Insoluble
It feels good to be writing music again; it’s been a while! It’s also fun to write a trance piece again. I’ve tried a new compressor in this track; the Reaktor ensemble
Plateau
A great track to put on repeat while you’re working — it’s got enough interest to keep from getting boring, whilst being sufficiently repetitive to help you focus. Plateau by Barry van
Fall for you
Another new track — and in 6/8! I love this time signature; it’s really well-suited to this genre and offers a little bit of interest in a world of 4/4, whilst still
Reflections
Probably the last track I’ll write before 2015, this one is about looking back at life and everything that’s happened. You can grab and listen to it on Soundcloud, or use the
[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
[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] 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