2017, AND THINGS MOVE ON …

… in various ways.  The main news for this site is that the new CHRONOMETER album is coming along nicely.  There will be four tracks, but they will be longer than before – as seems right for the material, allowing it to grow fully.  I am collaborating with Michael Hinton on some of the sound design.  (Michael had a hand in one of the BESTIARY tracks, but his work will be far more prominent in this set.)  And, as usual, John Mercer will weave sonic magic in the production.  Release is due for the spring.

I am also in the middle of changing computer.  The old Mac Pro warhorse has lasted very well indeed and did a great job, but seven years is a long time in this world, and I am looking forward to an even smoother ride when working.  I can’t quite believe the memories of floppy discs and early MIDI and SMPTE sequencing.  Kilobytes; megabytes; gigabytes: we deal in terabytes now, and counting.  (And often deliver on flash stick, when not via the cloud.  Almost all my recorded music can be stored on a drive much smaller than a pencil.  And .mp3 quality is quite something nowadays.)

I am also considering writing some new educational material for the shop.  The book on teaching composing in primary schools is still selling so well and attracting such favourable comments that I’d like to produce another book with some of the other workshop and teaching ideas which weren’t included in the original volume.