When I am not building VST instruments and effects then I am composing music. My preferred musical style is Space Music - think Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Tomita, Jarre & Larry Fast. I grew up in the 80's so of course my music and instruments are also influenced by the sounds of Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Ultravox & Japan. Space Music because it is so often about space but because music helps us create spaces in ourselves.
Like many composers I have a love/hate relationship with my music. I need to create things but somehow they are so rarely exactly what I want them to be. I guess that the results are really little parts of me. I offer them in the hope that someone else will relate to them and gain something in the way that I have gained from all the musicians I have appreciated over the years.
The Body Pool
01. Grand River (3:27)
02. Waterfall (3:43) excerpt
03. Whirlpool (5:30)
04. The Body Pool (5:49)
05. Growing Sky (5:33)
06. Night Reflections (4:31) excerpt
07. Immersion (7:49)
08. Temple Of The Falls (6:03) excerpt
09. Delta (8:45)
10. Finding Flow (6:03)
Demo excerpts are 256 kbps MP3 to show the quality of the album download.
Below are full tracks streamed from YouTube.
Space Music
Ambient
Berlin School
Electronic
Electro
Instrumental
Experimental
call it what you will,
it is my music
my Latest Album
Demo tracks are exactly that. They remain copyright to me and my property. Copying or distributing this work in any fashion without my permission is immoral and illegal. If you do want to use some of my music for a Radio Show or a Movie then just contact me and I will most likely give you permission.
discography
a potted history
2008
The Body Pool
2007
I spent much of this time working on SynthStudio Packs.
There was a possible double CD but that got lost in the great drive incident of early 2008
2006
In Apparently Irreversible Succession
2005
Stairway Into The Stars
My Electric Country
Lonely Animals
After Hours
2004
New Growths
swapped Reason for Energy XT
and VST synths and fx
Breaks Between Pauses
The New Space
Album
2003
Slow Vision Traffics
Lonely Midnight
321
abandoned Apple Mac and
hardware studio and went 100% virtual with Reason on Windows
2002
The End Of The Circuit
2001
Orbits Of Attraction
The Place Less Visited
2000
Windows Open Senses Tuned
The Edge Of Transmission
The
Life Complex
The Grand Journey Of Marco Polo
dropped pseudonyms to use my own
name
1999
Gods Of The Desert as Column
3-57
A Sea Called Solaris as Column
3-57
1st Windows PC and virtual synthesizers
1995-1999
12 x Column 3-57 albums
swaped to Apple Mac and Vision sequencer
(formerly used Atari 1040STE running Prodigy and before that a Korg SQD-1 sequencer)
1993
Penance EP as Destructor Creator Destructor
1992-1997
5 x Benedict albums
1990-2000
5 x Aeroplastic Voice albums
Column 3-57 was really just an earlier
evolution of the style that I compose in now. Some of the earlier work is quite
Berlin School and New Wave at the same time. 'Solaris' & 'Gods' were
labelled as Column 3-57 albums but really they were the point of change to
composing under my own name.
Benedict was the other, softer, half of me that I felt I couldn't express whilst working under my other guises. Benedict releases tended toward the New Age.
Destructor Creator Destructor was a one off experiment in writing Heavy Metal with electronics. I really wanted to form a live band to play the songs but it never happened - a shame because I always wanted to be a metal god.
Aeroplastic Voice was my attempt at firstly
emulating New Wave artists like Gary Numan and Ultravox and then EBM Industrial
artists like Front 242 and Skinny Puppy. Other things got thrown in too along
the way.
Grand River
from my new album "The Body Pool"
River images are courtesy of www.freenaturepictures.com
Finding Flow
from my new album "The Body Pool"
Images are of the Brisbane River around New Farm taken on my Sunday afternooon walk - with a special someone.