Today’s #MusicalMinute prompted some rather profound thinking!  What if every thing is made out of no thing?  If all is energy, and 99.9% of that energy cannot be perceived, what is reality?  Is it the fractal boundary of interference between multiple states of being?  How does music, with its interaction of frequencies, fit in to this sort of scenario?  What do you think?

05 Jun 25 Cyclic Waves

They say: “What goes down must come up”.  Actually, no, they don’t!  Creating these #MusicalMinutes forces me to confront all sorts of ideas that would normally go left unthought.  At the moment, the mood seems to be sinking in most of the tracks.  What do I need to do to reverse things without breaking my own self-imposed rules?

06 Jun 25 Calm Decsent

If asked to describe how I wrote today’s #MusicalMinute, I would liken it to creating a sculpture.  The sustained chord is the block of stone from which everything else originates.  The brass instruments highlight different aspects of the chord, and the tubular bell marks the passage of time.  Meanwhile, the low instruments represent the creator.  What do you think?

07 Jun 25 Guided Focus

Is human creativity in the process of being sacrificed at the altar of progress?  For me, creating something new each day has become a wonderful habit.  Admittedly, some days sound very similar, but then, how different are you today from how you were yesterday?  And that’s the point.  What do you think?

08 Jun 25 Embryonic Plan

In order to be able to ‘block out some time’, we need to be able to find some of it!  It is said that time is our most precious gift, without it no thing would exist.  Today’s #MusicalMinute introduces waypoints in time, which themselves are influenced by regular waves operating at different frequencies — the raw materials of music!  What do you think?

09 Jun 25 Chronos' Block

Regular listeners will have realised that this month is sounding very different from its predecessors.  Excitingly, it feels like I am on the verge of a plan.  However, ideas are easy to have (for some), implementing them requires discipline, determination and resilience.  There are always doubts, but these are balanced by adventure and challenge.  What do you think?

10 Jun 25 Thought Incubator

One of the things that I love about creating these #MusicalMinutes is that they encourage, if not require, a can do spirit.  The commitment has been made to create 10,000 daily tracks, and somehow I am going to get there.  At a time when immediate gratification seems to be in vogue, it feels like a strange place to be.  Isn’t that the lot of a creative?  What do you think?

11 Jun 15 Mysterious Ways

Life is made up of many experiences, lived in the past, present, and future.  Back in the 80s, I remember playing in an orchestral session conducted by Vangelis.  This might give you a clue as to why today’s #MusicalMinute  has its title, but where does Pareto come into it?  Isn’t it interesting to see how memory and imagination play together?

12 Jun 25 Pareto's Chariot

Today’s #MusicalMinute continues the development of an idea.  As you can imagine, my Mindmap for 2026 is starting to get quite complex.  However, Clausewitz’s quote on no plan surviving initial contact with the enemy is also nagging at the back of my mind.  My current view is to not let ‘what ifs?’ interfere with the grand vision.  What do you think?

13 Jun 25 Musical Cyborg

We are certainly living in ‘interesting times’.  But how is an artist to respond?  There seems to be a great danger in responding, emotionally, to what is being ‘reported’ on the news.  However, what if the music represents the zeitgeist of the moment?  The art becomes a record of one perception out of billions.  What do you think?

14 Jun 25 Interesting Stage

I started composing daily pieces and posting them onto SoundCloud at the beginning of 2013.  By posting daily I am tweaking, experimenting and developing a thought, idea or event in time.  I am endeavouring to show that there is no limit to that creative spark that lies within each of us.  So much of what we do nowadays is about instant return, I am about evolution not revolution (although each month starts with a clean slate).  Join me on my journey to 10,000 (18 May 2040!!!)

Over the years I have found the Soundcloud community to be extremely supportive and encouraging.  It’s great to have a Global Mastermind of musical adventurers.

Thank you!

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