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Welcome to my little bit of web space. Here you will find music I have written,and played
over the last few years, on a variety of Yamaha keyboards.
At the present time I have a Yamaha Clavinova CVP 405 the best so far. 
Most of the music on here will have been played through this or my previous DGX 620.
I also sometimes use Cakewalk Sona 4, Yamaha XG Works and Audacity software on the PC
for editing, recording and converting to mp3 files.
Also there are a few vocal covers that I have done recently with the CVP. As well as a Special
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Dolphins Where Are You 2 The Remix 2009

One day I was dusting the keyboard and I sat down and played three notes C E G they seemed to say
"Where Are You" as I live in Cornwall my thoughts turned to the Sea and Dolphins.
 I got to thinking that we are all looking for something, or someone, sometime. I tinkered about found a
style that seemed to work got to grips with an early version of Cakewalk and this is what came out.

Since owning the Cvp 405 I felt it would be nice to take advantage of its Voices and Arranger features
to re work this one.
I did not want to loose any of the mood, or my feelings at the time when I done original.
So I have limited myself to adding an extra Pan Pipe track, some choral tracks, re-voicing all tracks to
the Cvp panel voices and completely remixing and balance and pan to blend.
Apart from correcting a few bum notes here and there, the actual composition is basically the same.
Just that this arrangement / mix, is a little more detailed and varied in its construction.
So this is actually version 2 The Re mix.
Music means different things, to different people, to me it is
Dolphins and Whales searching for each other in the bay.

This song is dedicated to my late wife Jan and her love of life.

Journey Through Springtime

This composition is more in truth a compilation of musical phrases and bits of melody that were floating
around in the back of my mind, and seemed to remind me of spring time. And yes I even pinched a few
bars from the classics.
As I said once before music means different thing to different people depending on their experiences in life
and their current state of mind.
To me this is a journey through springtime in woodland. From the first bursting of the buds on the trees,
on through the blossom time, to the final popping up of bluebells in late spring,
and the arrival of our summer birds.
Hope you enjoy my simple music.

Now the technical stuff.
My DGX 620 only had 32 note polyphony so I had to keep this in mind when using pads and
Multi tracking. Apart from which as the keyboard had a very limited 5 track song recorder and did not lend
itself to any serious midi editing I had to do a lot of my work in Cakewalk Sona.
So any extra SF effects etc that your hear were added this way
The final recording is done in Audacity.

Circles In The Corn.

Now For Something Completely Different             
If you ever played in a cornfield as a child you may remember a slightly uneasy feeling although it was fun,
to me there was something a little bit scary, maybe it was just that the corn was so high and we were so
small and shouldn’t have been there anyway.
So based on some of my darker childhood memories and many reports in the press over the years, of
mysterious corn circles that appear over night.  I have tried to put my thoughts into a sort of
musical daydream.
The late afternoon sun glints on the cornfield children dance in circles in the corn until it time to go home
for super.
Birds sing their last evening song and calm settles over the land.
As dusk turns to darkness a new sound comes from the corn, and something or someone else circles the
corn, and dance through the night as if to imitate the children.
Early morning light brings back the birdsong and the cornfield begins to slowly wind its way back to normal.
The children return to dance and sing.  And everything seems the same …. But maybe not quite…
(We are not alone)
Mike

King Arthur The Epilogue

First I apologise to any ardent Rick
Wakeman fans out there.
This is not in any way supposed to be my
version of his work, more a question of
inspired by.
Ever since hearing the album Myths And
Legends of King Arthur by Rick way back in
1975 (I think)
Two melodic phrases have haunted me,
every time I see Tintagle Castle, or walk
below Glastonbury Tower, with the low
mist swirling beneath my feet;
they play back in my brain.

So I post this more as an epilogue to
the story of King Arthur.

The last battle has been fought and King Arthur is dead .The battle field is silent apart from the wind and the rain the soft cry of buzzards overhead.
From the valley below Glastonbury Tower drifts the sound of monks bemoaning Arthur’s fate.
And in the end there is nothing but the wind and a lone church bell.

Techi Stuff
Struggling  once more to stay within the 32 note polyphony of the Dgx 620 not always successful, as at some points polyphony  reaches 64 +
according to my Xg 50 Soft synth. So as a result some sustained notes get cut off earlier than I would have liked.
Multi tracked on the Dgx Internal Sequencer and in Cakewalk Sona to add sound effects etc.
Narration added live in Audacity during final transfer.
May not be every ones cup of tea but it was a ghost that I had to exorcise.

An Invitation For You 

If you are interested in British Wild Flowers You may like to visit My Sister’s Web site  <My Flora Forays> 
Here you will find over 450 British Wild Flowers listed by Common / Latin name with  locations .
 Also over 250 photographs in albums A-Z.  Plus a separate list and Album for British Wild Orchids

<My Flora Forays>