Concentric Run Out Groove [6.5 meg]
First, I recorded 10 minutes of record crackle, loops of record crackle, then a few days later, I recorded a performance of the 4-track tapes to a Minidisc recorder, which was a frantic live performance mixdown. I didn't own any effects at the time, which I think made for a better recording. This piece was made in response to the first time I ever heard Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain", which I saw on "Howard Goodall's Big Bangs" documentary program.
When I heard It's Gonna Rain I felt an amazing excitement, and an amazing release, like I'd found something really big, and that it was going to change my life. I went out and got a Steve Reich CD a few days later, and it began a love of his music that I don't think will ever die. I was privileged to see a performance of his works whilst living in Perth, played by real musicians, on real instruments. It was beautiful to be in the front row before a foot high stage in front of Six Marimbas, all playing in a beautiful phased harmony. Reich's piece was created with loops of tape, played in loops, edited and offset against other versions of the same loop played at different speed and with different edits. A technique Reich christened Phasing Music

Silly Synth Song [1.7 meg]
which later reappeared in HVSC (High Voltage SID Collection, the ultimate archive of Commodore 64 based musics) as a SID file. I did the foundation of the SID file, and Jaymz patched it up a bit, and added the offset harmony, which I think makes the SID file a lot better.

Pulsations [4 meg]
My response to my new found interest in Steve Reich and other serialist composers. I hadn't heard much serialism, but, it turns out, it is an accurate response to the larger body of work. I recorded this on a Sequential Circuits Split-8 which I owned for a while back in Perth, and wish I still had her. You couldn't square-wave LFO the VCA, so, I had to Square LFO the Pulse Width, which goes thin enough to be inaudible with a mid range filter setting. I found the sound, pressed play on the recorder, and laid this down improvised, with no rehersals.

Memories of Perth [8.5 meg MOV]
After I moved back to Bendigo at the end of 2001, I needed to do a cultural purge of my mind. This was the final step in that process. A few years back, I sent this short film and a few others (as well as my music) to Alex Proyas, I got an email back from him telling me he enjoyed them greatly, and he was hoping to work with me on a short film he had coming up. I heard back a few months later, though, he had found someone else to do the music for it. It was nice of him to bother to tell me, I thought.

Mid Period:

Live @ Undue Noise 2 [37 MEG]
My first gig in Bendigo where I kicked much ass and had happen what I'd always wanted -- people didn't really clap at first, they just sat there completely stunned! This night ushered in a new wave of my compositional style, moving from the Avant Garde experimentalism of Concentric Run Our Groove to a pistache style that I was comfortable with for a few years afterwards.

These Little Girls Are Not For Sex [7meg]
The somewhat near to the bone title of this track came from something similar my friend Jaymz said when Hillary Duff came on the TV. I immediately took it to the next level of Pop-Porn, the Olsen Twins. Containling lots of samples from the Olsens, Britney, Christina and Hillary, this is one of the pieces I'm most proud of. It was performed at an Undue Noise quite a while ago, and has been one of the most requested MP3s in my collection. Enjoy!

Sunshine / Just in Case [4.7meg]
This song was so good when we wrote it, it almost burned down Bill's House. True Story.
This is the multitracked FM synths and Shortwave Radio version, with the mistake in it.

Sweet Bells [1.7meg]
My demonstration of the Tx802, attempting to make new-age airy fairy music. Mission: 100% Complete!

To be added to this section:
All my C64 remixes and works from when I used to play at the Vine every week.

Newer Works: