The Monster we Created January 2024 demos

Monster instrumentals

Preludes

In "Nature's Spirits", by Nicky Morris, her water spirit can be "formidable and destructive" (Morris,p.144,2020). "Between 1995 and 2015, inland flooding has affected 2.3 billion and killed 175000 around the world...By 2100, high tide flooding could hit the East coast of the United States every other day"( David Wallace Wells,p.62 ,2019). 
Imagining those drowning, I built up a wall of sound with guitars, synthesizers, phased vocals set against drum and sea storm samples, The melody represents a homage to those lives lost through Climate Change.

Underwater underneath

Climate Change is the monster we created.
This piece is the overture for a play with music I am writing.
A massive thank you to Thomas Sachs for his amazing work on the Prophet 600.

Monster

Life with and without the Monster who's the Monster

Life with and without the Monster

The Wonders of the Garden

The wonders of the Garden

As the Dalai Lama wrote of Buddhism, "Destruction or injury to life is strictly forbidden. Harming or destroying any being, from a human, to the tiniest insect, must at all costs be avoided. " 
This was the inspiration for this piece which I will place at the start of my Rock opera "The Monster we created" , a metaphor for Climate Breakdown.

Hymn to Life

"This is how my play about Climate Breakdown starts",,,So thank you for coming.  The play started for me to the sound of train wheels on our journey back from Liverpool university. As I scribbled down notes on a play about a climate breakdown, we received a phone call telling us that a dear friend (and fellow activist) had died. We later were to learn that he had taken his life. The grief hit us with the force of a hammer. I then knew that this play had to be written. 

The actors I have asked to act will not pretend to be our friend or anyone else but hopefully they will share the spirit of those who acted and continue to do so. They are not heroes in the sense that society will honour them but the spirit of the Earth will remember them. They are heroes to me.

Train

Train journey to Grief

3 keyboard voices :-
Yamaha piano
Micro Korg
Prophet 600

Mostly Light

This piece of music has been haunting me on the piano. I took it to the mellotron flute and cello and it told me a different story. Strange how my images always go back to Snowdonia

prelude one paths

A reflective meditation at a time of change on so many levels. Piano through phaser delay with compression and reverb.

Prelude Two Night Sky

This soundscape in my mind, describes when the protestor confronts the monster in my story for the monster we created. Is the monster in our minds or walking the Earth?
Artwork by Claire Miles.

Prelude 3 Monsters Everywhere

Richard Lafford