Peter james's Blog (10)

..after some deliberation i've added the track "infinite pulse". this piece is one of 3 that i was asked to compose to accompany a home water birthing. the pieces i did were only written after consultations with the expectant mother (and father). the 3 pieces were played all day, throughout the labour, on rotation, and the baby, molly rose, was born peacefully, without tears or screams (from the mother or baby), without the need for intervention by the midwife or attending nurse, delivered by he… Continue

just for fun, i've uploaded a track i did today (05/08/2009), which was written for a friend of mine to put on their i-pod to accompany them whilst out jogging. of course they have many other tracks on the i-pod, not just this one, that would be insanity, obviously ;-) it's not my normal thing at all, and probably 7 and a half mins too long ;-) i had fun doing it though, and that's the main thing. i'll probably remove it in a day or so.. cheers pj. Continue

...i've posted 3 tracks, which i did back in february of 2008. 2 of which i don't really remember doing. they are all unfinished, rough mixes, warts and all :- "closure" features some vocal samples from the voice track Saskia Dommisse sent me for "not lost - forgotten". "after thought" is kind of the progenitor for the track "precognition", and a much more "ambient", or softer, less brutal mix of "do loop". there are other tracks which didn't make the cut for "is", or were being developed around… Continue

- hmm.. i've posted a really old piece of mine - arcadia - recorded in 2000. it was at a time when i was doing very repetetive and long pieces (this is an 8 minute edit - the full thing runs to a mind-numbing (but that was the idea) 74 minutes.). it was primarily designed as a "sleep" piece, with the main repetitions of bog standard off-the-shelf bird song samples, and, yes, a couple of Synth sounds (wash my mouth out!) based around my own breathing and resting heart rate patterns - a formula i… Continue

i've added A Prayer For Living Beings. it's a collaboration i did with a poet from estonia (eastern europe) called ellom, whom i "met" via my myspace page. it was recorded a few months ago. it's probably, along with the other poetry piece i did for Sounds In Bloom, the most pure ambient track i'd done in a long long time. Dean Richards recorded the tibetan bowl samples for me in florida, - hence the birds singing in the background - and i edited them down here in the uk .. hope a few of you here… Continue

i've posted a couple of tracks from what will hopefully be my next offering, which is called "is". i know a few people on here have heard the whole thing, so these 2 tracks "torn" and "premonition", are a small way of introducing those that haven't heard any of it at all to the tone of the album..artwork is on it's way soon. Continue

"take it all" is a track by my band Soviet Dynamo. even though we write "normal" guitar based songs, the ambient element also plays a fairly large part in what we do. plus we like to keep people guessing as to what we'll be doing next. this track is made from 3 slide guitar samples, and a bass string "scrape". you can find more of what we do here: www.myspace.com/sovietdynamo cheers. pj. Continue

the piece i've uploaded called Naked Moon is a collaboration between myself (i composed the music and did the mix, Norma recited the poem) and Sounds In Bloom, ( http://www.myspace.com/dnorma ) a music and poetry collective based in the USA. it'll be getting a public airing at an art gallery in cambridge MA on friday 16th may. cheers. pj. Continue

a couple of months ago i was asked if i'd donate some music to a young guy from canada's film project, now entitled "Nipiwin". i was more than happy to do so, as i was asked with a great deal of politeness, and they have communicated with me on a great level all the way through.. so.. it was finished last week and is now posted, in 3 parts, on youtube.. here, as they say, is the link to it. http://youtube.com/user/RubenteDextera i'll say it here too, even though i've added a comment to this po… Continue

the track i've posted is an unfinished piece, called "stranger". if you've heard the track "stronger" on my myspace page (www.myspace.com/2still), you'll notice a slight similarity - but this is the full un-edited bass part, with added bass guitar samples and piano work. it's pretty rough around the edges, and - if all works out - there may be some vocals added.. fingers crossed - but not by me! i won't be posting this version anywhere else, so this is completely exclusive to this site... i hope… Continue