There are over 100 pieces of music on this page, which I've attempted to organize into categories as follows...
Also, if for some reason you're interested, there is a whole nother page -- the archives of a lot of my pre-2004 pieces. They're not as high quality in various ways for obvious reasons, but I think some of them are quite creative and/or cute!
mp3s:
° Allsorts
° 
Kingsmeadow
° UKYCC Stories
° MONDAY
° hearts & minds
° For Those in Peril On The Sea
° Crown Princess
° Songs
° Piano
° Exercises/Game Arrangements
midis:
° Allsorts
° Crown Princess
° Lightened
° Shadows of Fortune II
archives:
° Pre-2004 pieces
...and to dream // Version 2!
- This was actually written just as a first sketch for a film opening, and I don't know, it might change completely, but I figured I'd post this up as is cos I kinda like it and it's a bit different :) Ambient noises with guitar, soundtracky and pretty :) Sept 2010
EDIT, Oct 2010: So, yeh, I kinda jumped the gun there I think! There are now, just to be special, two versions of this piece.
Afterwords - Ah, now, this... I'd been saying I wanted to write something 'modern' and 'serious' again sometime, also something filmic, something smaller scale and something with oboe in! This kind of ends of fitting most of those (not so much filmic). Odd mix of both interesting modern and really quite pretty and sentimental~ Vaughan Williams' Flos Campi definitely on my mind, Sibelius' violin concerto less obviously and most obscurely Les Miserables -- this isn't really related or a particular scene though. August 2010
Way Out - A mix of quite predictable notes and odd noises. Kinda experimental, mostly improv. Unease. July 2010
Impromptu ~ oboe solo [sheet music] - I play the oboe and I wanted to write something oboe-ish. Maybe more than one thing, someday! I'm not very original with titles, am I? ^.~ Never mind, this has an impromptu feel. June 2010
Titles - Opening titles for something kind of heroic and heartwarming! Umm... It needs a title, really. Suggestions? April 2010
In Flux Ending - Music for the end of a series of short films. Gently moving piano + lovely double bass! Jan 2010
Flourish Dance - a fun little dance type tune, basically learning how to use Quantum Leap's Gypsy instrument :) The original tune came from the neatest script ever on Harmony Assistant which randomly generates a piece for you. Edited rather by me, obviously.. August 2009
Consequences - This was actually the first thing I wrote for MONDAY (see below) - as a sort of image piece before I'd seen the film, and when the opening was going to be completely different. Obviously the style completely changed in the finished thing, but a few notes from this made it in. Anyway, I really rather like this as an independent piece. April 2009
Fireproof Princess - This was written in some sort of delerium over the course of one night and one day (in that order). I had the idea and the title for ages... it's something to do with Jessie and Avalanche :) The piece I wrote is much less Hans Zimmer than I'd originally thought, but that's good too! ....In a bizarre way, it feels like a tonal, film-music-y version of the Furioso from Piece. Spot the theme shared with The Proof That You Existed. March 2009
The Proof That You Existed - I actually wrote this to picture-- to the last scene of FFVII: Crisis Core. (Which I haven't played, but judging by scripts and such, it's at least a million times better than Before Crisis.) It's very dramatic and sad, as you might guess if you know the plot.... March 2009
EDIT: You can now watch the vid with the music here! As you might notice, it's not necessarily, quite, entirely, really quite film score. As in... I was inspired by various "tribute" videos with film score, so it is more standalone, like that, than it might be otherwise, if I scored the entire game!
Remembering The Orange Café - A very short thing for oboe and small orchestra. Actually an arrangement of the start of a piano piece I wrote last month :) March 2009
Famous Five Theme - For a radio play of the first of the Famous Five stories. This is kind of... funny music ^^ November 2008
Journey to a Treasure Island - This rather excitable piece plays in the background of narration while they're having a happy car journey to Kirrin Bay. November 2008
Star Trek: Rescue - Soo yeah, I've been watching Star Trek TNG... And this is a Star Trek-y type theme! Heavily indebted to various things by Jerry Goldsmith~ It's also, like, 'comfort music' ^^ Sept 2008
Bright and Breezy - This sounds like something for an animation... or especially for a semi-annoying advert! Aug/Sept 2008
Piece For Orchestra -
i - Prologue
ii - The Dead Land
iii - Furioso
My final composition for uni. 10 minutes for full orchestra. I actually won a prize for this! :) :)
(The version presented here is really more of a mock-up than an actual like 'recording', but tis ok. It just shows a lot more on things like this that are really written for orchestra and not computer, and without taking a LOT of time to improve the sound!) This took inspiration from TS Eliot's The Hollow Men, and also from Schoenberg (♥) and Shostakovich. And Stravinsky, in the abstract, without having listened to any lately. And John Williams. And Hans Zimmer. And ... stuff. We have here my continuing interest in crazy rhythmic energy..... and atonality XD (I LOVE IT, sriusly! Sooo much fun. Don't run away screaming now..)
March-May 2008
3 Haikus in Space -
One
Two
Three
Featuring my brother on tenor sax and me on piano and, uh, spoken voice? Read the haikus here.
November 2007/May 2008
Letters to Roxanne / Roxanne's Arrival - from Cyrano. At the front, Cyrano writes Christian's letters to Roxanne... then, in the second half, that's her carriage, wonderfully, impossibly, rolling up over the horizon. March 2008
Incursion Excursion - In which cartoon heroes sneak into the evil facility, sneak the plans to the DeathStar various secret things out and run away and out of the window just in time to escape the guards!! I had much fun with percussion and rhythm on this. March 2008
What News The Eagle Brought - "Sire," said the Eagle, "when you have heard my news you will be sorrier of my coming than of the greatest woe that ever befell you." From The Last Battle. A very slow, empty, depressing sort of piece - with real live oboe! March 2008
The Ape In Its Glory - From earlier in The Last Battle, the chapter of this name- a grand, dark processional. March 2007
11: Car Park - Part of an acousmatic score to a very weird film we made for the UBFS 48-hour film challenge. There's a lot of kitchenware in this! October 2007
Moving Staircases - About comedic ghosts and constantly shifting castle architecture and that sort of Harry Potterish thingum :) Very short. August 2007
TMP: Jessie's OK - A quiet end-of-episode cue. February 2007
The Mysteriously Appearing Space Lion Chronicles -
Lion Seaches for a Hat
On Board The Spaceship
Hat Searches For a Lion
This is very silly! ^^ Inspired by writeitbaby - an lj community we ran where you had to create something every day or the world would explode - these are... basically old-school game music homages, especially the second two (spot the mario reference!) based on a plot we had going. see also THIS amazing thing made by Sezan. March 2007
OneChance - My final studio assignment in 1st year! We had to write a 2-3 minute piece using a given set of sample instruments. That was it!! Sooo... we get heavily stylized electronic dramatic fun-ness... a little in the vein of MGS ^^ (And I got an A, w00t!) May 2006, remastered July 2008
TMP: 'Collapse' Finale - The end of a TV series... tragedy and catharsis. January 2006
Sleepless - Written for a French Revolution fic by dredpiratejenny which has unforunately since gone offline :( June 2005
Lucy in The Forest - My first real film/orchestral piece -- A level music composition based on a scene in chapter 9 of Prince Caspian. April 2005
KingsmeadowOver the year 2010-11 I worked on music for a short film. It's called Kingsmeadow and it's about .... football! It's also very beautiful, gently humourous - and engaging even if, like me, football would not generally be your thing! That's kind of the point. It focuses on a day in the life of a semi-pro club and their community, and you can find out more here. I believe there's a DVD in the works and HOPEFULLY someday a TV slot?!? Anyway, from my point of view, hahha this was a lot of work! It's a short film as I said but the director wanted music for all but a couple minutes~ As usual, though I had a bunch of stylistic wobbles (temp tracks were everything from prog to Hans Zimmer -- SPOT WHICH IS WHICH) there were ultimately a couple of tracks and elements that I felt really pleased with :) So here's a taster. (Also "And to dream" in allsorts eventually made its way in to this.)
Track 2 - This heavily features the sound design/prog(post-prog? I dunno my genres!)/guitar elements that were quite a feature of this score :)) It's also the one that plays on the website if you let it. April 2011?
Track 5 - This one took So Much Work, haha. But listening now I think it was pretty well worth it :) Plays over a twilight sky with people arriving at the club at the end of their day, and sort of bridges the gap stylistically between the stuff you've already heard and what's to come... June 2011
Track 7 - This is the ending. And it's very epic :)) Although, to be fair, not as ridiculously epic as my first go at it! Heee. June 2011
Track 8 - Oddly enough this low key little dooda is on of my favourites definitely. The credits sequence of the film was unbelievably cute (primary school kids' football match ^____^). May 2011
From end of October to December 2009 I was writing music for a series of short web-released docoumentaries on the UK Youth Delegation To Copenhagen. Here follows some of music I wrote, some of it actually from the films, some of it going off on slight (or not so slight) musical tangents.
You can see all the films here, and find out more about the Youth Delegation here. (All but the first film "Prologue: Emma" have music by me.)
This was in many ways one massive exercise in speed-writing ... totally exhausting, but definitely good for me to try out - however perfunctorily - a new style and set of instruments.
Tom For a film that was a sort of retrospective on the mixed experience that was Copenhagen. Like Gemma's it starts small and grows in energy & positivity through the film as the resolution for the next year is discussed. Although Darran's film might just be my favourite on a purely musical basis, this film is definitely my favourite overall. December 2009
Gemma A long piece for one of the films - this original ending only available here! XD December 2009
Porpoise - Another piece that went on a total tangent, but I luff nonetheless. Kinda like a "rock interlude" or something ^^ November 2009
Drum-y-ness - A much softer piano-based version of this ended up in Dave's film, but in some ways I prefer this more edgy version. November 2009
EVER EVER EVER - I love love love this piece, haha XDD It's kind of very like an extended intro to a rock song or something. The film it eventually was mixed and looped into where Darran Martin cycles all the way to Denmark is also really neat. November 2009
Something More reflective and acoustic - the guitar lick in Ever Ever Ever was based on this. November 2009
M e s m e r - Atmospheric piano, drums and swooofy noises. October 2009
exhausted - Using a guitar bit I wrote for a TMP song that was never finished- only BACKWARDS XD The title kind of sums this one up, really ... October 2009
Hopeful Anthem - This and "exhausted" were the first two pieces I came up with for this project, before any of actual filming. Although they weren't used in the end they kind of capture two extremes of mood in these films. October 2009
MONDAY is a new film, directed by Adam Tyler (who also did hearts & minds. I finished the score at the start of June... thought I'd FINALLY post it and give you some idea what I've been up to the last couple months!
It's a very tense, sparse, scary score. Atmosphere not melody. It's also 25 minutes of music(!), in two uninterrupted sections. Play it in the background..... if you want to be quite freaked out!
a note: I've divided this into tracks for easy of download / listenage / because I wanted track titles ... but the first four tracks and then the last three run into each other without a break. I think in general I prefer the second half.
1. Entrance
2. Union
3. Wait
4. Trap Closes
5. Hostages
6. Matthew's Speech
7. Interference
I was one of a small team of composers on this feature-length student film about the reintroduction of conscription in Britain through the lives of ten people in Bristol. Find out a little more here.
I wrote a loooot of music in a rather short space of time! Was a great experience :) Adam, the director, had a very definite style in mind for the music, so working to get the right sound was also very good for me!
Click here for a 6 minute track of excerpts from the entire thing (which was over half an hour of music! ^^;)
Click here to watch the first four minutes of the film including the music :) The Opening cue is nearly 14 minutes, so I haven't posted that here.
Politics II - One of the characters gives a big speech. The idea was to write a balance of BIG for the grand oratory about big global events but keep it from getting overblown as the character in question is only a student addressing a lecture hall. November 2008
Fractures - Appropriately sort of fragmented and unresolving accompaniement for a couple of the most emotional scenes. November 2008
Montage - Busy, almost-happy music for probably the most cheerful sequence in the film. November 2008
Fractures (Old version) - My original idea for this scene... the slowest piano chords in the wooooorld!!!! Possibly quite pointless without the film, but I quite like it... Holy-minimalism-inspired? (It wasn't but it sort of sounds like it was.) November 2008
Ending - The conclusion to all the characters' stories. November 2008
Death - a weird, hollow piano + percussion cue. November 2008
A novel being written by Lily. The pieces here are a mix of the 'old' and 'new' soundtrack as the novel is being rewritten.
Kellen - music for a new character, Kellen. She never talks, instead communicating by writing in a book. This is a kind of meandering, background piece. It also uses different samples which I'm just making my mind up about whether to use in future or not. July 2008
The Last Goodbye / The Rising Day - These two pieces are supposed to run straight into each other, playing during scenes where two main characters say goodbye to their homes, possibly forever. May 2007
Caoliann - Cailee's theme is pretty, wistful, kind of "Hollywood"-y I think... which is not to say that I don't really really like this one :) June 2006
"Father Got The Tickets!" - My first try at happy, bouncy orchestra avec Disney-esque woodwind doodles ^_^ April 2006
Although this game may have ceased development, writing for it was a great experience for me - these are some of my favourite pieces!
Piano Solo - A piano version of the "princess" theme. September 2006
The Princess - The beautiful princess' entrance. September 2006
If I... - Rather inspired by John Williams' Memoirs of a Geisha score, this is a mysterious and angsty opener. August 2006
Duty - Images of anime ninja girls running through the rain... ...is what I'm seeing here!! There's a midi version too, but this is cooler, because it has TIMPANI OF DOOOOM. July 2006
Day Theme - Very light and cheery music for walking around to - inspired by some Chinese 'evergreens' recordings I heard. There's a midi of this too, but again this is better ^^ Christmas 2005
I'm always, always rather iffy about my songs and my singing!! (EDIT: .....which is fair enough as concerns most of the songs here, actually!!!) My favourites so far tend to the be happy ones ranging to the really silly ones :) Or the ones that I didn't write and/or sing!
I Want To Believe (RecurringDream) - This is my arrangement and my singing of a song with lyrics by Tama and the melody by Kairi Li. This is the ending song for a Kingdom Hearts fangame directed by Doomy. Tis piano/strings/vocals and all pretty-like ^^ July 2008
Close To Love - A recording of an older song that took way too long for me to get round too! The lyrics are rather obscure and needlessly negative, as was my wont at the time. September 2007
Not Without - A very very short simple song with 'guitar' accompaniement! Very light and simple music but the lyrics have a bit more substance than usual. August 2007
The Trees - This recording has some issues... but it is really hard to sing!!! A pretty, folky, sad piano+voice number. It's about Aeris... lyrics There is also the original sheet music (pdf format). September 2004 / recording April 2007
Come Away, Death - A song that really needs a rerecord XDD;; The words are from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night... SORT OF. The first verse I changed intentionally, but the rather bizarre change of text in the second verse is just because I had a COPY WITH A WORD MISSING!!! May 2007
A Tale - Another nonsense song!! Wonderfully random lyrics sung as an utterly serious ballad. With backing vocals and everything. March 2007
A Very Busy Hen - Nonsense song XD Very short and rather worriesome, and AMAZING. March 2007 lyrics
Love Song - This is a very very rough recording due to various things, but the song is so so happy, and I really think one of the best things I've written, especially as concerns the piano part. April 2006 lyrics
River Song - Buahaha. The original consequences-style-poem nonsense song. From 2004, but rerecorded 2007. lyrics
I haven't done, or at least finished and recorded, many of these lately, but I used to always be doodling little miniatures on the piano. I seem to be starting to do this again :) I'm not a very technically amazing pianist, so they're never very complicated, but can be quite pretty :)
Impromptu - Goes into a really frilly, expressive right hand part that is marvellously indulgent and fun to play... This was just going back to like I used write when I was twelve --- just like painting something, without worrying about what genre it is or what it could be used for. ♥ *nod* January 2010
ripples/pebbles / sheet music. - What with this and the last one, I seem to have gone back to writing pretty & self-expressive piano stuffs again ^.~ I'm much more articulate with music than words. Alternately, this could play during a rather abstract advert for a very expensive watch or something. Starring Roger Federer. Yes. Sept 2009
Ab - A piece using low notes and starting with a bit of Fauré... Sept 2009
After a Bach Sarabande / sheet music - This is a reconstruction of the Sarabande from Bach's Partita in D, a piece I enjoy playing very much. It's like... you had a couple bars of the original, remembered something of the rest and then made it up as you went along. February 2009
Bananas Available On Request - I wrote this yeeeears ago, and made a very rough, hissy recording which you can hear on the archives page. In July 2008, I made another recording... which is similarly rough and hissy!! Well, it is somewhat better. And there are less mistakes. This is seriously one of my favourite things I've ever written!
Lost Song - a mournfulsome little thing for writeitbaby. Janaury 2007
March 2005 - Half an hour before I was due to play in a concert I decided I might like to play something else, and set about composing this. I didn't actually play it in the concert, but I finished it off the next day, and it's quite nice, and here it is. March 2005...
Mid-air - Romantic and very miniature XD March 2005?
Goodnight - Sweet good night, everyone :) January 2005?
What happens here is I take one piece (from a Final Fantasy game so far ^^) to redo following the model of a another piece (so far film music.) It's like an exercise in orchestration/arrangement/harmony and it's great fun!
Searching For Friends - Searching For Friends from FFVI (Nobuo Uematsu) in the style of What Shall We Die For from PotC3 (Hans Zimmer). Yaaaaay, Pirates-music!! June 2007
Exercise 1 - Town Theme from FFV and Ahead On Our Way from FFVII in the style of Meg's Garden from Hercules (Alan Menken). May 2005
River Walk - I felt like writing another RPG-y theme. SERIOUSLY SOMEONE MAKE A 16bit FFVI STYLE THING FOR IPHONE that would make me so happy. I will write the music for it :)) April 2010
Mereline - Mereline is... a female character in an RPG, I think!!! ^^;;;;; (Isn't that terrible?!) July 2007
Cobble Street Town - a nice town where nothing dangerous is currently happening. Relax and go shopping or something. July 2007
Trumpet Tune - a melody of Great Significance to the Plot.
Be Thou My Vision - a piano doodle. It developed from the start with me moping around being lonely to something more positive (an arrangement of Be Thou My Vision..)
What Colour is This? - I have this called "ff8 style pondering music", which is basically what it is! The midi is quite shiny, with echoes and stuff. March 2007
Sasha - another little character theme. November 2006
Unsure - a slightly uneasy RPG theme. July 2004
Chance - Final Fantasy VII fanmusic - it's based on Interrupted by Fireworks (Nobuo Uematsu), and about Cloud and Yuffie :) August 2003
Crazy Loving You - a midi pop song for the Jellicle girl kittens -- Jem, El, Etcy, Vicky and Rumpelteazer ^^ About Rum Tum Tugger, of course... This is also currently the ringtone on my phone, hehe. lyrics March 2003
The Edge of Feeling - a doodle before my history AS level.
Ache - expressing vagueness and exhaustion.
So Dream - my happy 16th birthday to myself! July 2003
Goblin Song - the song played by some peacable, musical little goblins in a forest. April 2003
Night Theme 1 - February 2006
Day Theme - (see also the mp3 version) December 2005
Duty - angsty theme! (see also the mp3 version) Novemember 2005
Lightened was a wonderful, humourous, conventions-challenging RPG by Darth Mongoose/Kate Holden which unfortunately was never finished. It had some great ideas and characters though, and I think yielded some of my best midis to date! This was also my first (and only, really) try at writing an RPG battle theme, and that one I particularly like ^^
Ah, my made-up RPG. I think every gamer/composer must have had at least one of these? (The "II" might give away the fact that, yes, this was a sequel to another one of mine...)
Many more older pieces from this soundtrack can be found in the archives.
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