Variant Genes 15a

Variant Genes 15a
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Variant Genes 12a
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Variant Genes 11a
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Variant Genes 10a
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Variant Genes 9a
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Variant Genes 8a
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Variant Genes 7a
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Variant Genes 6a
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Variant Genes 5a
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Variant Genes 4a
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Variant Genes 3a
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Variant Genes 2a
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Variant Genes 2
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Variant Genes 1
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Jealous

I'm jealous as hell! Exeter College, where I work in one of my 2 part-time cleaning jobs, is hosting Radio One's Academy (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017f6dt). Which is a good thing, of course, but I'm so jealous of the young people who get to do things like that. When I was at school in the 1960s working class kids like me were deliberately steered away from arts, music, poetry, acting or any of the interesting things. Britain in those days was class structured and the child of a coalman or a factory worker was expected to become a coalman or factory worker like his old man, while the children of middle class families were expected to follow in their father's footsteps to become a bank manager or other middle class job. Working class kids were not encouraged to go to university even if bright. I left school without qualifications and stayed that way until I did the Mensa IQ test in my 30's and, being informed that I had an IQ of 160, was thus able to gain the confidence to go to university as a mature student and get my art degree. In the 60s we had nothing. We weren't even allowed to touch musical instruments at school in case, being clumsy working class oafs, we might break them. Nor were we allowed to use the high quality art materials which were kept in a glass case only for show. Kids these days, by contrast, have everything! That's what makes me so jealous. I don't begrudge it to them though.

The Play's The Thing

The Play's The Thing
I'm playing lead and bass on this, overdubbed the bass using the same guitar as for the lead, but playing on the lowest string only. Then weirdly processed.

A Naughty Donkey

A Naughty Donkey
It's just some simple straightforward guitar played into an ipad using an irig cable and then repeating the recorded track several times with varying Garageband effects applied.

How Your Man Stayed Up On The Surfboard After 14 Pints Of Stout

How Your Man Stayed Up On The Surfboard After 14 Pints Of Stout
The title comes from the Christy Moore song "Delirium Tremens" - The tune (?) interprets the idea via the gift of surf rock...

Gallery Tour

My latest video is called "Gallery Tour" 


  Gallery Tour from Speculativism on Vimeo.

Two Electric Pianos In E Minor

Two Electric Pianos In E Minor

Brass And Strings In D Minor

Brass And Strings In D Minor

Strings In A Flat Major

Strings In A Flat Major

Two Pianos In A Flat Major

Two Pianos In A Flat Major

The Transactional Nature Of I

The Transactional Nature Of I
Developed from an earlier track: "The Square Root of Minus One"

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