Yearly Archives: 2021

Climates of the Mind, my collection of orchestral pieces representing various moods and states of mind, is now an album, available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Deezer and elsewhere (links at the end of this blog). Here are some notes on the individual tracks of Climates of the Mind: Nonchalance Nonchalance means behaving as if you are calm and carefree despite an underlying sense of unease or anxiety. In this music I had in mind the idea of a person (represented by the solo bassoon) moving nonchalantly through a variety of different environments, trying hard to stay “cool” and ignore the fact that all may not be quite as safe or predictable as it seems. Only at the very end does the mask of nonchalance [...]

Nature is a constant theme in my music and in the videos I have made with my music. My music is natural music, in the sense that it’s all in harmony with the laws of nature. I will explain what I mean by this in a blog I’ll be posting soon. Meanwhile, here is something that is not music but also reflects that connection between humans and nature that many of us feel instinctively. A few times in my life – times of intense feeling – an urge has come upon me to write poetry. I started this poem many years ago and almost finished it, but there were two or three lines I could never seem to find the right words for. I've found [...]