Author: Mork

My Peace For Your Chaos (2024)

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Started in December 2024.  Once again, I spent a few months getting a new Logic template put together, and this is also my first set of recordings moving to Neural DSP's set of quite frankly astounding plugins (so no more DI'd Amp or stock plugins from Apple).  Given how my previous set...

When You Can’t Hide Anymore (2022)

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Started in October 2022, as I prepare to take 2 months out of work.....thought it's about time I got the old fingers moving again and tried to record some new music.  This took a few years in total, as once I got working again.....well, simply wasn't the time.  In fact, finally really got...

About Mark

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This site is used to host music that I write, perform and record purely for my own enjoyment. The music is free to listen and download, and I am always interested in collaborations with other performers, the products of which are also shared here. This is in no way meant to be...

Lockdown (EP)

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Lockdown was a small collection of songs I managed to put together during that insanely odd and exceptional time we all lived through in 2020. I started out with the intent of a full ten song collection, but it never really happened. I quite like the three songs (the title track of course, ended...

The Blowhard

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I won't attribute this to anyone. Sign of the times. My latest practise session becomes a piece. Enjoy. The Blowhard

These Four Walls

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Lockdown is my 22nd collection of Songs in roughly 15 years (with a few of the earlier songs written as early as 1994). I've really slowed down in recent years, work, love, life etc. However, times are strange and that's stimulated me spending a fair bit more time with Logic. As with so many of my...

Lockdown

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You thought this blog was dead! I thought so too. In fact, when I finally found need to come back and update it, I found it had been down for 6 months with a dead database and no backups.... :----) So, Lockdown. We're in it, and I'm bored. Still, with so much time on my hands, I have found the...

Read Through To The End

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One of the reasons for a protracted delay was much life circumstances change....moved home, changed jobs, lots of other cool things going on. Less cool was hard-drive crash and a loss of lots of stuff. Backup turned out to be corrupt, etc/etc/etc. Actual hardest loss was my Logic Pro setup, which...

Inside The Outside

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Something new.  Rockier sounding Rythmn guitars (I hope).  Experimented with lots of other soundboards, but in, it was 99% the same because I couldnt get it to sound as good I think this does.  Enjoy.

Inside the Outside

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Inside the Outside was started in Summer 2017, but dragged on for few years.  Call it 'musicians block' but life did take a few more curve balls, and actually, i was out enjoying it a lot more. In Spring 2020, I decided with 'Lockdown' to end this collection - my sound's moved on, my style...

Me Too

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Something new     I've also added two more songs to this Album, but missed posting them up for some reason.  Make sure to check them out on the album page itself:  

Purged

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  Something new.  Much fun. Changed setup almost entirely, so its got quite a new sound.   Will blog on the gear change later. 04 Purged.mp3 Enjoy!  

Jumpstart

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Something new - got a bit carried away.  S was away, so I spent most of the weekend mucking about with it.  The tempo and some complex changes seem to cause some screw up in Logic that i couldn't quite fix or understand, and i hear a slight warble in the playback - in end was late, and I gave up...

Haunted

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This is track number 1 - Haunted.  Very pleased with how this came out, though I seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time mixing to get the right balance between the clean electric and the lead guitar riffs when they kick in.  Problem is depending on how or where i listen to it, it sounds...

Haunted

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Haunted was the longest I have taken to complete a set of songs to date - lots of changes and other interesting things going on in life, let this take more time and be more relaxed.  Some cool tracks on here, and some others not so hot - and I was never quite happy with the sound I was getting...

Me@Open Telekom Cloud

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I've now moved my own personal website (where I host music i make in my own time purely for fun) off Amazon Web Services (AWS) onto OTC ("Open Telekom Cloud") - which is a new public cloud offering from my employers, T-Systems/Deutche Telekom.  As this service only launched this week, I thought it...

Healing Time

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So song number 2....   This started with a very modern Joe Satriani riff....that quickly evolved.  In the end i could have cut the original idea out as i wasn't sure its bluesy style really fitted where the rest went - the time signatures don't meld that well.  Still, it is what it is and it...

Need Inspiration

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Need some serious inspiration to get going on another set of songs. I am well aware that I haven't got a hugely distinctive sound in a while. All you iCompositioners who give me such great feedback, anyone interested in a collaboration to find a new sound and do something different.

Logic Remote

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Just installed the Logic Remote app which Apple released for free on IOS - very cool :) I now have a mobile mixing desk as well as my old Behringer.  Actually, its really far more helpful/useful than you may think, if your a Logic man (or woman), check it out.  

AWS

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This site has now moved onto Amazon's Web Services (AWS), the public cloud service provided by Amazon. For those technical, very clever service - would imagine the website will run significantly faster, more securely and allow far more download bandwidth than I could deliver on a cable modem and...

Take What You Need

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This collection of songs started into 2015, following a 6 month hiatus, and took over 12 months to complete, which is unusually long (considering I usually do two sets of 10 a year).  "Take What You Need" was created during a fairly miserable point during huge change and upheaval in my personal...

The Last In Line

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Randomly just came across this song on YouTube, probably first time I've listened to it in 20 years - loved this as a teenager, just had to cover it :) Will no nicely as the one cover out of the 10 for Night and Day.  Enjoy.

Passing On Something Special (Track)

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My father past away on December 3rd 2014.   It's just for my own memory, but I dedicate this song to him.   The idea was originally about something else, but all I thought of whilst working on this was him.  He always encouraged my interest in music and was quite pleased I never gave it up even...

Night and Day

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"Night and Day" is a new collection of songs started in December 2014.  Though I am just starting out, I am keen to do something harder and a bit rockier than some of the melancholic sounds of the past few songs - more upbeat and maybe even simpler constructions.  At least, that's what...