Looking back over some previous musical ideas, I kept being drawn to the previous ideas of Windmills and seasonal change. There was something about being in ...

I recently had an opportunity to work with a colleague on a piece of music relating to the environment. I was sent a file with a fingerstyle guitar piece fol...

Experimental composer Steve Reich, used tape loops to make his 1963 work ‘it’s gonna rain’ which featured repeated spoken lines and ambient sounds on reel to...

Recently we have had a few scattered flurries of snowfall, some have settled and lingered others dissipating in a mist of sleet and rain. There is certainly ...

Once the initial bite of winter has taken hold it seems to me that winter tide could flow in several ways when dealing with the inspirational muse of the win...

If this blog is to be indicative of a musical process relating to my own compositional inspirations and development, it seemed crucial to explore an environm...

The MA Music and the Environment begins with a residential trip to Balintore in Easter Ross, one of the Seaboard villages in the northern stretch of the Mora...