Nocturne
I’ve been rather remiss in updating my blog — so this track appeared on Soundcloud a while ago, but is only now appearing here. An orchestral piece, Nocturne focuses on an oboe/bassoon
Web Directions 2014 Reflections
I’ve just returned from Web Directions 2014 in Sydney. Overall, it was a great experience, with some valuable take-aways. I’ve jotted down a few of my thoughts around the conference — and
[Music] Old gum tree
Nursery rhymes have recently become a much more prominent part of my day-to-day life: a not unexpected development when you have a four-month-old son. 🙂 I don’t, however, see why they should
Where you were: collected pieces
Where you were by barryvan
[Music] Where you were
This track is a melange of orchestral, trance, dance, and chip. It’s also probably my “loudest” track to date — whilst I haven’t yet managed to put a compressor on the whole
[Music] Unforgot
It’s been far too long since I published a piece of music. Part of the reason for that is that I was, for a while, without a sound-card in my computer —
[Music] Want to be
Want to be was a fun track to write. In the “chorus”, the melody sweeps across the the track in an almost operatic, Andrew Lloyd Webber-esque fashion. The “verse” sections contrast quite
Book review: Instant Geany IDE
Due, I think, to the popularity of my dark Tango colour scheme for Geany, I was recently approached by Packt publishing to review Instant Geany IDE, by Nguyễn Hồng Quân. Although I
[Music] Evermore
This track is somewhat experimental in its textures and timbres: it combines instruments such as traditional Indian percussion with pipe organ and pitched-down, vibrato-ed cor anglais. For all that, it’s a simple,
[Music] Desperate
Desperate flits between trance and almost-but-certainly-not-dub. There’s a mixture of various synths, the apparently almost-obligatory strings, and a cor anglais which has been twisted in on itself. This is a somewhat experimental
[Music] Autumn
This piece was a lot of fun to write. It’s in 7/8, with the bar broken into 2/3/2 rather than the more traditional 3/2/2. There’s a severely tortured Irish flute in the
[Music] Fundament
I wrote this track back around July 2012 for inclusion in the 2012 Songs for the Cure album, but as it looks as though that’s not going to happen (no word on