Author Archives: Guy

Railways and Reading

Posted on 7 April, 2013

Since starting a job in Leicester six months ago, I’ve been travelling to work by rail. On the return journey, the railway follows the river Soar going North out of Leicester all the way up to Ratcliffe, then takes a … Continue reading →

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Three Minutes and Thirty Three(-ish) Seconds

Posted on 4 March, 2013

Le Berger (Sam Landry from Montreal, Canada) has put out an album of drone music by various artists – 3m33s, in which one track was released per day between 30th January and 3rd March. Guidelines for submitting tracks specified a … Continue reading →

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Remembering and Reworking

Posted on 12 December, 2012

My Memory Collective is a project by musician, poet and label-owner Leonardo Rosado which invites others to share in the creation of a new album. The project uses the track Fragments of an Absent Summer as the stimulus to evoke … Continue reading →

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SEQUENCE5 with Sun Hammer

Posted on 25 November, 2012

With another call out for submissions from Futuresequence, and having already had tracks included on SEQUENCE2 and SEQUENCE4, I’d decided not to submit a piece for the latest compilation.  But a collaborative project with Sun Hammer (Jay Bodley) had recently … Continue reading →

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Experiment in Synchresis

Posted on 13 October, 2012

An animation of mine is to be screened this week at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, 15-19 October 2012. The exhibition, Chromista (named after photosynthetic aquatic microorganisms), is curated by Geoff Litherland and Jim Boxall, and focuses on video works that … Continue reading →

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From T to Tree II

Posted on 12 September, 2012

Whilst I had every intention of being more active on this blog, it just hasn’t happened, but that’s mainly because things have been so very busy. Apart from starting a new job, there are lots of projects in the pipeline … Continue reading →

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SEQUENCE4 + Ptinid 3

Posted on 28 June, 2012

I’m very pleased to have a track included on SEQUENCE4, the fourth compilation of experimental ambient, drone, minimal, electronic and modern classical music put together by Ed Hamilton and Michael Waring, and released via the Futuresequence label. The track, Ptinid … Continue reading →

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Three Stages of Life

Posted on 21 March, 2012

To a friend who has not been very well recently I sent links to some videos to cheer her up. She said that they had made her “smile and cry”, and it got me thinking about those things that are … Continue reading →

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From 2011 to 2012

Posted on 23 January, 2012

January is named after Janus, the Roman god of gateways who represents transitions or beginnings and endings. His two faces look simultaneously forward to the future and back to the past. Similarly, January is a time for reflection and planning, … Continue reading →

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Programming Arvo Pärt

Posted on 11 November, 2011

Tintinnabuli Mathematica is an experiment in programming Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabuli method of composition. The process has two stages. Firstly, a melody (or M-voice) is created by generating a string of notes and timings. Then harmonic tintinnabuli parts (T-voices) are generated … Continue reading →

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