MY COMPOSING LIFE
My composing muse was uncovered after a life review following simultaneous crises in my personal and professional lives in my 40s. I formerly designed computer based information systems, but always had some connection with music making, including choral singing, founding and directing early music groups, playing trumpet, recorders, classical guitar, tuba, more recently percussion, and now clarinet. Familiarity with the viola aids composition for strings, but I do not claim playing facility. My principal performing practice now is improvisation, and from time to time I facilitate improvisation workshops for all comers.
A strong interest in how sound and music is received by body, mind and spirit has lead to investigations in acoustics, physiology and transpersonal psychology. My PhD, from Birmingham Conservatoire, investigating the application of a post-Jungian model of the psyche to creative endeavour, included writing the extended song cycle The Night Sea.
I regard music as essentially an act of friendship. An abiding interest in the musics of India and Indonesia has found some expression in my works.
I have four grown and loved children, and support the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture, and the Samye Ling Holy Island Project. I am a long time appreciator of trees and the under-valued role they play in helping this planet to be livable in.
An interview of me by Christian Bodhi of Ability of Love TV in March 2008 appears on Youtube.
THIS SITE
is focussed on my music, and events and news connected with that endeavour. Information on other aspects of my creative life, and amplifications of musical work, will be found on www.eidos-inventions.co.uk (under construction)