Bocmusic
A little online space where you can hear some of my musical excursions. Ambient, electronic and often experimental.
Links take you to my work on Bandcamp. This allows you a few listens to each track without payment or subscription. And the quality is good too. My work can also be found on the usual culprits. Spotify. YouTube Music. Apple and the rest.
Latest releases will usually be here on the Home page. In fact…
Lower than the Angels
I was watching a documentary on the life and demise of Anne Boleyn. The execution scene was artfully filmed, a slow-motion walk from her room to the scaffold. But the music behind the commentary was wrong. It didn’t complement the mood created by the images.
This track is my experiment with voices and a subtle Mellotron, inspired by that documentary scene.
The title comes from the opening episode of Jacob Bronowski’s TV epic, The Ascent of Man. It fits beautifully.
The Singing Stones
The Duddo Stones are an impressive, Neolithic circle in north Northumberland.
Another local name for the circle is The Singing Stones. This name could have something to do with an unusual aspect of the stones. They are all very weathered with striking, almost vertical, deep grooves running down them.
It has been suggested that the Northumbrian wind blowing past the stones may have, at some point, resonated through the grooves creating a musical sound.
A longer-form ambient piece blending layers of controlled feedback with electronics.
Semi-Modular Jam - 1992
As the name suggests, this experimental jam session was recorded back in 1992 as I wrestled with integrating some new digital components with my analogue gear and Microcomposers.
Things that seemed impossible to get to work together finally did thanks to a bit of soldering and some tricky coding on an Atari ST computer.