Ambient Music
Notes: The gap between seasons when Winter is not yet over and Spring not begun, but something magical is just beginning to happen in the world - it’s slowly awakening but is not yet fully awake.
Composed: 2019.
Instruments: String orchestra, alto flute, wind chimes, soprano and alto choir, synthesizer, stream and thunder sound effects.
Notes: Lying in bed listening to raindrops in the gutters after waking on a lazy Sunday morning.
Composed: 2020.
Instruments: String orchestra, piano, orchestral bells, wind chimes, synthesizer and rain and thunder sound effects.
Notes: About a journey to a new land - filled with excitement and happiness; but also punctuated with uncertainty and doubt.
Composed: 2019.
Instruments: String orchestra, duduk, horn in F, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, gong, tambourine, soprano and alto choir and five synthesizers.
Notes: Reminiscent of wind blowing through a pine forest with a small creek nearby.
Composed: 2023.
Instruments: String orchestra, Timpani, wind chimes, piano, three synthesizers and sound effects of wind in the trees.
Notes: Relaxing ambient piece based in a 2-note melody and using multiple synthesizers with wave sound effects.
Composed: 2025.
Instruments: Five synthesizers.
Notes: A short up-beat piece for an interesting array of instruments.
Composed: 2022.
Instruments: String orchestra, solo violoncello, pan pipes, timpani, temple blocks, dulcimer, tubular bells and three synthesizers .
Notes: Written specifically as music to relax to. Starts with the (purported) harmonic frequency of the Earth (7.83 Hz) and its overtones, which feel “uncomfortable” and synchronise with the listener's stress and tension, then gradually shifts into more natural harmonies, in so doing, dissipating the listener’s stress and tension. Maybe :-)
Composed: 2019.
Instruments: Oboe d’Amore, and two synthesizers.
Notes: Music to fall asleep to. The sounds are exactly those that would be heard in the remote, sub-Saharan African bush at night.
Composed: 2019.
Instruments: Alto flute, violincello and cricket sound effects.
Notes: The heliosphere is a vast, tear-drop-shaped bubble in space inflated by the Sun's solar wind. It acts as a cosmic shield, enveloping our solar system and protecting the Earth from deadly, high-energy interstellar radiation.
Composed: 2022.
Instruments: String orchestra with soprano and bass voices, 7 synthesizers, and a range of sound effects.
Notes: A simple, relaxing theme that adds a note with each repeat before inverting, expanding and then returning to its origin.
Composed: 2025.
Instruments: Piano and synthesizer.
Notes: Lying in a hammock stretched between two trees and looking up through the branches on a lazy Sunday afternoon after a big lunch.
Composed: 2021.
Instruments: String orchestra, harp and orchestral bells.
Notes: Piece based on a simple, three note melody which is repeated through the different instruments with minor variations and with sound effects to create the feeling of massive tectonic rumblings deep within the earth and the comparative, utter insignificance of man, notwithstanding all his knowledge, science and technology.
Composed: 2022.
Instruments: Symphony orchestra with Cor Anglais, bassoon, bass trombone, timpani. cymbals, shaker, wood blocks, tubular bells, SATB choir and various sound effects.