Since the 31st August, I have been hiding away in the Cosy Nook, thanks to being awarded residency time to compose a new work for Quadra Quartet. This time was preceded by a lot of anticipation and excitement, firstly because I have never been given residency time like this before…

Now that the video is publicly available, I wanted to reflect a little bit on my recent work ‘will we…’ written for Georgina Aasgaard, for cello and electronics. The circumstance of the commission was this — something to conclude the two minutes silence on Remembrance Sunday. The performance was to…

2020 has started with a bang, an entire continent on fire, Trump running us into World War III, and Britain has doomed itself to a few more years of Tory rule. The wider socio-political dynamic is remarkable, in a kind of sinister way. …

I had been reflecting on thoughts around the social realism and music. Namely, the history of this movement is distorted heavily by discussions of censorship within the U.S.S.R. or meant with a cynicism implying the movement is just ‘conservative music painted red’. The flaw in both of these approaches is…

While living in Vilnius, I produced a small blog called Baltic Musical Gems where I discussed the music I discovered and heard while living in the Baltic states. Since moving to Glasgow, adding to that particular blog fell by the wayside as I was having to juggle my own attempts…

Today, I took the opportunity to visit a memorial of vital importance. The memorial to the Nazi’s euthanasia programme is important one because it stands on the site where hundreds of thousands of disabled — particularly those who fell under the ‘useless eater category’ — were murdered. Secondly, the memorial’s…

Firstly, apologies for the title but this simple set-up does begin to highlight the problem. With polemics and discussions online becoming more heated, divisive, and purely slanderous, we have all been witness to posts when someone’s statement/comment was shouted down for being a ‘retarded’ opinion. …

I have been on fluoxetine since March. Growing up I was always aware of various medications, mostly due to my Mam’s immuno-suppressants, as well as my Grandma needing the various medication she needed. Until March, beyond medicine to deal with a cold/flu, I had never had any need for medication…

After spending an extremely positive time in Sheffield recording with the Ligeti Quartet, I had the joys of an eight hour bus journey back to Glasgow, and during it I had the chance to just listen to music. It has been a while since I was in a position where…