Cornutopia Music

About this album

Soundscapes, sound poems, tone poems, ekphrastic music; however you want to describe the music here, it is, of all things, creative, imaginative, eclectic.

Many of the works here were created to a theme for ArtsLab, an arts radio programme for RedShift Radio, which I produced and presented. Throughout 2017, each episode consisted wholly of new material which was created and sent into the programme each week by a small band of dedicated artists and listeners. This format demanded forty minutes or so of new work each week, and became a spark for creativity that exploded into all sorts of interesting directions.

The music here varies, from spoken vignettes with sound, like poems or dramas where sound effects or music plays a part. Some pieces are simple solo piano in an abstract-expressionist form, akin to the works of Satie. Some tracks are songs, or involve words spoken or partly droned over a musical backdrop, like Scott Walker's avant-garde works.