Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with Libyan painter Matug Aborawi and filmmaker Tariq Elmeri to realise a video project for Matug’s upcoming exhibition “El Sur y El Sueño&…
…three years later! It’s the way of every blog I’ve ever started. A burst of enthusiasm, followed by a dwindling output, with longer and longer gaps between entries until… Well…
“Father, please forgive me – it has been three months, two weeks and three days since my last confession…” I know you’re used to it by now… I am a sporadic blogger …
Harking back to the thinking that prompted Technological Roadblocks, or The Kore Of The Problem?, over the last couple of days I’ve been exploring some of the multeity of effects I have availabl…
One of the toughest things to learn to do when composing to order is to translate the concepts, ideas and feelings producers and directors try to convey into an understanding of what it actually is th…
Typical as it is, having set up and started to learn my new monitors, I fell sick and spent the next couple of days in bed, unable to get into the studio and take advantage of the “new gear buzz…
Almost to a man, everyone who records their own music will tell you that the one part of your signal chain you cannot even consider skimping on is monitoring. Unless you can really hear every nuance i…
So, I know I need to do break the back of this unproductive period I’m going through. I’ve been calling it “writer’s block” because, well, because that’s easily und…
So, I’m not even going to apologise. Let’s just get on with this! The last month has been the usual cry of “Lots of writing (or, at least, playing) but little recording!” And…
I’m not even going to say that it’s been over a month since I’ve posted anything here – that’s self-evident and… oh. One of my major problems with writing is develo…
OK, so this week it looks like I’ve failed to record anything worth uploading for you guys to hear… But I haven’t been being (that) lazy, really! After my success last week with my r…
A week or so ago, Matt Stevens posted the stems for “Big Sky”, one of the tracks from his excellent album “Ghost” and requested that people remixed it for him. I grabbed them a…
One problem I regularly face when trying to develop a piece of music is finding the right sounds… This has always been an issue of course, but these days with multi-gigabyte sample libraries and…
OK, I’ll come straight out with it – it’s not been a particularly productive week. In fact, since I finished the rough guitar sketches for my last post I haven’t done much at a…
I spent a very warm Sunday afternoon in the studio knocking out some very quick sketches of the acoustic-guitar-developed ideas that have been floating around for a while. I thought that having done a…
The fact that my last recorded output was five months ago doesn’t actually mean I haven’t been doing anything at all. It just means I have nothing to show for it right now! But of course I…
I had my first blog in 1994! I wrote about going through a particularly bad break-up. It was excerpted in the “Funnies” section on the back-page of a the biggest industry magazine in my fi…
