When I tell people I'm a composer the usual response is something along the lines of "Oh, I could never do that!" I'm often asked by musicians who are interested in composing how I do it and, more to the point, how they can do it. I can tell you what I do, how I do it, and the skills I developed over time that allow me to compose. But you are the one who is ultimately going to have to make it happen. This is the first in a series of posts on the foundational concepts of compo

Since I'm a composer, it shouldn't surprise you that I think about music a lot. Maybe even constantly. (Definitely constantly.) My mum often says that I have a one-track mind... and that track is whatever music I'm writing on that given day. One of the things I think about the most is how to construct interesting music that gets its message across clearly to the listener. If someone listens to something you've written and they walk away with it stuck in their head, you know y

Greetings, all! I've just put this this lovely new website together. I'll be getting a big, thought-out post together here in the next couple of days, but for now I'm focusing on the nuts and bolts and uploading the obscene number of files it's going to take to get this whole thing working. This could take a while... I am just now realizing that it's been years (like, ten of them) since I've organized all the files on my computer. Even though I have a CV with a list of all my