"Offrande" ("Offering") for piano solo, beautifully performed and recorded by the amazing Phil Best, to whom I give my profound thanks.

Score available for purchase at: http://www.swirlymusic.org/music/solo-piano/r-a-moulds-offrande-for-solo-piano/

Offrande (performed and recorded by Phil Best)(Op. 88, 2013)

Clown Face is the opening track the Fall in Green album, Apocalypse of Clowns. The album breaks away from simple piano and poetry into progressive multi-instrumentation for a ground breaking explosion of sawdust and glitter.

Meet the Tattooed Man in Skin, the Bearded Lady in Fairytale, and the joyous and energy filled Siamese Twin Domestic. Dead Hand is Fall in Green's own dark take on Wuthering Heights, so very different from Kate Bush's classic interpretation.

Apocalypse Of Clowns

Clown Face

Art By Machine is the title track of the debut album by Oldfield 1, an artificial intelligent music composer. Art By Machine, released in 2015, was one of the first albums composed and largely produced by A.I. to be commercially published.

Oldfield 1 is computer program developed by Mark Sheeky as an experimental addition to his proprietary synthesizer and sequencer software, Prometheus. The music Oldfield 1 has created here is largely indistinguishable from music created by a human.

For each track, a selection of instruments is provided to the program, with a selection of possible pitches and possible timings. The program applies these across each track independently; bass, drums, lead etc. choosing different options for the start of a pattern, the middle, and the end. As Oldfield 1 is a subsystem of a studio-quality synthesizer and sequencer, it has the power to create a high quality song in a single click with minimal need for external processing.

Musically, Oldfield 1 creates repeating melodic structures that fit into chord sequences that are known to fit together in a pleasing way. The music is akin to a geometrical abstract artwork, perhaps the audio embodiment of Piet Mondrian or Kandinsky.

Art By Machine

Yellow Balloon Attack is an A.I. composed track from the album Art By Machine by Oldfield 1. Art By Machine, released in 2015, was one of the first albums composed and largely produced by an artificial intelligence to be commercially published.

Oldfield 1 is computer program developed by Mark Sheeky as an experimental addition to his proprietary synthesizer and sequencer software, Prometheus. The music Oldfield 1 has created here is largely indistinguishable from music created by a human.

For each track, a selection of instruments is provided to the program, with a selection of possible pitches and possible timings. The program applies these across each track independently; bass, drums, lead etc. choosing different options for the start of a pattern, the middle, and the end. As Oldfield 1 is a subsystem of a studio-quality synthesizer and sequencer, it has the power to create a high quality song in a single click with minimal need for external processing.

Musically, Oldfield 1 creates repeating melodic structures that fit into chord sequences that are known to fit together in a pleasing way. The music is akin to a geometrical abstract artwork, perhaps the audio embodiment of Piet Mondrian or Kandinsky.

Yellow Balloon Attack

An energy-packed song from the album The Dusty Mirror.

The Dusty Mirror is an album of songs suffused with a surrealistic imagination. The album is approximately in three parts. The energy of the first two tracks breaks into a hint of something different with The Escape Angels, which, like The Fingers of Evil was written as a visual-stream of consciousness, a journey of image to image to image, with an instantaneous linkage between the image, emotion, and sound which relates these tracks to my instrumental albums. Despite being a collection of separate songs, the album is treated as a whole, a unity, not a collection of single tracks.

Fear of the Thing Itself, a track about the artist Richard Dadd, is related by murder to Norman Bates, and the four tracks of this section were written in 2011, 2011, 2014, and 2009 respectively.

The Dusty Mirror

Since You Kicked Me Out

A tongue-in-cheek jest at the world of social media.

Facebookland

Walking Tears from Testing the Delicates (2018). Testing the Delicates is an album of many moods, themed around attitudes to mental health and experiences of caring. This track is about experiences of mental institutions. Words by Deborah Edgeley. Music by Mark Sheeky.

Asylum stairs
graffiti
of my walking tears.

Rave into the nightmarish room at will
delusive light trembles 
talks about you
they hate you
behind 
padded walls.

Eyes throwing fear to the floor.

The house not right in the head
shines
under the clown moon.
A crayon smile.

My walking tears
the silent drift of petals
from the sick rose.

Un-remembered sunsets.
Un-touched mornings of bright chances.
Un-teared.

My walking tears
touch the earth
and it crumbles
into colour-psych dreams. 

Tongue le Manège Enchanté
Taste every shade of la démance. 

Oui!

Frappamad 
Nonexpresso 
Flat Corpse with a Beige Biscotti 
Sickamocha
Café au Tear

Mind trips to hostile planets
Spinner-top eyes and paper trees
Magic Roundabout flashbacks
Dougal's tongue

Zebedee.

Can all passengers make sure they have their belongings with them before embarking the ship?

Let me in! I've left my identity in the cabin.
 
My walking tears
crumble in rainbows.
I swirl my finger, 
dissolve, reappear, dissolve.

Testing the Delicates

Walking Tears

One Sided Duet from Testing the Delicates (2018). Testing the Delicates is an album of spoken word poetry accompanied by principally classical instruments about attitudes to mental health and caring. This track is one of the instrumental tracks on the album which act as breaks to set a mood. Composed and performed by Mark Sheeky. Words on the album and album concept by Deborah Edgeley.

One Sided Duet

ambient.mp3

Happy duet sung by the Shaw Sisters - Maggie and Rachael - about travelling in Europe and beyond.
Composed by Maggie Shaw and recorded at the Arena Studio, Crewe in 2019 as a Eurovision competition entry but barred from submission by the change of BBC rules in October 2019 preventing members of the public from sending in entries.

Let's Drive

Lets Drive - The Shaw Sisters

Part of a collection of compositions for string quartet (A Congeries). Dedicated to Andy Ingamells, who, like me, lives beside the River Lee.

The Voice of the Lee (June 2020)

I am an artist, surrealist oil painter, writer and recording artist based in Crewe in the United Kingdom. I have released over 30 albums since 1999. The music here consists of experiments, extracts, and unpublished fragments.

Since You Kicked Me Out

Mark Sheeky

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