June 2009

Victoria – 7 minutes 15 seconds

June 11, 2009

Sisters rock and Victoria Richardson rocks more than most…   $1.99 Download Now Written for my sister Victoria’s 40th, this starts out as a very delicate, almost melancholic piece and turns into something rather beautiful. The major melody at 4:50 is sung in my head as 4 distinct notes: "Vic-to…-ri-a." Happy Birthday Vic – remember [...]

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New Theme Development 137 bpm

June 10, 2009

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’m actually enjoying the whole practicing thing at the moment – historically I have balked at the thought of sitting down and running through scales and arpeggios but it’s like many things – once you start, so much good stuff begins to manifest that you kick yourself for [...]

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Marsha – 18 minutes 57 seconds

June 9, 2009

Piano, Organ, Strings with a renaissance edge   $1.99 Download Now I used three voices on this track: Piano, Organ and Strings. I have been using organ more and more on the Kelli project and I wanted to see how it would fit into the overall style of this kind of piece. As ever, the [...]

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Practicing in 113

June 5, 2009

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’ve started every day this week by practicing to “the click” – to a metronome. I’m a big fan of prime numbers so Monday was 101 beats per minute, Tuesday 103, Wednesday 107, Thursday 109 and today was 113. I will continue up the primes until I can’t [...]

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Paul – 13 minutes 23 seconds

June 4, 2009

Strings and Piano – written for Paul.   $1.99 – Download Now It’s a crazy information overload world – especially for those of us who live in front a screen. Where do you start: email, internet, tweetdeck, rss feed, facebook or the word document and spreadsheet that you’re supposed to be working on – the [...]

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Charlotte – 10 minutes 9 seconds

June 3, 2009

Strings and Piano – written for Charlotte.   $1.99 Download Now So this is Charlotte’s session – who knows how this music comes out but I do think of her and smile when I listen to this piece Two strings based upon three distinct piano themes. I particularly like the third one in 5 / [...]

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Cassie – 20 minutes 1 second

June 2, 2009
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Strings, piano and a church organ – written in memory of a good friend . Put the words “Creative Process” into Google and you’ll get over 95 million results – maybe I should read a few but I’m inherently suspicious of patented 4 step systems, 5 stage cycles or 8 discrete states of consciousness. Creativity [...]

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Richard – 13 minutes 52 seconds

June 1, 2009

Multiple strings over two distinct piano themes inspired by my brother, Richard.   $1.99 Download Now My older brother has his birthday every year on the same day, the 11th of December – it is the most normal thing about him. He is an amazing human being and I love him. This was written for [...]

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