It used to be so easy with just a bank of keyboards to play, gigging with a couple of synths, organ, electric piano & a rock band
around you etc.
Then along came midi and computers and I became comfortable with the technology again, creating lots of
music in midi only.
Nowadays you have such a lot of midi, sampling and audio technology that it can stifle creativity.
The home composer has to be a composer, musician, have an understanding of how choirs, orchestra, guitarists, bass players, drummers
and so on all play or sing. The synthetic compositions have to encapsulate the techniques of "real" musicians to sound real.
Not
only that, but the composer has at his or her fingertips now all the equipment that you can find in a full recording studio.
So the composer has to know all about mixers, effects, mixing and mastering. It really does stifle creativity.
My ambitions
then, and you'll appreciate this when you see the equipment pages, include:
Writing more music in a wide variety of styles.
I
want to write more choral music and focus on orchestral too, as well as my own brand of experimental electronic music.
Understanding
more about synthesis, sampling, effects and all the individual components of the equipment that I own.
Mixing and mastering to achieve
professional quality recordings (or as near as I can get).
And most importantly, I want to write a lot more Christian music, in many
styles, that will bless those that hear it and be pleasing to God.
Hopefully you'll see the progress in all these areas
as new tracks are added to the website over time.
Of course, us composers, musicians and engineers are our own worst enemies.
The majority of people who listen to our music either like it or they don't, purely from a musical perspective. They don't hear
the subtle nuances that drive us daft. They don't realise the time spent on tweaking a sound, or an effect or balancing a mix.
I'd just like these things to be more intuitive such that I can get on with writing the music!
