"a beautiful recording" Radio National 
“an atmospheric, instrumental album...it’s gorgeous” UkeHunt 
Sounds from The Empty City is the original soundtrack to the live and animated theatre production of the same name. Composed and played on ukuleles by David Megarrity and recorded and mixed by Brett Collery, it encompasses everything from meditative electronica to joyful acoustica, and will appeal to lovers of Shugo Tokumaru and Penguin Café Orchestra.
 Read and see more here: wp.me/p2WRbv-14j

Sounds from the Empty City

Excerpts from theatre soundtrack: Scribble,  by Jonathon Oxlade and Trent Baumann
performed at the Out of The Box Festival, 2004,  Queensland Performing Arts Centre
all instruments David Megarrity

Scribble

from 'Two Roads' (2001) recorded at milliamp
all instruments Brett Collery and David Megarrity 
excerpts from the soundtrack to the SBS documentary 'Two Roads to Helidon' 
Dir: Anthony Mullins

Two Roads

Soundtrack Excerpts 
David Megarrity for performance adaptation of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis,  adapted by David Fenton & Brian Lucas
Image of Brian Lucas by Ray Pittman
https://lifeinthelongtail.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/deferred-resolution-de-profundis-soundtrack/

De Profundis: Soundtrack Excerpts

A collection of demos for a soundtrack for a theatre show about dogs in a pound. Read more here: https://lifeinthelongtail.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/notes-on-concrete-wire/

Unhounded

Written by Trashcan Sinatras,  covered by The Goodbye Notes, 2006.
Read more here: http://wp.me/p2WRbv-Ue
Barbara Fordham (Vocals)
David Megarrity (everything else)
with Sam Vincent (double bass) Brett Collery (drum loop)


Weightlifting (version)

Written by David Megarrity and Samuel Vincent in collaboration with the children of Muttaburra State School for the Queensland Music Festival 2011
Shooting Star (Muttaburra Song)
Lyrics David Megarrity, Music David Megarrity and Samuel Vincent
Lyrics developed  with students of Muttaburra State School  (Whole school, P-7)

V1 Wedgetail circles. 
He owns the sky.
Down in the broadwater
I swim to the other side

V2 A black hole in the hill
A cave that I know
A secret place
Come on, lets go

CH A shooting star, a grain of sand. 
This feels like home from where I stand X 2

V3 Cows and dirt,  
butterflies,  bees
the creek is full
of yellow-bellies

V4 dusty town  
With a river close by
they all belong here 
and so do I

Muttaburra State School 22 June 2011
   
Notes: A small school of a dozen children, across the entire age range from P-7.  They had clear ideas about the town and its surrounding landscape,  and the role of the people in the place, who balanced it ‘like yin and yang’. A number of them really got into the symbol and metaphor for the place, and there were ideas about the Muttaburra wind in their hair, and their overwhelming desire for a skate park (which they will get) were some of the ideas that couldn’t fit in this song. Younger children were interested in ‘country’ as a musical style. One older student requested ‘nothing remotely connected to country music’, in a deep and determined tone of voice. I tried to go with that.


Shooting Star (Muttaburra Song) [Vocal]

Sounds from The Empty City is the original soundtrack to the live and animated theatre production of the same name. Composed and played on ukuleles by David Megarrity and recorded and mixed by Brett Collery, it encompasses everything from meditative electronica to joyful acoustica, and will appeal to lovers of Shugo Tokumaru and Penguin Café Orchestra. Read and see more here: wp.me/p2WRbv-14j

Pavement

Shoelaces and Yo-Yo

The Busy City

Final notes: the ends of songs from Friends of The Iguana: Collected Recordings

Ends Of The Iguana

Final notes: the ends of songs from the Goodbye Notes album Tender Document

Ender Document

Sounds from The Empty City is the original soundtrack to the live and animated theatre production of the same name. Composed and played on ukuleles by David Megarrity and recorded and mixed by Brett Collery, it encompasses everything from meditative electronica to joyful acoustica, and will appeal to lovers of Shugo Tokumaru and Penguin Café Orchestra. Read and see more here: http://wp.me/p2WRbv-14j

Showing Pluck

Lost Property

Works in Progress by David Megarrity for The Human Company's performance adaptation of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis,  adapted by David Fenton 
Image of Brian Lucas by Ray Pittman

Chopin And Viola (shortened) V3

Prayer2

Bosie1 particular individuals

Cutting Bells2

Scrubs4

Soundtrack to spoken word piece created on the occasion of the closing of the Woodward Theatre, QUT Kelvin Grove, November 30,  2015
The image is by Ray Pittman,  from a work-in-progress showing of The Empty City in the Woodward Theatre, 2009.

Ode to a Closing Theatre

Home demo of Friends of the Iguana/The Goodbye Notes song  in preparation for Songs of the Leaving
https://www.metroarts.com.au/events/deathfest-songs-leaving/

One Extra (2016)

Demo for a potential soundtrack,  featuring Tom Oliver.
Read more here: https://lifeinthelongtail.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/notes-on-concrete-wire/

Concrete And Wire 3 (wTOM's Howl)

Demo for a potential soundtrack - recorded using ipad mic

2 DOGS (demo)

Intro V1

Moth & Night V1

Concrete And Wire2

(Megarrity/Vincent/Oliver) working drafts of a demo created for the submission process of the 2019 Australian Eurovision competition
read more here:

Change in the Weather

instrumental composed as part of a lyric writing process
read more here: https://lifeinthelongtail.wordpress.com/

Point (Instr) M1

home demos experimenting with the generation of 'sacrificial' music in order to shape lyrics.

read more here: https://lifeinthelongtail.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/songwriting-part-7-sacrificial-music-visual-lyrics/

Do Go On M1

String M1

Rain Shadow

Demo composition for a theatre soundtrack

World Opens Up

Haystack

Two Islands Meet

Waiting

Sunlight Leaves

Hoedown

from the Reasons to Stay album
Album tracks produced by Simon Monsour at L-Space 2006-9
Guitar/Vocals David Megarrity
Vocals Barbara Fordham
Bass/lap steel Neil Neilsen
Drums/Vocals Paul Morris
with
Piano Kellee GreenCover Image Martin Smith
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/reasons-to-stay/id322616543?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Handmedowns

Sunlit

End Credits

Red Sky Shooting Star

edited from LP record 'Sammy Sparrow's Christmas Party'
voice of Gary Callaghan 2UE

Sammy Sparrow (edit)

This piece documents the creative development of a new performance for children, Sox. Hearing the artists discuss their thoughts, captured slap bang in the middle of a creative process has something to tell us about the curious challenges, and collaborative creation of a performance in which music is allowed to lead.
Read the transcript here
Image from @coinop_london

Sox: Creative Development of composed theatre

Short instrumental excerpts from demos created during lockdown
https://lifeinthelongtail.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/songwriting-part-8-released-by-lockdown/
Upbeat/Magnificent/Nighty Night/Magic Hour/We'll All Get Together/To Lie Beside You/No Trouble/Rain Round Here*/Take Heart/Landlonging

*Rain Round Here is a mix of the Go-Betweens songs Quiet Heart,  Bye Bye Pride, Cattle and Cane and Streets of your Town

Lockdown Megamix 1

Rehearsal (from cassette) of Blondie's 'Picture This' Recorded in some house, somewhere in Red Hill, sometime in the late 90's.
Vocal Barbara Fordham
Guitar, singing David Megarrity
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4U1M2s3oXXWNsX02zWveOb?si=yGiBTBOUSf66saOiSdSTvw

Picture This (REHEARSAL)

Here you'll find sets of studio recordings,  soundtrack excerpts and demos from projects past and present.

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