Voice: Thomas Bush
Piano: Saeed Meerkhan

The song is a setting of two poems by Philip Larkin. Taken from his 1955 collection The Less Deceived, both are reflections on the nature of evening – the twilight hours where day slowly blends into night. Written with a strong sense of the English pastoral tradition, the tonality of the music shifts through various modal areas originally conceived for the harp, and thus defined by the septaphonic limitations of the instrument. This modal chromaticism is directly inspired by Larkin's diaphanous imagery and semi-sentimental vision of the rural idyll contrasted with his characteristic dour pessimism. Light and shade, tone and semitone, beat and off-beat all play against each other in this manner to achieve similar results.

Coming and Going

Dark Tuesday Sounds

Working on a few interpretations of standards. I accidentally recorded the Kaoss pad along with the clean audio signal so couldn't take it out due to not sounding good. So, this was a warmup.

Summertime

a rough experiment with Live, Max/MSP and NASA's recent sample release

I Will Never Go To Space

Raining Blood

Ball Point Pen Thief [live]

Selectric play two standards from differing sides of our musical heritage

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Shoreham Standards

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AGW Showreel

From the Sixty Minute Songs project, but I liked it so I put it here too.

he lives a quiet life

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