BBC Introducing Composer & Recording Artis utilises recordings of environmental sounds (construction machinery, sirens, alarms, engines, cafe equipment, leaf blowers etc.) to create harmony and music that is juxtaposed against notated instrumental music and voices.

Alternatives To Despair (EP) by Neil March  [2020, Demerara Records]

Selection of Neil March tracks including those featured on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone (BBC Radio 6 Music), Late Junction (BBC Radio 3), Tom Robinson Show (BBC Radio 6 Music), BBC Introducing Mixtape (BBC Radio 6 Music), BBC Sounds Summer Playlist 2017 (BBC Sounds), BBC Three Counties Radio, Resonance FM, NTS Radio, Exile FM, Radio Dacorum, Conquest Radio, The Source FM, Radio Wigwam, Lonely Oak Radio, RKC and various others.

NEIL MARCH TRACKS

Opening track from new (as yet unreleased) EP by British Composer Neil March uses pre-recorded actual sounds from his living and working environment not merely as sound effects but as instruments of melody and harmony, altered and enhanced digitally and placed alongside notated music to produce a thoroughly original style in which the everyday urban soundscape influences the entire compositional process.

Music to plan towns by (EP)

Music to plan towns by - I  by Neil March

Melodic slice of electronic art music infused with industrial 'found sounds' playing harmonies with notated instruments. Composed for premiere performance at Latitude 2017.

The Whole Town Is Singing by Neil March

NEIL MARCH :           Composer/Keyboards/Assistant Producer
MATTHEW SAXON:   Flute
JAMES SAXON:         Piano
MARK SAXON:           Cello
JOHN MOLLOY:        Technical Director/Synthesizer/Producer
DAMON JONES:        Technical Director/Executive Producer

New single by BBC Introducing artists Neil March & The Music of Sound, first in a four movement tribute to 'the awesome power and versatility of water'. Follows the highly acclaimed 'Music To Plan Towns By' EP and is the first release involving the line-up that played the BBC Introducing Stage @ Latitude 2017.

WATER

WATER (1st MOVEMENT) by NEIL MARCH & THE MUSIC OF SOUND

Final track from the 'Alternatives To Despair' EP sees instrumental parts playing off against saws, sirens, hovercrafts etc. but with an air of melancholy that intensifies in the final section.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Four) by Neil March

Every note and every sound on this track is played by environmental sounds that have been recorded and fed into Audacity.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Three) by Neil March

Environmental sounds from which pitch can be identified are used for harmonic as well as ambient purposes and juxtaposed against notated music. New EP by BBC Introducing composer and recording artist.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Two) by Neil March

Alternatives To Despair (Part One) by Neil March

Composer/Artist (signed to Monochrome Motif Records); Arts Council & Lottery supported creative entrepreneur; tutor & module leader, ICMP; Fresh on the Net moderator & reviews writer: blogger: author, husband & dad.

Alternatives To Despair (Part Four) by Neil March

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