Composer & Guitarist
In the past few months I've had a handful of people contact me asking where they can download the 'Pure Psaltery' sample library I released back in 2016. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or there's a genuine dearth of psaltery samples out there, but I realised that the link on my Bandcamp no …
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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 …
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Have a listen to my latest track 'Omni', created using Spitfire's new LABS range of virtual instruments. I think it's both inspiring and very generous of Spitfire to release these high quality tools for free and I've written an appraisal of the instruments I used in this track below. It can be expensive business this …
I took a very pleasant trip to Bury Art Museum on Thursday with a good friend of mine, where I performed Brébeuf once more - my live psaltery score to Stephen Broomer's short film for Video Jam. I'll admit that, when I first wrote the score, I felt strangely detached from it and took great …
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Alex Cottrell 