composed in 2015

commissioned by London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta Pioneers and 
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

premiere by London Sinfonietta, conducted by Garry Walker
St John's Smith Square, London
10 October 2015

Chamber Symphony No.2 'The Australian'

I wrote this for my lovely amazing friend Paul and then handed the midi file over to my other lovely amazing friend Cedric Fangeat and gave him free reign to create a sound work from it!

You can see the score here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPZuYPXWHaM

For Paul Beaudoin

As it grows increasingly apparent that humanity lacks the wherewithal to unify over the existential threat of climate change, my response has been to write music intended to evoke, in the hearts and minds of those who hear it, a comprehension that it is humanity's obligation to act as caretakers, rather than destroyers, of the life that surrounds us. This album includes three orchestral works from my Music for the Earth series.

GAIA’S LAMENT. In the background, music for violin and orchestra was playing for quite a while, but I didn’t quite muster the courage to embark on writing it down until recently. At the time I began to think seriously about writing a concerto for violin, the United Nations was in session and what, if anything, would come out of the climate change discussions was the hot topic of the day. The young activist Greta Thunberg had sailed to the U.S. on a solar powered sailing vessel and having been invited to speak before the assembled members, gave all of the adults in the room the thrashing they well deserved. With all of this going on, somehow a scene from the 1960 film of H.G. Wells “The Time Machine” kept coming to mind – a brief scene where he travels to the far, far distant future to arrive to find a dying earth, a huge red sun suspended on the horizon, and a desolate landscape nearly devoid of life.

It was with this somber vision that I set about writing music, filled with sorrow at what our species is doing to our only home, with little hope that we have the awareness, rationality or willingness to act as we must.

GAIA’S SONG.  A companion work to Gaia’s Lament, this bucolic music was nearing completion when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021. While reading the findings of the report was, unsurprisingly, deeply distressing, my vision for the earth which helped inform the writing of the music is the opposite. A vision for humanity that is built on hope rather than the reality of human nature, one where humans come to recognize our responsibilities as caretakers rather than destroyers of the earth and the living creatures with whom we share the planet. This is gentle music, intended to inspire a gentler approach to living.

Whatever anger or despair I feel at the realization that our species will prove, in all likelihood, incapable of taking the necessary actions to stave off environmental catastrophe in the coming decades, I laid those feelings aside when writing this song. Let Gaia sing, not a song of lament, but a song of peace and hope.

SEASON OF RAIN. A symphony in four movements, composed during a mostly rainy season. The music is also a rather somber reflection on the state of the world, as it becomes devastatingly apparent that climate change is a certainty and, at the same time, the rise of populist politics around the world makes it equally certain that humanity will not respond to the alarms.


Gaia's Lament (Andante)

I Drank The Radiance

"... and is revealed in Its naked truth to those alone who pass right through the opposition of fair and foul, and pass beyond the topmost altitudes of the holy ascent and leave behind them all divine enlightenment and voices and heavenly utterances and plunge into the Darkness where truly dwells, as saith the Scripture, that One Which is beyond all things."

Mater Dolorosa III

“Stroll-N-Keys”  by Luke

As promised here’s the sequel to “180 Bars of Solitude”
my favourite sequel, it’s very detailed with lots of depth…
I will reply to all the comments after I return from my family emergency… 

Keys & Piano & Synthesizer & Guitar & Drums  by Luke
Created & Composed & Produced by Luke
Music & Track & Album Photos by Luke
Photography by Luke
I use Open A.i for Album art pictures 

                           Beats by Luke©️
                         S c h ü ß m a n n©️

“Stroll -N- Keys”  by Luke

This alternative rock–pop ballad is a heartfelt plea to hold on to love before it slips away. The lyrics balance urgency and tenderness, asking a partner not to walk out—“Stay awhile, don’t turn away tonight, don’t let the shadows steal our light.” The imagery of building a world together contrasts with the pain of watching it crumble as the other drifts away like sand.

The refrain “Stay awhile, just hold me like you used to do” captures the longing for closeness, while the hopeful line “If there’s a chance, let love pull us through” gives the song its emotional core. Musically, the song suggests soaring pop melodies layered with the grit of alternative rock guitars, blending vulnerability with anthemic intensity.

At its heart, “Stay Awhile” is about love on the edge of breaking, clinging to one last moment of connection in hopes that it might be enough to heal what’s been lost.

Stay Awhile

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A Holiday project that is likely to be torpedoed - unless I can find a solution.
My working title is "A Caretaker's Christmas"
You see where I am going with this?

Chestnut Roasting on an Open Fire \

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