This piece was composed for my late grandmother. I was asked to write a song and perform it at the funeral. Due to request from my grandfather I was asked if I could record the song and this is the first take

Joan Clayson

As part of the Music Technology composition module at university, the assignment was to create a piece that utilises Technology to create a composition. We had the choice of different Experimental practices like Electroacoustic, Soundscapes, Sound Installation, Musique Concréte or to create our own brief. The idea behind this composition was Interference noise. By creating a composition that uses unwanted noise e.g. Mobile Phone signal, Feedback, clicks and pop sounds that an engineer would try to eliminate. The composition was inspired by artists like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and Marko Ciciliani

Unwanted

For my final major project in college, the assignment required a recording of a band to produce an EP that contained a lead single, B-Side, Radio edit of the single and a remix. The band in question was a Hereford punk band formally known as Tastyhead (Now under the name Planecrashers) The song was the B-Side that was also remastered in university for the mastering module.

All rights belong to Planecrashers

Here is Tastyhead link to Myspace http://www.myspace.com/tastyhead

Also this is a link to Planecrashers new Facebook and Myspace account http://www.facebook.com/planecrasher
http://www.myspace.com/plane_crasher

Why Are We Alive by Tastyhead

During university, I was asked to help out Paul Forey to record his band the Sizzling Gypsies. I acted as main engineer and tried to create a natural sounding recording of the band by using old recording methods like the recorderman overhead technique as well as having limited microphones to capture the performance of the band within the recording space to provide a 70's-90's sound to reflect the bands style.

All rights belong to the Sizzling Gypsies

Here are some link to the bands official website
http://thesizzlinggypsies.co.uk/gypsies/

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/groups/50410002579/

Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/thesizzlinggypsies

Broken Boy Blues By Sizzling Gypsies

I had volunteered my services as a audio engineer and music provider for a documentary made by CARAD (Community Arts Rhayader and District) about the local agricultural shows in the Radnorshire area of Powys Wales. The DVD is available at the CARAD art gallery under the title 2017 A Summer of Celebrations.

I helped record the sound for the documentary as well as compose two music tracks for the editing.

The brief was to make a track light and calming. With a preference towards acoustic guitar music. For this song I decided to make a folk style chill out vibe to evoke the nature of the Elan Valley lakes and mountains. While have a repetitive chord structure with an underlining note to suggest a yearly gathering of the community in the shows.

The music piece was written on the acoustic guitar and the choir samples within Logic Pro and built the tune around the repeating chords.

The choir was exported from Logic while all the tracks were recorded on Pro Tools 12

Communal Gatherings

This is another piece of music I created for the documentary "2017 A Summer of Celebrations" for CARAD about the local agricultural shows of Radnorshire.

I was asked to create a faster pace tune with a feel good factor to it. I decided to keep it simple in composition by adopting the 12 bar blues structure. I did infuse a country vibe to the score to suggest the agricultural community of the area.

On a production note this is the first time I have ever recorded my 6 string banjo for a song, I though i'd use it for the solo for that country sound.
The drums and bass was created with Native Instruments Komplete as was the organ and piano chords and build the song around the structure.
One used an egg shaker and maracas for extra frequency pallet.
Used a 6 string and 12 string guitars plus two electric guitars, while all the amp settings came from NI's guitar rig

Synemosic