Sharing music from WATER MUSIC source to sea with Scottish primary schools has been a major element of our project. Through music we...

This was an interesting project for me, part composition, part field recording. So it was probably the closest combination of my work as...

Paradoxically for a piece about the sea, the first ideas for the ebb came into my mind while I was walking through a forest! But what I...

I was so delighted when Sonia and Alice from Sequoia asked me to write a piece for Water Music source to sea. ‘A sonic imagining of the...

Whale, Bow, Echo for Violin, Cello and Fixed Media, Humpback Whale recorded off Mo’orea 25.09.2019 Whale, Bow, Echo (2021) is the most...

The initial stimulus for this piece occurred when I came across the origins of the River Clyde’s name. It is thought to have derived from...

Between June and September we have had the most enjoyable couple of days working with high school students and exploring gardens. With...

The 1st of June was the grand finale of our TRANSPLANTED project with the children in p. 5 and p.6 at Carntyne Primary School. We spent...

We started work on 9 graphic scores today. Before our young composers put pen to paper we looked at at a beautiful long graphic score...

Another beautiful morning greeted us- we're beginning to think it is always sunny at Carntyne Primary School! The children were as...

Main Aims Continuing on from last week, show how composers can describe the many characteristics of plants Introduce concept of graphic...

The beautiful sunny morning was a great way start to our first session with P6 at Carntyne Primary. As the students entered the room in...

We are taking TRANSPLANTED to a new audience, the music and the wild plants that inspired the project have proven to be a great education...

First published in The Herald on 4 November, 2015 Classical music is generally yonks behind other performance arts when it comes to the...

Cottiers Theatre is what I used to know as Dowanhill Parish Church. It’s one of many imposingly large churches in the West End which,...

I see a lot of the night. I get up early; it’s good to write before the household has woken, though my daughter is yet to fully grasp the...

One performance experience in particular stands out from my time as a student at the (then) RSAMD- playing Claude Vivier's Piece pour...

Preparing to go and workshop some new material with Scottish violin-cello duo High Heels and Horse Hair, the first advice they sent was,...