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 Electronic Music Composition : A Selection of Audio, Instrumental and Collaborations |
 I've been playing and recording music for the last 20 years. The tracks below are a mixture of instrumentals and collaborative projects. I use synthesizers, sequencers, samplers and drum machines to create my music. I'm currently working on some new instrumental tracks consisting of strange dark electronic sketches, sequences, noises and soundscapes - also making the transition from hardware to software based music and sound creation. All going well these will form the basis of some new animations, paintings and possibly some new collaborations with vocalists....but for now, there's the old stuff!
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| Music Downloads / Download Details |
 All the tracks below were recorded at home on a mixture of analog 4-track cassette (my trusty Tascam 424) and computer so please forgive the recording quality. The songs are in MP3 format. They've been compressed quite a bit to keep the loading times down. To Save the File (PC), right click on the song name, or the blue download icon, and select "Save Target As". Your computer will then prompt you for a destination folder. If you just want to play the file, click on the song name / download icon and the song will play automatically after loading. |
| Alone* / Music by Pedley & Santini 2001 / Duration 00:03:46 / File Size 3.45 Mb |
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| Melody* / Music by Pedley & Santini 2001 / Duration 00:04:25 / File Size 4.05 Mb |
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| Time* / Music by Pedley & Santini 2001 / Duration 00:04:04 / File Size 3.73 Mb |
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| Awake / Instrumental by Pedley 2000 / Duration 00:04:59 / File Size 4.57 Mb |
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| Wasp Factory / Instrumental by Pedley 98 / Duration 00:03:26 / File Size 3.14 Mb |
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| Blue** / Music by Kennett & Pedley 1997 / Duration 00:03:06 / File Size 2.85 Mb |
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| Subverse* / Instrumental by Pedley 1995 / Duration 00:04:03 / File Size 3.70 Mb |
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* Alone, Melody & Time : Words & Vocals - Nina Santini [ click here to visit Nina on myspace ]
** Blue features Words and Vocals from David Kennett.
Keyboards, Sequencer and Drum Programming on all tracks by Brian Pedley |
| A Brief History of Pedley Music..... |
I first started making music (I use that term loosely!) back in 1985 when I discovered Spec-drum, an 8 bit, sample based drum machine on the old Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was great fun, and I was instantly hooked to the notion of making sounds and constructing music. I was listening to lots of electronic music (it was the 80's!) - Jarre, Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke, Howard Jones, Vangelis, OMD - I was instantly attracted to the other worldly sounds, sequenced notes and samples. Whilst at Thurrock Art College I would lock myself away in the piano rooms when I had any free time and play for hours. Back then I couldn't really play (not much has changed) but I just loved the sound and tone of the piano. A friend of mine Jason Grundy (a keyboard wiz) introduced me to the synth room - it had a couple of keyboards - a Juno 106 and a Casio CZ 101, a 4-track, a Yamaha drum machine and a 1 track sequencer - it was fantastic. My love affair with electronic music technology had begun! The following year I got myself a Casio CZ1000 Synthesizer (which I still have). I spent hours creating weird sounds, then using a cassette recorder I would record down a track then play it back recording onto another cassette recorder an additional track - complete with "Brian, your dinners ready" in the background!
The years at Brighton were great (I started in 1989). I still had very little equipment, my trusty Casio CZ, Spec-Drum was replaced with a Korg DDD1 drum machine and that was it. The Korg drum machine was great as I was able to do simple sequencing, using it to trigger midi notes and create fast appegiated sequences. Luckily Brighton had a performing arts department so I was able to sneak in and borrow their Tascam 4 Track and an old Casio SK1 Sampler....the pedley demos were born! - I would get to borrow the 4 track for a few days at a time, so I would shut myself away and record....My poor flat mates then had to sit through hours and hours of self indulgent musical doodles! - but the doodles did get better. I also started the first of many collaborations with vocalists....Andrew Chapman a friend from Basildon being the first and we did our best to create our take on the world of electronic pop. It was a great learning experience and over a period of a few years I increased my musical arsenal to include, a Kawai K1 Synthesizer (which had a really cool vocal choir sound which I used on everything at the time) Yamaha FB01 - dirt cheap sound module but great for nuts and bolts sounds, Atari 1040 St (my first music computer!), Korg 05 R/W.....okay, I think you get the picture, I could talk about music equipment forever! (Ed - if you ever read this, I miss having someone that understands!). As I got more confident with the music making I found it increasingly more difficult to find good singers...in desperation I placed an advert in Q Magazine. I got a reply from Southamption based vocalist, multi instrumentalist and all round creative clever clogs! - David Kennett. We worked on some great ideas over a period of a few of years, David writing words and vocals to my music. It was an excellent musical experience for me as David was a real professional, recording complete vocals tracks in one take. We created some really interesting theatrical pop. 'Blue' was probably our best track. David now has a recording contract as a songwriter!
Moving into 2000, I met Nina Santini and we worked on a series of demos, again never quite happened, but we did get as far as sending off a demo! We keep threatening to get back and record some new material....
Over the years I've continued to make music, adding music to the animations. I continue to create those self indulgent musical doodles. The plan for 2009 is to complete the transition from hardware to software based music creation. Learn how it all works! - and finally get making some new music! |
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