Bio
Several people have asked me about my musical background, so here goes...
I was talent spotted by my parents when I was about 9 years old playing the dining room
table.
Seeing the potential, they bought me a table of my very own. Due to lack of decent sound and the simple fact it was just a table, I was treated to a very dodgy old Casio keyboard which I remember had a great bosanova rhythm on it. Next was a Yamaha, this i used to record very simple tracks on tapes when I was at secondary (high) school.
Then, when I was 20 years old, my Grandmother passed away leaving me a small amount of cash. With this I bought a Roland U-220, an MC-500 and an A-30 keyboard. This keyboard cost £150 and is still the only keyboard I possess to this day and have used it for all the tracks on Fuzz.
I composed only 2 songs over the next 6 years. Amateurish plinky plonky piano with synth strings. "hmm nice" I hear you say...
These are now uploaded and can be found in the album section. (Well they would be, however it keeps telling me that my MP3 and WAV versions of the tracks are unsupported...)
When I was 26 I got married realised I was rubbish and all the equipment went in the loft.
There it all stayed until my divorce.
When I remarried I bought some simple sequencing software and other bits and bobs.
I finally started composing in my 33rd year, in November 2007, 'The Cruel Sea' which is actually a rip off of one of the 2 plinky plonky ones I composed when I was 20.
So there you are... Everything on Fuzz has been composed in the last 6 months, with nothing of any significance preceding it.
Oh, and I almost forgot... I mimed in a band once! (well, twice actually!)
I have never had formal training and never learned to read music, which is a shame as I am now struggling to learn 'Sausage in a pan'.
I have always had a passion for movie music (Badelt, Williams, Silvestri) and I think this shows in my compositions.
The people on Fuzz including Clif, TCC, Jostel, Armen and Beradley have really inspired me to continue in making music and I thank you all so much for the kind comments which continue to come my way.
Oh, and if you're under 30 and were wondering what an MC-500 looks like, click on this link!
http://www.durftal.com/music/edmx/dmxstudio/mc500.htm
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Below is a selection of clips with my music...
An idea inspired by M.Mehdi Karimi
An alternate soundtrack for 'The Mummy'
My take on 'Mongol'
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I was talent spotted by my parents when I was about 9 years old playing the dining room
table.
Seeing the potential, they bought me a table of my very own. Due to lack of decent sound and the simple fact it was just a table, I was treated to a very dodgy old Casio keyboard which I remember had a great bosanova rhythm on it. Next was a Yamaha, this i used to record very simple tracks on tapes when I was at secondary (high) school.
Then, when I was 20 years old, my Grandmother passed away leaving me a small amount of cash. With this I bought a Roland U-220, an MC-500 and an A-30 keyboard. This keyboard cost £150 and is still the only keyboard I possess to this day and have used it for all the tracks on Fuzz.
I composed only 2 songs over the next 6 years. Amateurish plinky plonky piano with synth strings. "hmm nice" I hear you say...
These are now uploaded and can be found in the album section. (Well they would be, however it keeps telling me that my MP3 and WAV versions of the tracks are unsupported...)
When I was 26 I got married realised I was rubbish and all the equipment went in the loft.
There it all stayed until my divorce.
When I remarried I bought some simple sequencing software and other bits and bobs.
I finally started composing in my 33rd year, in November 2007, 'The Cruel Sea' which is actually a rip off of one of the 2 plinky plonky ones I composed when I was 20.
So there you are... Everything on Fuzz has been composed in the last 6 months, with nothing of any significance preceding it.
Oh, and I almost forgot... I mimed in a band once! (well, twice actually!)
I have never had formal training and never learned to read music, which is a shame as I am now struggling to learn 'Sausage in a pan'.
I have always had a passion for movie music (Badelt, Williams, Silvestri) and I think this shows in my compositions.
The people on Fuzz including Clif, TCC, Jostel, Armen and Beradley have really inspired me to continue in making music and I thank you all so much for the kind comments which continue to come my way.
Oh, and if you're under 30 and were wondering what an MC-500 looks like, click on this link!
http://www.durftal.com/music/edmx/dmxstudio/mc500.htm
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Below is a selection of clips with my music...
An idea inspired by M.Mehdi Karimi
An alternate soundtrack for 'The Mummy'
My take on 'Mongol'
Create your own visitor map!
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Now Clif has departed there is a big hole where the Fuzzpile used to be.
Here is the first of the new lineups.
As before, please visit as many as you can and leave constructive comments and/or 'here from Fuzzpile II'
1,The Liars Club
2,The Red Cow Society
3,Reezyree
4,Girth
5,Giovanna Gattuso
This is my first try and in the absence of many suggestions I hope you like them!
Back in May TCC was my 1000th listener.
Who will be my 2000th?
Let me know who you are.......
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I will be back to listen to the rest. Really enjoyed The Morning of Surrender!
You've got a good feel for the kind of dramatic atmosphere required in a lot of film music, and you develop your pieces in ways that keep them listenable without distracting from the mood. There's coherence in your work. The film idea has clearly been a good way in to composing for you. It sounds to me like you're ready to stretch out a bit. I'd like to hear you try something at a crisper tempo, for instance.
It can also be good to give yourself some semi-arbitrary rule to force yourself in a new direction. It can be as simple as deciding to use a diminished chord somewhere in the piece. Or setting an arbitrary running time (make a 90 second miniature that doesn't sound like a TV jingle). Little challenges like that can work wonders.
Keep up the good work.
Well done!