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Category: music

I love listening, playing and composing music.

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My interests in music are broad, ranging from classical, jazz, contemporary to modern. My favourite composer of all time is probably Johann Sebastian Bach, but I also like many of the other classical composers. I listen to mostly Puccini and Wagner operas. In terms of jazz, I love Pat Metheny and Keith Jarrett. I also love electronic music, particularly Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre. My favourite minimalist composers are Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams. I listen to range of modern artists including Mike Oldfield, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Phil Collins. I also like playing the piano and guitar, and composing music, which I do in my own studio complete with mixing and monitoring consoles, digital audio workstation, and various instruments including a stage piano. I am also obsessed with synthesizers ever since I heard the music of Vangelis on the Cosmos TV series. I currently own a Kawai stage piano, several MIDI controllers (NI Komplete Kontrol A25 and S88MkII) and Maschine 3. I also own various virtual instruments (NI Komplete Ultimate, EastWest, SonicCouture, Sonokinetic, Korg, Roland, UVI). My favourite notation software are Notion and Finale, and I use Logic Pro X as my DAW.

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Cleaning LPs

Bought a stack of LPs from Newtown

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La Boheme

Opera Australia production at the refurbished Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Opera House.

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Technics SL1200 Mk 7

50th anniversary limited edition version of this iconic turntable

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Chicago 18

Found a Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) pressing

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Carpenters

Classic Carpenters self titled album

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Dream

Musical dream

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Cinema Paradiso (string Orchestra)

In memory of Ennio Morricone, a string orchestra arrangement of Cinema Paradiso, transcribed by me into Finale.

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Winter Music (electronic 115bpm)

My first project in Maschine 3 - a dance arrangement of Roger Eno's track from Between Tides album.

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A Twin Peaks dream

Inspired by watching Twin Peaks The Return, here is a short electronic track, done in Logic Pro X and Native Instruments Komplete 11.

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500 Miles High

This is my arrangement of Chick Corea's beautiful song for string quartet.

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Memories of Tomorrow

This my attempt at jazz arrangement and improvisation, inspired by an assignment from Gary Burton's Jazz Improvisation course at Coursera.

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Ave Maria (Vavilov) – Finale/GPO4

This is my attempt at transcribing and arranging one of the most beautiful melodies I have heard.

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Babylon 5 opening theme

Original MIDI file downloaded from Chris Franke web site, reorchestrated using EWQL Gold and Logic Pro X.