Bath City Test Piece

This is the title of the first track uploaded to my new myspace.

It's a minimal house inspired piece created from samples recorded around the City of Bath.

This is the first major musical piece I have had to produce as part of my course in Creative Musical Technology and I have learnt a lot about my strengths and weaknesses in creating it.

I have learnt a huge amount about recording in outdoor, public spaces, about editing and manipulating samples and about arranging and structuring the percussive elements of a 'dance' track.

I am incredibly pleased and I guess you could say proud of the results. It's not perfect but achieving perfection was never part of the task. This piece is definitely better then anything similar I have done before so in terms of artistic development, it's being great.

I feel ready to move on from what I have done with this piece, taking with me the lessons I have learnt, and am incredibly excited about working on some more, minimal style compositions where I can explore to a greater extent some of the ideas presented in 'Bath City Test Piece'.

Another project nearing completion now is my 'Deaf To...' piece for the Enslave Your Senses art festival held in Bath on the 22nd/23rd of May. This is a soundscape using incredibly quiet, unnoticed/ignored sounds which I have recorded, amplified and arranged. I will be uploading this piece to the myspace soon.