Composer & Guitarist
Honestly, this wasn't a new year's resolution! Whilst working on my yearly update of the website over the past day or two, I impulsively decided to start writing on my blog again - not because I think anyone is particularly hankering to see it return, but because in a strange, journaling kind of way it …
Continue reading "Return of the Blog and a 2022 retrospective"
Excellent UK music software company Spitfire Audio recently hosted a competition for composers to score a short NASA film using only the free version of their LABS Choir (a series of free virtual instruments I reviewed not too long ago - spoiler: they're really good). I only discovered the competition a couple of days before …
Continue reading "I won the LABS X Eric Whitacre competition!"
Take a look at the website for a new film from Director/Writer Ryan Garry, currently being shot around Merseyside and the Wirral. This indie feature takes inspiration from big budget legends like The Lord of the Rings and the Marvel Cinematic universe, and has set its own production sights just as high with custom made …
Continue reading "Working on upcoming action/fantasy feature ‘Anghenfil’"
I'm currently in the midst of one of those frustrating but exciting passages of time - one in which lots has been happening but it's not yet all ready for presentation - and my knack for taking on more projects than is wise reaches critical mass as summer arrives, and my music students go on …
Following on from the successful performances in Liverpool and London for the Being Human Festival 2016, the Liverpool Players have been invited to return to the capital and show their live storytelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic once again. This time it will be courtesy of the esteemed and historic British Academy at their Literature Week 2017, …
Continue reading "The Little Mermaid at the British Academy Literature Week"
Earlier this year I worked with The Liverpool Players and storyteller Madelaine Smart to create music for their live performance of The Little Mermaid - you can read a bit more about it in my 2016 roundup. We had several great performances at the Being Human Festival launch (for which the show was originally commissioned) …
After the initial release of logic puzzle game Patterna (now available on Steam, in case I haven't pointed that out enough times yet) developer Sebastian Schoener had me write a couple of extra pieces for the soundtrack, both of which were added in a recent December update. If you own the game they'll be added …
I'm back! Though in truth I've never really been away. It's just that proceedings have been disorderly over the past few months because I've had limited access to the internet (until now, hooray!) and that's mostly due to the process of moving house - an arduous affair that had me in limbo far longer than I expected. So here's …
Huge congratulations are due to developer Sebastian Schoener as his game finally lands on Steam, featuring music from yours truly. At the time of writing it's on sale for about £4 so I urge you to pick it up and support all his hard work. Find it by visiting the store page or searching for Patterna on …
A short while ago I teamed up with programmer Sebastian Schoener to create some music and sound for his new game Patterna, and with its release last week, I wanted to document some of the thoughts and processes that went into creating it. Sebastian and I first met when we were both working on the popular Company …
Continue reading "Puzzles in space – on creating the Patterna soundtrack"
Alex Cottrell 