Will Ackerman, Tori Amos, Darren Aronofsky, Peter Brook, Robert Bruce, Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Camille Claudel, Leonardo da Vinci, Robertson Davies, Dead Can Dance, Claude Debussy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, early Genesis, Lisa Gerrard, Andy Goldsworthy, Michael Haneke, Michael Hedges, Gustav Holst, Victor Hugo, David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir, Henrik Ibsen, Witi Ihimaera, Eugène Ionesco, Jack or Jive, Yasunari Kawabata, Michael Manring, Loreena McKennitt, Yukio Mishima, Claude Monet, Modest Mussorgsky, Christopher Nolan, Carl Orff, Arvo Pärt, Harry Partch, Jeff Pearce, Neil Peart, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninov, John Renbourn, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Erik Rohmer, Sequentia, Peter Shaffer, William Shakespeare, Sam Shepard, Tingstad & Rumbel, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jan Vermeer, vidnaObmana, Frank Lloyd Wright, Banana Yoshimoto, Franco Zeffirelli
So this is what he has come to… the music of eyes cast down is distilled from a lifetime’s sundry artistic and creative reflexes.
Youthful performance anxieties involved high school theatre (drama and musical), sketch comedy (Monty Python) and a stint as a rock drummer (playing a bunch of great Rush songs).
Two decades of literary ambitions didn't finish much, apart from two plays (self-published) and a three-year intensity of free-form, image-saturated, stream-of-consciousness poems (some published) - all in the early 1990s.
Moving into something resembling responsible adulthood and family life still allowed time for an acoustic guitar/vocal trio, and eventually the Siren sang: the call to composition became clear.
A watershed event was the 1997 workshop Music for the Masses, presented by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. It was a chance to consult with a composer (Martin van de Ven) and have an original short piece recorded by TSO musicians. GM still has the cassette of his 3-minute Trio Galactique.
The other watershed event was tripping over the world of serious ambience, just after the millennium turned. Steve Roach - whose website is an entry portal to that rich musical universe - was the first discovery.
It didn’t take long for this new-fangled ambient sound to become the focus of GM’s compositional fury, although an informal, largely acoustic guitar-based project – working with a few friends – still gets its share of attention. These two musical worlds are beginning to overlap, as will be heard soon in a new ambient-acoustic side project.
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Hiya. :) It's NuM again with a new creation... The track's called Skeptical and recreates the reflexions of many in regard to religions nowadays. Please listen and enjoy, and if you have some time tell me what do you think about it. Comments are greatly appreciated.
I appreciate you commenting on my recently posted songs, thanks for the compliments. These are songs from my 2005 and 2004 releases. I'm really looking forward to recording my new CD this year.
Hi!Your music has impressed me. Such quiet :) Glad that you my friend! Thanks for support! Have a brilliant days! Keep in contact. Good luck and happy!!!
many thanks greg. so glad you liked the new works, and it's always a pleasure to listen in here for a while, and take a much needed moment. cheers. peter
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