Creativity in the Air
This blog explores how music's creative principles and practices can be applied to everyday life and work.
Friday, 21 March 2025
Mae'r Mari Lwyd Yn Curo (A Symphonic Poem for Orchestra)
Saturday, 22 February 2025
Monday, 2 September 2024
Ka Wahine `Ai Honua
I hear your prayer:
Stand! Breath! Listen!
(Please take a look at the score as it contains vocal effects that are not possible to replicate in a demo recording.)
Hear me night march down the mountain towards you;
See me flame trees to light my way.
Feel my smouldering song flame within your ears;
Feel the scorching as I kiss your bare feet;
Feel the blistering heat of my bright hot deadly body;
Feel me pour in and burn away your heart.
Comer, come, come:
I lift you from the drift of time;
You catch fire and I burn away your soul;
I breath in the smoke from the embers of your dying.
Amama ua noa:
Your prayer is done.
Saturday, 8 June 2024
How "Anicca: An Adagio for Orchestra" was created
Watch this video to hear how my latest orchestral work was created and the insights I gained from the process:
Here is the piano improvisation that was the starting point for the orchestral piece:
Here is a demo recording of the orchestral piece:
Anicca: An Adagio for Orchestra - Recording
Here is the orchestral score:
Anicca: An Adagio for Orchestra: Score
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Anicca: An Adagio for Orchestra
Within a petal's fall is a whispered refrain:
Friday, 10 May 2024
World premiere of 'Flying to Venus'
St Alban's Concert Band Cardiff is working hard on its next concert programme.
The concert will take place on Saturday 20th July at Ararat Baptist Church & Centre for the Community, Whitchurch, Cardiff.
The concert theme is 'Space and Beyond' and the band will be celebrating the anniversary of the Apollo moon landing by performing a great selection of space inspired pieces.
The selection will include the world premiere of Flying to Venus, a piece written for the band by Composer Charles M Lines.
The band also has a very special surprise up its sleeve... so go along to find out what it is.
Tickets are available at the Ark Cafe, Ararat Baptist Church.
(A limited number of tickets will also be available at the door).
Don't hesitate: go where no concert band or audience has gone before!
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Echoes of an Irish Epitaph
Loss leaves heartaches no one can heal.
Love leaves memories no one can steal:
Comforting echoes of echoes of echoes...
I see your outline upon the hard rocky shore,
Before the waves roll in, roll in...
I see your shadow beneath the cold silver moon,
Before the clouds glide in, glide in...
Now I keep you safe in my warm memories:
Within, within, within...
Comforting echoes of echoes of echoes...
Loss leaves heartaches no one can heal;
Love leaves memories no one can steal.