Solo
anima mundi 2015.
These pieces were constructed from a number of disparate musical ideas and solo improvisations I recorded and which had accreted over many years in my musical 'library'. I wanted to make something from these fragments, and started on an intuitive sonic response to a number of recordings I felt had some potential. I began inserting the sound files into Audacity. It was uncanny how compatible many of the recorded fragments were and before too long these developing sound collages began to coalesce and take form. Extra instrumentation was added in places courtesy of Notion software. The work was further developed and transformed with Audacity.
Live recorded instruments - alto clarinet, alto sax, clavinova, piano & stainless steel mixing bowls.
Cover artwork for anima mundi.
Below are a selection of tracks from anima mundi.
long miles (above) was included in the compilation album CISA Local released on Migro Records 2017
CISA Local
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100 Edition 12" vinyl compilation, out on Migro Records, 16 Nov. 2017
A collaboration between Canterbury Christ Church University’s CISA research unit (Composition, Improvisation, and Sound Art) and the London-based Migro Records label, CISAlocal features works by eight experimental music-makers based in Kent, UK: James Worse, Will Glanfield, Martin Tanton, Anna Braithwaite, Nicholas De Carlo, Rothera Point, Alocasia Garden, Jon Law and Oli Genn-Bash.
CISA Local album cover
Computer Generated Music
In 2012 a friend told me about some free online computer software which allowed me to explore composition for multiple instruments. I began to play around with some ideas, which evolved as I became more able to use the software, and my ideas developed. I wrote over thirty scores, many of which have yet to be played with musical instruments. This was the beginning of a new creative process for me. I later bought a more sophisticated software programme, re-worked earlier pieces and wrote new ones. A number of these scores were performed live at Free Range in Canterbury in 2012 and 2017.
Three examples of the earlier computer generated scores.
