Odd hobbies?

Marketing Direct are running a piece about people in the industry with unusual hobbies - so our PR agency suggested I submitted a piece. It seems that writing some music at home is unusual in the direct marketing industry. I wonder what a normal hobby is for people who read Marketing Direct?

Appreciating new things...

I was putting together a nice film on the sorts of things that people take time out to appreciate in life. 'Personal Appreciation' being a comms platform that we're working towards for a client brief.

We filmed a bunch of people around the agency chatting away about their passions... including Mr. Hancock and his love of vox amps.....

I was kind of inspired after editing the film (& maybe hearing Mark go on about getting particular sounds), so thought I'd write a new piece to go with it. Bit of a change of direction - got loads of orchestral sounds... violin, cello, trombone, brass section, timpani. Had quite a lot of fun remembering my cadences and key signatures from studying music structure and composition.

I couldn't stay completely with the classical style. Notice that I sneaked in a classic dub bassline in there. Soundclash is sooo easy...

As usual, the finished piece is uploaded on the website here.