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

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...

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

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

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...

The latest experiments of using the season of Autumn as an inspiration for some compositional ideas abruptly ended in true Scottish...

After recent experiments with some ‘minimalist’ inspired works relating to environment and technology and a composition inspired by a...

Whitelee Windfarm is positioned on what can certainly be called a moor. In his book, The Moor: Lives Landscape Literature, William Atkins...

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

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