9 – Mad for the Pogo
June 19, 2009
This was an early demo for a TV company, for a kids TV show about exploring creativity, I ended up doing some incidental music for season 1 and all the music for season 2… I don’t believe I’m breaking any copyright here as this demo wasn’t used (if you work for the company involved and want me to remove it, apologies and no problem!).
8 – Working Title: Not Dido
June 19, 2009
This was originally produced to be a collaboration with Nicki Jaine, I think about 4 or 5 years ago, alas Nicki never got time to do her part… so it’s essentially a backing track written by me. If anyone wants to put words to this and sing on it, please be my guest!
Nicki’s stuff is great, if you don’t know her, her site is here.
7 – Diamonds, Dancers and Cancer
June 19, 2009
Here’s an example of some of my commercial work (2 more to follow)… this was produced for a combined contemporary dance performance and diamond show in aid of the Hong Kong Cancer Foundation… I think I could have done more to tighten up the start… it eventually builds into a kind of James Bond/Alfred Hitchcock bossa nova.
Just a bit of fun… I was playing around with how Jóhann Jóhannsson uses little splashes of a melodic motif bound together with big tracts of connective tissue, and I had the idea of linking it with one of my favourite Dr. Who epsiodes where the Sontarans travel back in time to made DaVinci paint multiple copies of the Mona Lisa in order to make themselves rich in the future. The explanation probably over-hypes the result by some order of magnitude.
An example of my early addiction to abstract slowness… a recording of birdsong at 4am when I was still living with my Mum from 1983, layered into 16 layers and slowed down by a factor of 64 (I think) using an old reel-to reel tape recorder. In retrospect, for a long long time after this I 2nd guessed what I thought people wanted to hear, and now I’m back in a similar place (for now). The cruelty was not my family BTW, just most of the rest of the village. One day I may write a book.
