In my Production Fundamentals course, we’ve been studying synthesis and MIDI composition using Ableton Live, with a particular focus on how these techniques can be applied to EDM and synth-wave music. I got inspired to write a basic synth-wave track…
Doubt
After discussions with my tutor, we’ve decided to make the portfolio pieces a little shorter this time around, and a little more focused on what we’ve been studying. This semester I’ve been diving into classical music writing and techniques during…
Walking on Moonbeams
This is an old song, written in my late teens. I needed something to record for a music production unit for uni and selected to do a version of this with some new ideas associated with it – specifically the…
Into The Black
This is a ground-up rewrite of a piece I wrote as introductory music for a tabletop roleplaying game using the Star Trek Adventures ruleset. The goal was to create a unique “Trek” tune that evoked a similar mood to that…
Arcology
Arcology was written as a submission for a monthly challenge that Eilish Gilligan ran on her twitch channel most of last year. The challenge for that particular month was to select an image and write a musical response to it.…
Study in Gm for Bb Clarinet
This is literally a composition study – my tutor asked me to create a solo piece for an orchestral solo instrument. Here it is. No muss, no fuss, but a bit of a chug to the main theme and some…
Intorno al Giro
This is not the most recent version of this piece of music, nor is it the best recording of it. I am looking to expand this piece out to around 15-20 minutes as an entry for the 2022 Paul Lowin…
Velvet
Velvet is a musical piece I composed and recorded last year. It’s an up-tempo jazz-adjacent brass and rhythm section piece that uses a mixture of legato brass samples from Spitfire Audio’s BBC:SO Discover orchestral sampler, as well as a number…