Arrival - 17 Minutes 50 Seconds

Soothing strings and gentle keys create a perfect platform for quiet contemplation. Great for bedtime or homework when you want to create a calm environment

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For a piece that was written for a wedding, it's ironic that there is only one voice playing at a time. This particular session was written to accompany the guests as they arrived in the hall and took their seats. It made sense to keep the voices separate, although connected in the middle, until after the vows! This is another session that I will take into the studio with a real string quartet / quintet.

When I was recording I was thinking about how beautiful, majestic and yet, delicate, the whole idea of marriage can be. I like to think that the idea of marriage is a good one - that you can meet another human being and create something amazing, just the two of you initially and then of course possibly more. I like to think that when people get married they're head over heels with optimism for the future and full of hope - I know I was.

I had never written music for a wedding before, I had no idea how to do it or what should be done and I fretted over it for months. With music to accompany the guests arriving, the arrival of the bride, the signing of the register and the exit from the hall, simplicity was the order of the day. Working on Victoria & Dan's wedding led to the development of the Anam Cara, a Celtic word meaning soul friend.

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Amp Driven - 13 Minutes 30 Seconds

61 beats per minute, piano driven, strings, organs and a chilled out vibe

music2work2 is constantly evolving and moving forward, I think this is why it works as background music for people who wish to create something.  Whereas a traditional song might refine a theme and repeat it in a familiar verse / chorus structure, music2work2 comes out in a continuous flow and goes where the muse takes it. 

Amp Driven is a good example of this but rather than have me write about it – why don’t you download it and see if it works for you.  Create a “Work” playlist if you don’t have one already and throw a bunch of tracks in there.  Add Amp Driven and see if you stay “in the moment” longer than normal.

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113 - 17 Minutes 43 Seconds

Session built around three different beats all at 113 beats per minute - love the "Teenage Poetry" voice from the Triton Extreme[audio:1132.5.mp3| titles=113 |artists=music2work2]

I like to have this on and just dream, come up with new stuff - if I'm tackling a particular problem this helps me work through it.

Problem solving is one of the things that fascinates me - the idea of how do you do something if you have never done it before. The idea that as kids we are taught basic tools and techniques and then we string those together, build on them, to develop even more complex techniques which we can apply to new situations etc. What I get excited about is true innovation - that moment when you make a little leap into the unknown and come up with something truly new and unique - that is what this music is for.

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