Music

I've been writing music since I was about 15, and have accumulated quite a number of manuscript notebooks filled with pieces and even more fragments of pieces. Along the way I have occasionally taken a stab at trying to do something with them and make some kind of name for myself, though entirely without success.

What kind of music do I write? I have no idea. Or rather, I know what I write, but I don't know how to describe it or categorise it. I suppose it falls (very loosely) under the rather wide blanket of 'light music'. At one point, and indeed for quite a long time, I wanted to write musicals (almost the epitome of light music), but I never found a lyricist that I was happy with.

I am now gradually working through all of my music, tidying the scores for them, and often creating new scores where the originals only exist as MIDI files or even handwritten scores. At the same time I am generating audio files of the music, and publishing (if that is the word I am looking for) them on this site. I am constantly tweaking these, so you shouldn't assume that any of them are 'finished'.

I currently (as of 2026) use Dorico to create the scores, and Reaper 7 to create the audio files. I have also experimented with using Ace Studio AI to 'sing' some vocal tracks.

Last, but by no means least, I have one actual published work -- the script and score of a miniature musical version of A Christmas Carol, now available from Lulu.com.

The rest of this area of the site is basically divided into two -- finished and unfinished works. Unfinished works can clearly be expected to change as I work on them!