COMPOSITION/ARRANGING
Composition / Arranging Demos
Includes some extracts of orchestral and theatre works, and a few backing tracks
ORCHESTRAL (WASO): 0m 3s (Ray Irving producing)
MUSIC THEATRE (LIVE PERFORMANCE): 2m8s (Satellite)
THEME MUSIC: 4m19s (=FILM) (AUDIOBOOK THEME: 5m 18s) (FILM MUSIC 6m22s)
INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING: 7m18s (Lee Buddle engineer)
VOCAL WITH STRING ORCHESTRA: 9m10s
BACKING TRACKS: 12m45s
More demos below:
ELECTRONIC MUSIC DEMOS
Unicorn Holiday So Courageous
A very silly song in a KPop style, using AI vocals, backing played straight into Propellerhead Reason rack sounds.
Lyrics for the vocals suggested by rankings on the Warriner system 2013*
I recorded my own vocals then transposed them up an octave and put them into a KPop imitation voice I have collated on voicedub.ai
Interestingly (in this mix at 55s and 1m 09s) the AI made up a phrase of mock Korean presumably because the voices I uploaded included a small amount of Korean. The strange language in the video is Tolkien's Tengwar language font.
*Warriner, A.B., Kuperman, V. & Brysbaert, M. Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas. Behav Res 45, 1191–1207 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0314-x
The Glory of the Eternal Father
A piece of music composed completely using synthesizer sounds in Propellerhead Reason - this is one of my more popular synth pieces which was played at the Wildlands festival in January 2025. Originally composed for a projected light show, as a tribute to the music of Father Nehme Nehme, I ultimately released it separately earlier this year.
Magnificat
Sung by Samantha Ray
Simple accompaniment: sequenced harp and double bass
Choir is East West Symphonic Choir, helped by Samantha's vocals as well
PIANO DEMO
Mood Indigo
Live piano
Recorded at Crank Studios 2023 with Lee Buddle engineering