...a plethora of creative nonsense...
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy Father’s will left me a great collection of manuscripts of transcriptions he had made of various folk melodies, processionals, carols and other tunes. I have been slowly working to further trascribe some of these myself to midi files, and to re-imagine some of these …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is a taster of something I am working on. Inspired by techno, orchestral metal and Hans Zimmer, creating some pretty intense soudtrack inspired pieces. This started from messing about the explore the sounds in Spitfire’s Iceni Library and went from there. Christian Bodden · …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI had been minded for a while to work on a version of this song. I am not quite sure where/when it entered my head, and it took me a while to think back and actually locate what the song actually is (via The Pogue’s …
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Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night was first a 15-minute wait in the pissing rain… For a 3-mile journey on a number 19 bus… To a party in a house nobody knew… And probably shouldn’t go to anyway… …The bible in my pocket and a bottle in my hand… …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is my entry for the #MyBridgertonScore competition by Spitfire Audio. This is the first time I have ever scored to a preexisiting video and has been quite an experience! There’s a lot I would do different next time, but at least I have done …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust finished this. It’s synthwave, with Orchestral elements. This is how I see the Cyborg XG-44E stuff progressing. Christian Bodden · The Battle March Of The Cyborgs That’s all for now.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been working for a while with the amazing BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover from Spitfire Audio in some of my tracks lately. For those of you who have not encountered this, Spitfire are a company who produce deep sampled libraries aimed predominatly at film scoring …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo, for a change I decided not to buy a guitar, much to the amazement of my partner and my son. For many many years, any spare cash I had was religiously spent on synthesisers, and this Christmas I decided to revive that great tradition. …
Reading Time: 6 minutesSo tell us about this new project then? I started writing this about 20 odd years ago – I guess quite a lot was the standard teenage/early 20s angst type stuff – it was all based around leaving Cambridge and moving up to Leeds, growing …
Reading Time: 2 minutesLaughing, shouting, screaming, pouting,Spinning, wheeling, double-dealing,Up and down and in and out,Nameless faces, I can’t count,Dancing, prancing, dicing, chancing,Running, jumping, leaping, bumping,Never stopping, never dropping,Going on and on and on,This is all my life is for,Had enough and still need more,This is all I’m going …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo. It’s here. It’s been a pretty chaotic few weeks, what with Christmas preparations, work exhaustion, my heating breaking down and various other general life issues, but I have actually done it. 21st Century Carol by Requiem Ensanglanté I came up with a weird idea …
