Time to start again

After Covid hit, I took a step back from writing music. I had accumulated piles of pieces - many published, loads not - and I felt it was a good time to re-evaluate my work and concentrate on making available my catalogue.

It was a fairly brutal process. Some pieces got put aside for publishing, and others got binned. I spent a lot of time agonising over how to ‘erase’ them. Do you do it permanently or keep a backup copy - just in case you change your mind? I decided this was a one-way process and deleted the files, although I have kept many hand-written ideas - just in case!

Having got through Covid lockdowns and the loss of much of my work, I was in the process of re-establishing my music writing when I had a cardiac arrest that left me in a coma. In the following months of recovery I watched as much of my work disappeared, which was frustrating. I was in the middle of a major course rewrite for the Royal Air Force (I teach Harmony and Composition there) and I will be forever grateful that they put the process on hold while I recoverd.

Fast forward to today, and I guess I feel I am in a position to make some progress now. I have recently delivered a new piece (more of that another time) and have finalised print versions of a number of works that I will start to make available once I have arranged / secured performances (If I can)! Having pieces is one thing but without live recordings, I think you have very little chance of persuading people to look at them, never mind actually programme them.

Anyway - Here we go…