• 09/09/2026

    Stretto No.4

    The stretto canon was a staple of baroque music in the early 18th century. The familiar sound of a pipe organ has here been supplemented with modern synthesizers and digital beats.

    The pipe organ is considered to have been invented in the 3rd century BCE in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt, by Ctesibius - who is regarded by historians as the “father of pneumatics”.

  • 09/09/2026

    Unlucky For Some

    An insistent rhythmic drive from an irregular odd meter 13/8 pattern, also deploying accented interplay.

  • 09/09/2026

    Cutting Bracken

    A strathspey dance tune discovered in a 19th century book of Scottish fiddle music. It has now been arranged with added harmonies, counter-melodies and beats. Some of the drums are deliberately mis-timed to mimic the randomness of seasonal guns being fired at gamebirds in that highland landscape.

  • 09/09/2026

    Pelog No.3

    An exploration of music scales used in Indonesian gamelan music. Taken here in a different direction, trying to avoid obvious appropriation and pastiche.

  • 09/09/2026

    Rigaudon

    A baroque type of folk dance for couples, from southern France and popular during the 17th century reign of Louis XVI. This is a newly composed piece adopting the sprightly duple meter of the style.