facts Over Doubts

A Tyranny Of Genes

Execrated

Protect Us From Evil

Ends

When I was about nine or ten years old, Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) held an open day. Because I was a rather academic child, and because my next door neighbour was a Lecturer, I got to make a visit. I recall seeing my first computer there. The program was loaded via punch cards, and the young man who was putting on the demonstration then turned a dial so we could, as he said, hear the computer think. It did indeed make warbling electronic noises.
Eventually I became a University Professor myself, and that meant working with computers a great deal later on. But that was the first one I encountered. And now I am retired and make music using them. It seems very circular.
This piece of music contains a Canon in the middle section, and in the final section the Canon nestles as middle lines between a Soprano and bassline. Can you follow all four lines of music as you listen?

Lanchester

Precinct

Farewell Absent Subways

Synthetic Fibres

When I was a boy, I netted a Stickleback out of the River Sowe. I took him back home and kept him in an old goldfish bowl (previous occupant a Hearsall Common Fair goldfish) in the family house. We couldn't get him to eat fish food, but my Dad discovered he liked Bovril (it's true!). The Stickleback built a nest in the middle of the bowl, and sat in the middle of the nest with his head and lovely red throat showing, waiting for Mrs Stickleback to come along. Of course, he was in a goldfish bowl, so his chances were not good. This is his song.

Stickleback

Pool

Music where millennial sound design meets classical harmony, producing moments of sheer beauty encased in hard shells of structured progressions both melodic and harmonic. Electronic music using classical forms with an element of music concrete. Music with orderly planned development, structured, with a destination. Music that demands and rewards attention, that continues to deliver new and fresh insights with repeated listening. Music that requires you to surrender and give yourself up to it for a period, that provides more than a single mood moment or transitory feeling. Perhaps more like a compendium. A book series. A world of its own in multifarious detail, with meaning and which touches deeply.


In my other life I am a British University Professor who has authored a couple of books and more than 100 published papers, and my research is applied all around the world. In this life I am a composer-producer of electro-acoustic music. I eat, drink, and breathe music, study music, analyse music, play music, and create music. Share in my experience of the world by listening here. If you like what you experience, like my tracks, comment on them, and follow my work here or on Youtube or Facebook.

Contact: MidTriangleMusic@btinternet.com

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