Cassie

2006 – People 1

July 27, 2009
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Following on from the early years, I was starting to get the idea of working with people as inspiration for the music: Paul was an attempt to get the strings to feel like a real violin, Vincent was an exercise in how to write a simple solo piano lullaby, Charlotte, Richard and Cassie were all [...]

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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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The Essentialness of Music

February 5, 2008

About 14 years ago, after my mother died from cancer, I needed the help of a grief counselor to get through the grief process and be able to move on with my life. This led to me spending the next four years doing volunteer work in the Grief Center at the local Hospice. I basically [...]

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New clips on MySpace.com

June 1, 2007

There are two new clips on our MySpace page – Identification and Cassie. I spent today trying to cut the sessions down to clips short enough to post. I love the music so much, it is definitely hard to pick out just one part of it to be the clip. Identification and Cassie are both [...]

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The Loss is Still Strong

December 21, 2006

It is not quite two weeks since I lost my dear pet, Cassie. The grief and sense of loss is still so great at times, that it is almost impossible to do anything that requires thought and concentration – – such as writing this blog. When it seems that everyone around you is caught up [...]

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Cassie

December 12, 2006

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] It’s been about a week since I last wrote anything here. It was a week of pain, grief, doubt, and loss. My dear, sweet dog Cassie, who had been a constant companion and friend for 13 years, lost her life last Friday. Cassie had been a stray who [...]

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