Welcome to my personal music laboratory. Turbulator is my current band name. Cordelia Records have published two of my Frank Zappa related covers. I use YouTube to post demos and hints of what is to come. Perfect Time and Vehicle are historical projects.
My new band concept. This is what I'm currently working on, having decided to go full time in April 2018. For quite a while, there has been no particular long term focus, with the motto "Anything goes!". I've been on a very busy and steep learning curve with my studio and expanded set of performing instruments. Inspiration has been kept flowing, by moving from one instrument to the other, sampling sounds, creating a new piece, agonising over an arrangement, or producing a completed track, as the mood took me, guaranteeing I was putting the hours in to make overall progress. Even writing about it on this site helps me get inside of what I'm doing and also moves it forward. But now, it's all about completing my first album, as discussed on the home page and in this section.
I have contributed tracks to two Cordelia Records albums, Zappa related compilations curated by Andrew Greenaway, aka The Idiot Bastard.
Organised links to videos on my YouTube channel, which is an historical record of my progress since 2010 and the page also serves as a brief intro to various aspects of my music.
I had a run in with some guy on the Zappa forum a few years back, who is a graduate in piano performance from some fancy music institution in The Netherlands, who referred to me as a dilettante, which means "a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge". This was obviously intended as an insult, while knowing very little about me. This section lists the essential detail of my, mostly self taught, life long pursuit of the composition of music and clarifies my serious level of commitment.
Discussion and analysis of some of my compositions.
Explanations and discussion of my use of notation and discussion of the conventions of music at large.
A discussion of my standpoint in life.
A dedication to my family.
Based on the perfect time provided by MIDI tracks when building up pieces in a DAW. The focus being on building up a performance of several midi tracks playing synthesisers and adding some live recorded instrument and voice tracks.
From around the age of seventeen, my attempts at creating music involved various garage bands. This evolved into Vehicle, a band concept I cooked up when I was twenty. The focus eventually became a core live band with some overdubbing of mostly live tracks and maybe some midi tracks playing back on synthesisers.