tag:mldunn.net,2005:/blogs/blog?p=9Blog2024-03-17T02:03:17-12:00Michael Lisle Dunnfalsetag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/73683112024-03-17T02:03:17-12:002024-03-17T02:06:07-12:00HD Remaster of Digitiphony 3 at Bandcamp<p>I have released a 24bit HD remaster of my Third Digitiphony at Bandcamp today, including a bonus track of Culmination - the Radio edit of the final section <a class="no-pjax" href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/album/digitiphony-3" target="_blank" data-link-type="url">https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/album/digitiphony-3</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/73585732024-02-27T23:59:16-12:002024-02-28T00:02:17-12:00Restabilisation<p>Other than an unwelcome computer failure (now sorted and reinstalled) in the studio, things are settling down this year - I finished the organ piece I wrote, inspired by the individual and muse-ifying pipe organ at Glencruitten House, for when it is restored, and I am back on transcribing the Rag Doll songs (mentioned below) for String Quartet and voices. I am on song #8 now, out of ten, and looking forward to when they are all finished so I can get on with my musical life. It has been a bigger project than I expected, partly because of other things going on in my life, partly because of the challenges of transcribing from an old 1980s cassette tape. Truly analogue :-)</p><p>Here's the organ piece - <a class="no-pjax" href="https://youtu.be/8UzFPVzmo2k?si=71RvnrI2shccdMJU" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/8UzFPVzmo2k?si=71RvnrI2shccdMJU</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/73157602023-12-06T23:39:46-12:002023-12-06T23:42:43-12:00New Video<p><span>I have a new video up. I wrote the track in 2014 a couple of months before my stroke. That must have knocked it out of my head and I forgot about it until rediscovering it this week. It is narrated by my good friend Paul Belben, backing vocals by Claire Dunn and the rest by me - </span></p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="BXj0Jqkuv-0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BXj0Jqkuv-0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/72523882023-08-04T22:17:50-12:002023-10-16T02:55:26-12:00Swimming against a tide<p>The last month or three have been difficult - the death of my father and his funeral have necessarily taken the focus away from my music. However I am returning to a mental place where I can work again, whilst never having stopped entirely, except for the last week or so. Someone said something to me this week that resonates deeply with me, and will do for many others - ‘For a creative person, not to be able to create is like suffocating’.</p><p>I am still working on the rearrangement of the 1987 musical that I wrote with David Chandler's libretto - ‘Rag Doll’ - for String Quartet and voice. I am close to finishing song 4 out of 10. I am also, very slowly (very <i>very</i> slowly..) still working on my Trumpet Concerto. I have the skeleton of all three movements in my head, and have started putting pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) for the beginning of each one (the first movement is about half way there, in fact).</p><p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/72048422023-05-07T22:16:52-12:002023-05-07T22:16:53-12:00New work<p>I have started work on writing a Trumpet Concerto. I don't expect to complete this quickly due to all the other things currently happening in my life - my Musical Access work has got very busy as all my clients are finally completely out of lockdown (about a year after everyone else!) and I am also re-arranging a musical I composed the music for many years ago for string quartet. In the meantime here is the opening section of the Trumpet Concerto </p><p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1509150601&color=%23161616&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe></p><div style="color:#cccccc;font-family:Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10px;font-weight:100;line-break:anywhere;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;word-break:normal;">
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</div><p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/71393392023-01-17T09:03:58-12:002023-01-17T09:03:58-12:00I can feel the light - Lyric Video<p>The culmination of an international meeting of talents from Texas, Michigan, Warsaw and the UK, 'I can feel the light ' is released on February 1st 2023. Here is a lyric video of it to be going on with -</p>
<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wxvLtXqRI68" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/70729902022-10-02T04:32:28-12:002022-10-02T04:32:29-12:00Full score and parts for String Quartet No. 1 now published<p>The full score and 4 individual parts for my First String Quartet are now published at Sheet Music Plus. Beautifully engraved by master engraver Graham Hall and available here - <a contents="https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/string-quartet-no-1-digital-sheet-music/22359240" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/string-quartet-no-1-digital-sheet-music/22359240" target="_blank">https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/string-quartet-no-1-digital-sheet-music/22359240</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392118/4e98b7e1aacc753ce13c7dc1ad35172ae3277706/original/first-page-sq1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/70607152022-09-14T21:43:38-12:002022-09-14T21:43:38-12:00First Full Length String Quartet<p>My first full length (as opposed to my shorter String Quartetettes) String Quartet No. 1 is released today on Bandcamp!</p>
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<p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2684278660/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/album/string-quartet-no-1">String Quartet No. 1 by M L Dunn</a></iframe></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/70268212022-07-29T09:58:46-12:002022-08-24T21:27:30-12:00Hard Sun cover with Claire Dunn and Mella<p>When a friend put up a clip on Facebook from the film 'Into the Wild' with Eddie Vedder singing a song called Hard Sun, I knew I recognised it, but not from that version. I couldn't get it out of my head though, and it was only after a few days and some googling I realised that the version I knew of this song was by Indio, aka Gordon Peterson, who wrote it. He only released one album, Big Harvest, in 1989, which I was given by a friend who thought I would like it - and I did - it is a brilliant album, and now something of a collector's item, if you have the vinyl (sadly I didn't - I only had a cassette, which I lost, which was why I hadn't heard this song for so long). By this time, the song had wormed its way into my ear, and the only way I could cure myself was by doing a cover of it. Claire Dunn and Mella agreed to help me out with it. It was also a good excuse to use my 'personally manufactured', baritone guitar remodelled from a bass acoustic guitar by my friend and talented guitar maestro Paul Belben.</p>
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<p>It is available on all the streaming sites too, such as Spotify - <a contents="https://open.spotify.com/track/6RQrMwEXiVEm8J08sfdvRM" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6RQrMwEXiVEm8J08sfdvRM" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/track/6RQrMwEXiVEm8J08sfdvRM</a></p>
<p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/70110092022-07-09T02:25:31-12:002022-07-09T02:25:31-12:00Stasis and a book<p>Since finishing my Digitiphonic version of Strauss' Metamorphosen I have found myself in musical stasis. Not that I'm not doing anything, more that I am doing too much. I have several projects swirling around in my head or partly finished, but no focus or energy to finish any of them. This hasn't been helped by a death in the family and catching Covid, both close together. However, having recovered, almost, from the Covid, I am now close to finishing one particular smaller project. More on that in a week or three. In the meantime I have to own up to having written a book - details here - <a contents="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60766922-my-reluctant-friend" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60766922-my-reluctant-friend" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60766922-my-reluctant-friend</a></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/69439122022-04-08T04:24:40-12:002022-04-08T04:27:15-12:00Metamorphosen Digitiphonic Changes now on Apple Music, Spotify etc<p>Metamorphosen Digitiphonic Changes has now been released on Apple Music, Spotify and all good internet music stores. Here is the Apple link for it - </p>
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<p><iframe allow="autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *" frameborder="0" height="450" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" src="https://embed.music.apple.com/gb/album/metamorphosen-digitiphonic-changes-ep/1617300044" style="width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;"></iframe></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/69366572022-03-30T22:59:20-12:002022-03-30T22:59:20-12:00Metamorphosen Digitiphonic Changes released 1st April on Bandcamp<p>Tomorrow, 1st April 2022 my reinvention of R Strauss' Metamorphosen is released on Bandcamp.</p>
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<iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3866004865/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphosen-digitiphonic-changes">Metamorphosen Digitiphonic Changes by M L Dunn</a></iframe>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/69342912022-03-28T08:43:42-12:002022-03-28T08:43:42-12:00Metamorphosen Digitiphonic Changes completed<p>After 3 years - the first year researching and deciding if I had the courage to attempt it, then 2 years arranging, producing and recording, I have at last finished my Digitiphonic version of Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen.</p>
<p>Richard Strauss wrote Metamorphosen at the end of World War 2 as a lament for the destruction of the cultural life and architecture of Berlin - and everywhere else in Europe I guess too - so, even though I started it so long ago, with no idea of what would take place in Ukraine, it seems particularly relevant now, with the needless desecration of war once again tearing apart the fabric and architecture of Europe.. </p>
<p>Originally Strauss meant Metamorphosen to be a Choral piece, but he changed it to a string piece when he was offered a commission for a strings only piece. So, in this version I have used the words, by Goethe, that he was planning to use. They are beautiful words - the English translation is as follows - </p>
<p>"No one can really know himself, <br>detach himself from his inner being <br>Yet, each day he must put to the test, <br>What is in the end, clear. <br>What he is and what he was, <br>what he can be and what he might be. </p>
<p>But, what goes on in the world, <br>No one really understands it rightly, <br>and also up to the present day, <br>no one desires to understand it. <br>Conduct yourself with discernment. <br>Just as the day offers itself; <br>Think always: it's gone well up to now, <br>so might it go until the end."</p>
<p>The final mix is currently with the talented mastering engineer Marcin Bociński in Warsaw. Hopefully it will be finished by early April, then released shortly after that.</p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/68842752022-01-30T23:41:24-12:002022-01-30T23:53:37-12:00String Quartetettes 0-10 released on all internet music platforms<p>My String Quartetettes 0-10 are released on all internet music platforms now. Follow this link for a list of available platforms to stream or buy them - <a contents="smarturl.it/quartetettes0-10" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/quartetettes0-10" target="_blank">smarturl.it/quartetettes0-10</a></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/68656762022-01-11T07:22:36-12:002022-01-11T07:22:36-12:00Slow, very slow<p>For the first time in my life I have written a piece of music the tempo of which is marked as 'Grave' (that's 40 bpm, very slow) so in a cunning play on words I thought I would find some shots of graves to put with it. This will be the second movement of my first String Quartet (If I finish the other movements that is)</p>
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<p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/68628942022-01-08T06:10:06-12:002022-01-08T06:10:06-12:00String Quartetettes released at Bandcamp, more platforms soon<p>My first 11 String Quartetettes - miniature String Quartets - are now released on Bandcamp. Further platforms to follow later in the month. I first started writing these when I bought a Windows tablet after my stroke in 2014, and installed an app called Staffpad on it, which lets you write music out longhand with a pen, recognises your writing (if you are careful) and renders it as printed notes. I thought the discipline of having to carefully write music so it could be recognised by the program would be good for the recovery of my right hand, which barely worked. Over the next few years I would write one out every now and again between other projects, then export it to my computer to finish it off, but as they are very short it has taken a while to build up enough of them to make it worth releasing them. When I have built up my stamina and patience, and also finished writing Digitiphonies, I hope to start writing full length Quartets, but we’ll see. They're just a bit of fun really.</p>
<iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3134224877/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/album/string-quartetettes-0-10">String Quartetettes 0-10 by M L Dunn</a></iframe>
<p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/68027512021-11-08T23:28:18-12:002021-11-08T23:28:18-12:00Halfway through Metamorphosen ! Yay !<p>Talk about a musical Long Haul. I am now halfway (14 minutes) through my Digitiphonic re-invention of Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen. I am not sure I would have attempted this if I had realised what I was taking on, but I don't regret it. How could I, with such an epic piece of music. My sheer terror of letting down this awesome composition, together with the thrill of discovering the depth of Strauss' notes and modulations, coupled with Goethe's timeless words (which RS was originally planning to use for this piece) have given me the momentum to keep going. Also the help given to me originally by Music Engraver Graham Hall, and then the sweet alto vocals of Claire Dunn and Mella Barnes. Without this support I may not have got very far into this 28 minute classic. It can all still go wrong – it has taken me about a year to get this far and it perhaps will be another year before I finish it.</p>
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" title="m l dunn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/r-strauss-metamorphosen-digitiphonic-changes-1st-half" title="R Strauss' Metamorphosen (Digitiphonic Changes) 1st Half" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">R Strauss' Metamorphosen (Digitiphonic Changes) 1st Half</a>
</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/67744102021-10-12T22:32:58-12:002021-10-12T22:32:58-12:00Unplugged Live Studio Vocal of Light of the World<p>I finally got around to releasing this unplugged studio solo vocal version of Light of the World, which someone suggested I release when I made the video, over two years ago. Better late than never - <a contents="https://smarturl.it/MLD-LOTW-Unplugged" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://smarturl.it/MLD-LOTW-Unplugged" target="_blank">https://smarturl.it/MLD-LOTW-Unplugged</a></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/67696702021-10-07T22:13:21-12:002021-10-07T22:13:21-12:00Kingley Vale sheet music score now available online<p>The orchestral score for my Symphonic Poem 'Kingley Vale' (beautifully engraved by master engraver Graham Hall) is now available online at Sheetmusicplus <a contents="https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/22108247" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/22108247" target="_blank">https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/22108247</a></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/67654292021-10-03T22:49:04-12:002021-10-03T22:49:04-12:00Another Creepypasta narration and music for Justine Perry<p>I narrated and wrote the music for another of Justine Perry's horror stories on her YouTube channel 'Tales for Endless Nights'. Just in time for Halloween 2021 </p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wi152BNnpMg" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/67444262021-09-12T22:16:13-12:002021-09-12T22:19:04-12:00'Mist' (Never Leave my heart) with Mella released today! <p>'Mist' with the amazing voice of Mella providing the vocals is released today. Find the links to all the streaming services here - <a contents="https://smarturl.it/mldunn-mist" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://smarturl.it/mldunn-mist" target="_blank">https://smarturl.it/mldunn-mist</a></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/67380812021-09-06T08:52:29-12:002021-09-06T08:52:29-12:00Pre-save link for 'Mist' featuring Mella<p>One week from today, on 13th September 2021, my new collaboration with the awesome Mella is released on all the internet music platforms. If you have Spotify, you can pre-save it here -</p>
<p> </p><iframe src="https://show.co/social-unlock/2wYk8XDyRpGG1KgWlrIod1/widget" width="100%" height="450" frameborder="0"></iframe>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/67364252021-09-04T23:35:14-12:002021-09-04T23:37:18-12:00Some way down the Metamorphosen road<p>I am now 8 minutes (about a quarter of the way) into my Digitiphonic version of R Strauss' Metamorphosen, thanks to ongoing vocal contributions from Claire Dunn and Mella Barnes - it is a much bigger project than I realised when I started it. In fact it's like writing another Digitiphony. But I've started, so I can't stop. Hoping to (though not sure I will) complete it before 2023...</p>
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="m l dunn">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/metamorphosen-digitiphonic-pts-1-2" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Metamorphosen (Digitiphonic Changes) parts 1 and 2">Metamorphosen (Digitiphonic Changes) parts 1 and 2</a>
</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/67119682021-08-09T21:38:08-12:002021-08-09T21:38:08-12:00New collab with Mella<p>My new collaboration with the amazing Mella is officially released on 13th September, but you can hear it already on bandcamp </p>
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<iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=248101075/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/track/mist-never-leave-my-heart-feat-mella">Mist (Never leave my heart) - Feat. Mella by M L Dunn</a></iframe>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/66887562021-07-15T03:59:03-12:002021-07-15T03:59:03-12:00Metamorphosen (Digitiphonic Changes) first two vocal phrases in <p>Between myself and Claire (my better half and singer from U. Kay Hytz) we are covering the vocal phrases of the words by Goethe that Strauss originally intended to put to the tunes of Metamorphosen. Of course I am terrified of letting this piece down, so taking things very slowly. We are over 4 minutes in now though.</p>
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" title="m l dunn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/r-strauss-metamorphosen-digitiphonic-changes-first-4-mins" title="R Strauss' Metamorphosen - Digitiphonic Changes - First 4 Mins" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">R Strauss' Metamorphosen - Digitiphonic Changes - First 4 Mins</a>
</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/66640982021-06-18T22:23:33-12:002021-06-18T22:28:44-12:00Kingley Vale Score, Dolby Atmos mixing and Metamorphosen resumption (again)<p>I received the score of my Tone Poem Kingley Vale back from the printers this week. It looks amazing. Beautifully engraved by Graham Hall at <a contents="ghmusic.prep.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.ghmusicprep.com/" target="_blank">ghmusic.prep.com</a> and printed on heavy grade A3 paper so no bleed through from the other side of the pages.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392118/c17208fe59dcc7b3d830545d198156a02dbd1173/original/img-20210617-101208.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="Kingley Vale Cover" /> <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392118/e4aef850e1d2f8ea4a21eb42ce39e5f1c602d062/original/img-20210616-193241.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="Kingley Vale First Page" /></p>
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<p>I have started remixing 'Culmination' from Digitiphony 3 final movement in Dolby Atmos surround. I think this format may be about to become more mainstream as an immersive music format, though of course, in the history of music formats there have been many casualties along the road so no-one can predict which ones will stay the course. But I think music has been itching for a new format for decades - the gradual creeping, pervasive compression of music files on the internet to stream them has had a numbing effect on music quality, though it is understandable how and why it has happened. But Dolby Atmos has been around in cinemas and theatres for a while now, and the technology is spreading to people's homes and, more importantly, AI and software developments have meant that it can be translated into headphones listening. Our two ears make 3 dimensional sense of sound surrounding us, after all, so why shouldn't that be possible with artificial intelligence and computer software?</p>
<p>Also I am back working on my Digitiphonic version of R Strauss' Metamorphosen, again, after gaps and distractions. I need to accept that this is a long term project and pace myself. I am terrified I will make a poor rendition of a much admired, aesthetically profound and inspired piece of music, so I am taking my time and being careful and meticulous. I am working on the second phrase of the words by Goethe that Strauss was originally going to use for the music, before it became a string piece. These words of Goethe's are deeply moving, and are one reason why I can't let this project go.</p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/66385022021-05-23T21:31:47-12:002021-05-23T21:31:47-12:00Kingley Vale photo montage<p>I went down to Kingley Vale in the South Downs, UK, to check my memories of it were correct while I was writing the Tone Poem of the same name. I took lots of photographs, retracing the steps of my childhood walks in that magical, mystical and inspiring place. I have assembled them into a video and put it on Youtube, accompanied by the music I wrote.</p>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/77pukK4RbwU" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/66138572021-04-25T21:19:03-12:002021-04-25T21:19:03-12:00Kingley vale released at Apple etc and back to Metamorphosen<p>Kingley Vale, my modern day Symphonic/Tone Poem, is now released at Apple, Spotify, Tidal and all good internet music stores. I am gradually moving my psyche back to working on my Digitiphonic version of R. Strauss' Metamorphosen, which the above Tone Poem distracted me from. More on that soon.</p>
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<p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/66030592021-04-13T08:13:51-12:002021-04-13T08:23:50-12:00Kingley Vale<p>I have finished my modern day Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem 'Kingley Vale' a challenge I accepted from my friend Richard Howard and inspired by a magical place in the South Downs, UK. Kingley Vale is a mixture of ancient Yew Forests, Steep Hills and antiquated burial mounds. the Yew Trees are believed to be up to two thousand years old, the burial mounds even older.</p>
<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=431820981/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;">Kingley Vale by M L Dunn</iframe></p>
<p>A Tone Poem was a descriptive, orchestral, programmatic piece inspired by a certain place or situation. I walked up Kingley Vale many times as a young child, then as an adult. This music was based on the first of those journeys that I can remember - I would have been about seven. When I was three quarters of the way through writing the music, I decided to take a trip down there, as lockdown was easing. it's only 10 miles away from where I live. It all seemed amazingly familiar, despite the fact that I haven't been there for many years..</p>
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<p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/65502972021-02-15T12:00:00-12:002021-02-16T09:46:38-12:00Learning, always learning<p>I feel like I have gone back to school. The two projects in particular that I am working on are both educative and inspiring, but I would not have thought to do them without being nudged into them. The first, I have been meaning to do for a while, but was waiting to finish my tenth Digitiphony before letting it engross me. I first heard Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen a few years ago, and it had a profound effect on me. I knew then that one day I would have to have a go at re-interpreting it in Digitiphonic style, but this idea was accelerated greatly when my friend, and music engraver, Graham Hall transcribed the whole thing for me (in <em>a</em> <em>week</em> ! - that would have taken me a year if I had tried to do it) into Dorico, which meant that instead of squinting at a pocket score I could port over midi files from Dorico to my DAW, saving me loads of time and inspiring me at the same time, also leaving me with enough energy to re-envisage Strauss' notes through electro-orchestral ears, and also to play with the idea of using the words by Goethe that first inspired him to write the music (it was going to be a choral piece originally, apparently) to take the music into the vocal realm as well as the Digitiphonic one. The second project is a challenge from my friend Richard Howard who, when I completed Digitiphony 10, suggested I write a Tone Poem. This musical form, though more something from the end of the 19th Century/beginning of the 20th than something employed in the 21st, first piqued my interest when I became obsessed with Bax's 3rd Symphony ('Tintagel' by Arnold Bax is one of the best known Tone Poems) and apparently Richard had been thinking for a while I should have a go at composing one. He said I needed to remember a place that meant a lot to me, and base it on that. I had no trouble remembering a place - Kingley Vale in the South Downs, which I first went to as a young child - it was a yew forest, burial mounds, steep hills and a view down to the Solent and English Channel from the top. It is a completely magical place. The reason I feel as if I am back at school is because to complete the challenge I feel I should only use orchestral instruments - as composers who wrote Tone Poems (Symphonic Poems) did, 'back in the day' - despite my natural inclination to compose in Electro, as well as Orchestral, soundscapes.</p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/65412442021-02-05T23:24:05-12:002021-02-05T23:26:35-12:00Digitiphony 10 and 4 videos<p>I have two new videos out - one video made by VJ Sadler Johnson of a Trance Edit from Digitiphony 4, also a Teaser Video for Digitiphony 10, which is now available on all internet music platforms</p>
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<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h4tLmGR-ciQ" width="560"></iframe>and<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/egXAu0koJxc" width="560"></iframe></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/65044382020-12-20T23:13:36-12:002020-12-20T23:13:36-12:00Full length Digitiphony 10 preview<p>From now until 3rd January 2021, when 'A Quantum Mass' is released, there will be a full length preview of the entire album on this site, both on the Homepage and here - </p>
<p> </p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 400px; height: 671px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1934493910/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/tracklist=true/tracks=902750903,2522395368,3672596791,3770780872,3912642667/esig=41064fd4d6ce3480cc11e186e7db5ac4/" seamless><a href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/album/a-quantum-mass-digitiphony-10">A Quantum Mass (Digitiphony 10) by M L Dunn</a></iframe>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/64986312020-12-13T09:41:12-12:002020-12-13T09:41:12-12:00Suntide<p>In February of last year, while on holiday in Aldeburgh, Suffolk I woke up very early one morning as the bed in our hotel was so uncomfortable. I walked down to the beach just as the sun was rising over the North Sea. It was an incredibly still, foggy morning, that was destined to become a day of clear blue skies. As the sun rose and burnt through the fog I stood, listening to the waves lap up around my feet, and then started videoing the sunrise on my phone. When I got home I realised that the morning had been so still that the audio of the waves was in fact very useable (normally wind noise would overwhelm all the other sounds) so I wrote an ambient piece of music to go with the tranquil sound of the waves. It is only this year that I have got round to finishing the piece as I have been so busy working on Digitiphony 10 (even though I put the video I made last year up on youtube) and today that track, called 'Suntide' was released on all the streaming services - Spotify, Apple, Tidal etc and also as downloads on Bandcamp</p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3069958722/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/track/suntide">Suntide by M L Dunn</a></iframe>
<p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/64876732020-11-28T10:18:37-12:002020-12-01T02:17:28-12:00Digitiphony 10/A Quantum Mass finalised and due for release<p>My Tenth Digitiphony "A Quantum mass" has now been mastered by talented mastering engineer Marcin Bocinski for Legato Mastering in Warsaw, Poland, and is due to be released on 3rd January 2021 on Spotify, Apple, Tidal etc The highest quality version will be available on Bandcamp on 2nd February 2021 as 24/16bit, Flac or MP3 downloads. If you follow me there you will be notified when it is released on that platform.</p>
<p><a contents="Digitiphony 10 at bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/album/a-quantum-mass-digitiphony-10" target="_blank">Digitiphony 10 at bandcamp</a></p>
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<p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1934493910/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;">A Quantum Mass (Digitiphony 10) by M L Dunn</iframe></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/64815672020-11-19T10:41:20-12:002020-11-19T10:41:20-12:00Digitiphony 10 is written<p>I have finished writing and recording the 5th Movement of Digitiphony 10/A Quantum Mass, so therefore the whole Digitiphony is now complete. The recordings are currently being mastered by a mastering engineer in Warsaw, Poland and I have high hopes for the result when he has finished with it.</p>
<p>So perhaps it will be released by the end of the year !</p>
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" title="m l dunn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/digitiphony-10-part-5-all-of-us" title='Digitiphony 10 Part 5 - "All of Us"' target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Digitiphony 10 Part 5 - "All of Us"</a>
</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/64726372020-11-08T00:37:15-12:002020-11-08T00:37:15-12:00Digitiphony 10 Final Movement started<p>I am 4 minutes or so into writing and recording the final part of Digitiphony 10 (A Quantum Mass). It has been a long, long journey writing this Digitiphony but I think I can see the last part of the road opening up before me. I'm still not entirely sure how much more I have to write, even how it is going to end (normally I at least have some idea of how I am going to finish a Digitiphony, but not this time) - like all Digitiphonies, the writing of it is an adventure that leads me to unpredictable outcomes.</p>
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" title="m l dunn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/all-of-us-digitiphony-10-part-1-beginning" title="All of Us (Digitiphony 10 Part 5) beginning" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">All of Us (Digitiphony 10 Part 5) beginning</a>
</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/64695362020-11-03T09:35:02-12:002020-11-03T09:38:30-12:00Digitiphony 1 score completed<p>I am relived, proud, excited and apprehensive to announce that after nearly 4 years meticulous, painstaking transcription and squeezed in between other projects, using the wonderful notation app Dorico (in all its iterations to date - 1,2 and 3) I have finally completed the full score to Digitiphony 1. It feels like this score and Dorico have developed, like brother and sister, in tandem (I couldn't have done this in any other app). It’s now been sent to a master engraver to be tweaked, burnished and finalised (also in Dorico, which has so many levels) before presenting it to orchestras for commission rehearsal and, hopefully, its Orchestral Premier (pandemic allowing) in late 2021/2022</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392118/de47f6976707605632bb4e7d529164e380aa1bd0/original/d1-draft-complete.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/64578512020-10-17T01:50:41-12:002020-10-17T01:50:41-12:00Digitiphony 10 4th Movement finished<p>It has been the hardest Digitiphony to write for all sorts of reasons, but I am within sight of the completion of Digitiphony 10. I have finished writing the 4th Movement, so just the final movement to go. here is the 4th -</p>
<p> </p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/912195688&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;">
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" title="m l dunn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/digitiphony-10-a-quantum-mass-4th-movement" title="Digitiphony 10 (A Quantum Mass) 4th Movement" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Digitiphony 10 (A Quantum Mass) 4th Movement</a>
</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/64501062020-10-06T02:54:13-12:002020-10-06T02:54:13-12:00Tibetan Singing Bowls for Kontakt now at Loot Audio<p>My Tibetan Singing Bowls Virtual Instrument for Kontakt is now available at Loot Audio <a contents="https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/mikedunn/singing-bowls" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/mikedunn/singing-bowls" target="_blank">https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/mikedunn/singing-bowls</a></p>
<p><a contents="https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/mikedunn/singing-bowls" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/mikedunn/singing-bowls" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392118/2c4f9199439479379d19e3f77e59f8e9f9a66473/original/k2-tibetan-bowls-screenshot.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/64268962020-09-07T02:49:00-12:002020-09-07T02:49:00-12:00Digitiphony 10/Quantum Mass<p>I am three and a half minutes into Part 4 of my Tenth Digitiphony (A Quantum Mass). Due to all sorts of outside factors my Digitiphonic progress has been painfully slow this year. I can just about see the endpoint now, but it will be at least 2021 before I finish and release this </p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/888715963&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;">
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" title="m l dunn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/digitiphony-10-a-quantum-mass-part-4-first-3-minutes-30-secs" title="Digitiphony 10 (A Quantum Mass) part 4 - first 3 minutes 30 secs" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Digitiphony 10 (A Quantum Mass) part 4 - first 3 minutes 30 secs</a>
</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/63883732020-07-21T03:55:45-12:002020-07-21T03:55:45-12:00Tenth Digitiphony Part 4 in progress<p>I am two minutes into Part 4 of my Tenth Digitiphony. Increasingly I am thinking there will be 5 parts, but I am still not totally sure.</p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/861792949&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;">
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" title="m l dunn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/a-quantum-mass-digitiphony-10part-4-1st-2-minutes" title="A Quantum Mass (Digitiphony 10)Part 4 - 1st 2 minutes" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">A Quantum Mass (Digitiphony 10)Part 4 - 1st 2 minutes</a>
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<p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/63866102020-07-17T10:14:40-12:002020-07-17T10:15:17-12:00New video and song release<p>Many years ago, aged 19, I wrote a song in which I looked back to being 17, which seemed, then, a lifetime before. Yet today, I look back to being 19 and it seems just the other week, even though, believe me it's a LOT longer than that. The song was called 'Nowhere' and was written for the first and only album released, on vinyl, by the band I was a part of then ('In Order of Appearance' by The Cast - 1981 <a contents="https://www.discogs.com/The-Cast-In-Order-Of-Appearance/release/6099439" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.discogs.com/The-Cast-In-Order-Of-Appearance/release/6099439" target="_blank">https://www.discogs.com/The-Cast-In-Order-Of-Appearance/release/6099439</a> ) Together with Mella, the wonderful, musically empathetic singer I met last year, I made a remake, as in the original the instrumentation was just piano, but I added a violin part. Together with one of my old managers, Jennie Beaumont and some very cool helpers in Leeds, we also made a video. Here is the result </p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UnMhtNuAmfU" width="560"></iframe></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/63594922020-06-19T09:15:37-12:002020-06-19T09:15:37-12:00Digitiphony 10 Part 3 complete<p>It has been slow, meticulous work but I have finished Part 3 of my Tenth Digitiphony (A Quantum Mass). I am starting to see an overall structure for it, perhaps it will consist of 5 movements, so perhaps I am more than half way through the entire work. </p> <iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/843331468&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;">
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn" title="m l dunn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">m l dunn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/digitiphony-10-a-quantum-mass-part-3" title="Digitiphony 10 (A Quantum Mass) Part 3" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Digitiphony 10 (A Quantum Mass) Part 3</a>
</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/63276122020-05-23T03:03:37-12:002020-05-23T03:03:37-12:00Digitiphony 3 progress<p>I have now written and recorded about three minutes of Digitiphony 10 Part 3 (A Quantum Mass) which is probably about half way through this Movement, though maybe it will end up longer. Like all my Digitiphonies it has developed a life of its own, and I can't predict anything.</p>
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</div>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/62922702020-04-23T09:15:17-12:002020-04-23T09:17:53-12:00Le Rêve de La Vie released at iTunes etc<p>Today the single version of Le Rêve de La Vie is released at iTunes, Spotify etc</p>
<p>I hope everyone is doing OK in these weird times. I am OK but managed to pick up an infection in my leg which stopped me functioning for a while, also I have been sorting out a way of streaming music sessions to my clients, as I can no longer see them in person due to the Pandemic, which has taken a fair amount of sorting out. Slowly I am getting back to working on my Tenth Digitiphony. I count my blessings and I feel for those who have lost <em>all</em> of their work and for those who have lost loved ones. Now is not an easy time. Be safe everyone, live each day and be aware of the good things you have in your life and treasure them.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392118/dd3fcd789a145663e4a559d7d4ae60d353f2fef9/original/lrdv-art-1c.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />The track will be released on streaming sites etc soon, but for now you can get a copy at <a contents="Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/track/le-r-ve-de-la-vie-single-version-feat-mella" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> - <a contents="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/track/le-r-ve-de-la-vie-single-version-feat-mella" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/track/le-r-ve-de-la-vie-single-version-feat-mella" target="_blank">https://mldunn.bandcamp.com/track/le-r-ve-de-la-vie-single-version-feat-mella</a> I have also made a new video for it, different to the longer version - that plays on the fact that Mella looks remarkably like a Pre-Raphelite Muse in the picture (think 'Ophelia' by Millais). I had no idea when Mella sang this a few months ago that in such a short time life really would become like a dream. Take care everyone, keep smiling. And keep washing those hands :-)</p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/62356942020-03-03T03:07:12-12:002020-03-03T03:07:12-12:00Spirithaesia<p>'Spirithaesia' - my 5 minute music meditation, is released today on Apple, Spotify, Amazon etc and also for the first time can be bought as an uncompressed 16bit download direct from this site at <a contents="mldunn.net/spirirthaesia" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://mldunn.net/spirithaesia%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B" target="_blank">https://mldunn.net/spirithaesia</a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.mldunn.net/spirithaesia" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392118/5dfb223d67d06feb6b991f31d8c63c3a32f6b9c7/original/spirithaesia-art.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_" /></a></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/62332852020-02-29T23:35:54-12:002020-02-29T23:38:27-12:00Sunday Meditation<p>I took a short break from working on my 10th Digitiphony to make a little 5 minute musical meditation using my new Crystal Singing Bowl, my (old) Tibetan Singing Bowl and a set of samples of an extended Freenotes Wing. It will be released next week but here is a video I made for it using Magic (the app, not the phenomenon). Available on Apple, Spotify etc on 3rd March 2020<br> </p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vuEyGDMZlMc" width="560"></iframe></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/62172882020-02-16T09:44:31-12:002020-02-16T09:47:07-12:00Digitiphony 10 Part 2 finished<p>I have completed the second part of Digitiphony 10 (A Quantum Mass), which features vocalist Mella singing the song "Le Rêve de la Vie". I still don't know how many parts will make up Digitiphony 10 yet, it is not clear to me yet, although I have the words pretty much finished, which will determine how long it is, to a degree. it just depends how much purely instrumental material will sit amongst the text.</p>
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<p> </p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/61481532020-01-22T10:02:37-12:002020-01-22T10:02:37-12:00New video<p>Taken from the second part of my forthcoming Tenth Digitiphony (a.k.a. 'A Quantum Mass'), and graced by the hauntingly beautiful voice of Mella, this video is a dream sequence that muses on the dream-like quality of life and the life-like quality of dreams. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell which is which.</p>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u0t8F2M8APY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693502019-12-21T12:00:00-12:002019-12-21T16:32:21-12:00Happy Holidays
<p>I hope you all have a wonderful, happy holiday season. Thank you for the support this year; for listening to the music I make and for visiting and 'liking' my various socials, videos and pages. The musical highlight of my year was meeting the singer Mella, and working with her on past songs I wrote - next year may see more of that, but with material I have written specially for her - the first of these is a 'Dream Interlude' in my Quantum Mass, or what I have come to realise will be, if I finish it, my Tenth Digitiphony. Something I thought would never happen. That should appear in late January or February.</p>
<p>Have a Prosperous, Productive and Peaceful 2020 !</p>
<p>Mike</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693492019-11-29T12:00:00-12:002019-11-29T15:59:57-12:00A Quantum Mass Part 1 finished - and it's a Digitiphony
<p>I have finally completed Part 1 of A Quantum Mass - and I have realised that, if I finish it (by no means certain) it will, in fact, be my Tenth Digitiphony. I had been shying away from calling it a Digitiphony, partly as I only ever intended to write 9, and partly because once I have committed to writing a Digitiphony I know I am committing to a long period of hard work, self doubt, doubt in my equipment to keep functioning while I overload it with huge sample libraries, inordinately CPU hungry VSTs and long projects and also an inability to really focus on anything else until it is finished. But I guess we can't change who we are, and I certainly can't choose what my Muse chooses to drive me to do, whatever my own wishes may be. That I have learnt, over many years. And in fact what my Muse wishes me to do is what I feel most comfortable doing, anyway. So Digitiphony 10 it is. For the next several years, probably.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693482019-11-14T12:00:00-12:002019-11-14T17:55:43-12:00One More Thing For Love released
<p>Today my third collaboration with Mella 'One More Thing for Love' is released on iTunes, Spotify etc</p>
<p>To stream on Spotify - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7N3lJopsmAF1ho6eKKaYAZ" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://open.spotify.com/album/7N3lJopsmAF1ho6eKKaYAZ</a></p>
<p>And, for iTunes and Apple - </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693472019-11-02T12:00:00-12:002019-11-03T02:17:31-12:00Interview for Justine Perry's blog
<p>The lyricist, Blogger and author Justine Perry has interviewed me for her blog. Her questions made me think how lucky I am to still be here doing what I do (making music, sharing music, meeting and making music with other musos around the world) in spite of the fact it has been a hard way of life to have chosen at times. Read the blog post at <a href="https://www.justineperry.com/m-l-dunn" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://www.justineperry.com/m-l-dunn</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693462019-10-26T12:00:00-12:002019-10-26T17:47:01-12:00New Track and Video with Mella
<p>I am very lucky to have the remarkable voice of Mella singing one of my songs again. She also braved the cold Autumnal winds of the the Great Lakes region in Michigan to help me make a video. It will be released on 15th November on iTunes, Spotify etc but here is the video -</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693452019-10-20T12:00:00-12:002020-01-22T10:05:28-12:00'Knuckles' released<p>Today 'Knuckles' is released again, this time sung by the awesome Mella, which gives a whole new angle. Available at apple, spotify etc</p>
<p><a contents="https://music.apple.com/gb/album/knuckles/1482225542?i=1482225543" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.apple.com/gb/album/knuckles/1482225542?i=1482225543" target="_blank">https://music.apple.com/gb/album/knuckles/1482225542?i=1482225543</a></p>Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693442019-09-11T12:00:00-12:002019-09-11T15:51:25-12:00A Quantum Mass (continued)
<p>It has been painstakingly slow progress, in amongst other projects and obligations, but I am slowly moving forward with my Quantum Mass, note by note, bar by bar, breath by breath. I am over 5 minutes in now.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693432019-09-10T12:00:00-12:002019-09-10T15:13:33-12:00New collaboration
<p>I have worked with singer Mella on a new version of the song I wrote with lyricist Justine Perry a while ago - a track called 'Knuckles'. It will be released next month but in the meantime you can stream it from my soundcloud page </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693422019-08-26T12:00:00-12:002019-08-26T23:25:45-12:00Interview for Mella's blog
<p>The singer, voice over artist and all round musical soul with a Heart for Art, Mella Barnes, who recently sang my ballad Be Like This River, has interviewed me for her blog. You can read the interview <a href="https://mellamusic.com/an-interview-with-singer-songwriter-ml-dunn/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">here</a> - <a href="https://mellamusic.com/an-interview-with-singer-songwriter-ml-dunn/" data-imported="1">https://mellamusic.com/an-interview-with-singer-songwriter-ml-dunn/</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693412019-08-15T12:00:00-12:002019-08-15T23:04:20-12:00Be Like This River released at Spotify etc
<p>Tonight the audio of 'Be Like This River', Featuring Mella, is released at Spotify, Apple and all the internet music places. Thanks so much to Mella, Claire Dunn and Will Dunn for their help in bringing this track and video to reality. I am now going to get back to writing my Quantum Mass after the distractions (wonderful though they were) of the last few weeks.</p>
<p>To buy at Apple - </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693402019-08-14T12:00:00-12:002019-08-14T15:25:20-12:00Be Like This River and the amazing Mella
<p>When recording 'Conscience' I was lucky enough to be able to benefit from the singing of Mella Barnes (<a href="http://www.mellamusic.com" target="_blank" data-imported="1">www.mellamusic.com</a>) who contributed to some of the harmonies. I was completely blown away by her singing and I knew immediately I wanted to work with her again. I sent her a copy of the ballad 'Be Like This River' that was originally written for Clare Begley of Ltd Company, then performed by uk heights, both bands I have played with in former lives. She agreed to sing it and the result is amazing. It should be released in the next few weeks, in the meantime, here is the video -</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693392019-07-22T12:00:00-12:002019-07-23T03:55:14-12:00Conscience/Cape Understand released on Spotify etc
<p>'Conscience' is released on Spotify today <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/69nEFE74XmCJfmfqIFDCC0" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://open.spotify.com/album/69nEFE74XmCJfmfqIFDCC0</a> also on Apple <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/conscience-cape-understand-single/1473829013" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://music.apple.com/us/album/conscience-cape-understand-single/1473829013</a> and CDBaby <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn27" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn27</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693382019-07-18T12:00:00-12:002019-07-18T22:09:10-12:00New Song, 'Conscience/Cape Understand'
<p>I have completed another new track, with the help of Justine Perry, lyricist. I first wrote the words 'Conscience, leave me alone' and the tune to the chorus of this song when I was in the sixth form at school, so probably 1978 or 1979. I then could not finish it for years, though I tried, until I had a dream in the months after my stroke in 2014 about a 'paradise beach' at an intersection of oceans, which in my dream was called 'Cape Understand' - which gave me more lyrical ideas. Then a few months ago the lyricist <a class="profileLink" title="Justine Perry" href="https://www.facebook.com/justine.perry.75?__tn__=%2CdK-R0.g-R&eid=ARDHSuR1tPJt59hD8OenHFrnRISmD2Kg-6rZqerJIGamVYxV-EQIMXxtY7LbfXm2ZOKWAmuGD2WWir9t&fref=mentions" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100007193341026&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R0.g-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDHSuR1tPJt59hD8OenHFrnRISmD2Kg-6rZqerJIGamVYxV-EQIMXxtY7LbfXm2ZOKWAmuGD2WWir9t%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-imported="1">Justine Perry</a> helped me finish off the words to the song, to a further tune I wrote last year. So this song took me 40 years to write. A record, I think, even for me </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693372019-07-01T12:00:00-12:002019-07-01T15:15:43-12:00A Quantum Mass
<p>Progress is slow but definite ;p - I am about three and a half minutes into this now </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693362019-06-03T12:00:00-12:002019-06-03T15:08:16-12:00This World (A Delicate Balance) now on general release
<p>This World (A Delicate Balance) was released on Monday 3rd June to Apple, Spotify, CDBaby etc</p>
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<p>Spotify link - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0JsNL9WIigpAJYEqNDD1pc" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://open.spotify.com/album/0JsNL9WIigpAJYEqNDD1pc</a></p>
<p>CDBaby link - <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn26" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn26</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693352019-05-21T12:00:00-12:002019-05-22T04:28:04-12:00A Quantum Mass
<p>I have started work on a new long form musical piece. It's not a Digitiphony, but will have Digitiphonic elements, and will take me as long, if not longer. It is choral and formal. Like a Mass for Agnostics. Or something.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693342019-05-13T12:00:00-12:002019-05-13T16:03:16-12:00New Song "This World (A Delicate Balance)"
<p>I read a poem by Julie Goldman, who I have been lucky enough to get to know over the last few months, which inspired me to write the first piece of music that Claire Dunn and I have collaborated on for quite a few years. Julie's Poem is called 'This World' and it is a beautiful observance of the fragility of our planet. It will be officially released on 3rd June, but it is currently up at my Soundcloud - </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693332019-04-26T12:00:00-12:002019-04-27T01:55:13-12:00New Toy
<p>The theme from Digitiphony 3 played on a Roli Seaboard Block. A wonderfully expressive keyboard innovation. Sadly I can only afford this little one currently but the 49 key Seaboard Rise is on my bucket list. Suits the whole Digitiphony concept beautifully.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693322019-04-12T12:00:00-12:002019-04-12T15:14:33-12:00New track "Conscience"
<p>When I was at school, many moons ago, I half wrote a song. Though other tunes I wrote were finished, this one never resolved itself for some reason. The chorus was all I could manage to write. The words "Conscience, leave me alone, I'll get you on your own" were an expression of my adolescent frustration with an emerging sense of morality that just seemed to spoil everything when I was busy trying to rebel and have (what I thought) was fun. Many decades later I was explaining this to lyricist Justine Perry and she accepted the challenge of helping me finish the lyrics to the song. This coincided with a powerful dream I had where I found myself on a beautiful beach by an ocean, it seemed a place where the cares of the world, karma, doing the right thing (or trying to) could be laid to rest for good. In the dream, I asked myself what this place was called. "Cape Understand" came the reply. </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693312019-03-21T12:00:00-12:002019-03-21T23:15:02-12:00Another Parting Gesture
<p>The single from Digitiphony 9 is released today. Called 'Another Parting Gesture' it is a custom edit of the last 4 minutes of the Digitiphony, which is a different thing to just taking the whole of the last track, as track 5 of 'Flows of Time' is longer. Available at <a title="Apple" href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/another-parting-gesture-single/1454897327" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Apple</a> , <a title="Spotify" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3jbntlbl8g4NSFIdXqCyYt" target="_blank" data-imported="1">Spotify</a> , <a title="CDBaby" href="https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn25" target="_blank" data-imported="1">CDBaby</a> and all other major internet music merchants.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693302019-03-02T12:00:00-12:002019-03-02T15:40:08-12:00Suntide
<p>This time last week I was on the beach at Aldeburgh in Suffolk and I have been suffering withdrawal symptoms from it ever since we got back. Luckily I managed to get a video of the dawn waves coming in early one morning as the sun rose over the North Sea. Obviously I couldn't resist mixing it with a smidgeon of music to duet with the waves. This was also the moment I discovered the microphone on my phone is stereo ;p</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693292019-02-19T12:00:00-12:002019-02-20T02:44:28-12:00New String Quartetette
<p><span class="rn-13yce4e rn-fnigne rn-ndvcnb rn-gxnn5r rn-deolkf rn-homxoj rn-1471scf rn-14xgk7a rn-7cikom rn-o11vmf rn-ebii48 rn-gul640 rn-ad9z0x rn-1mnahxq rn-61z16t rn-p1pxzi rn-11wrixw rn-bcqeeo rn-wk8lta rn-9aemit rn-1mdbw0j rn-gy4na3 rn-bauka4 rn-irrty rn-qvutc0" dir="auto">I have written a new String Quartetette (miniature string quartet) - the first for a while <a href="http://www.mldunn.net/string_quartetettes/s/quartetette_no_8" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://www.mldunn.net/string_quartetettes/s/quartetette_no_8</a></span><span class="rn-13yce4e rn-fnigne rn-ndvcnb rn-gxnn5r rn-deolkf rn-homxoj rn-1471scf rn-14xgk7a rn-7cikom rn-o11vmf rn-ebii48 rn-gul640 rn-ad9z0x rn-1mnahxq rn-61z16t rn-p1pxzi rn-11wrixw rn-bcqeeo rn-wk8lta rn-9aemit rn-1mdbw0j rn-gy4na3 rn-bauka4 rn-irrty rn-qvutc0" dir="auto"><a class="rn-1niwhzg rn-13yce4e rn-fnigne rn-ndvcnb rn-gxnn5r rn-deolkf rn-1n1174f rn-1471scf rn-14xgk7a rn-7cikom rn-o11vmf rn-ebii48 rn-gul640 rn-ad9z0x rn-1mnahxq rn-61z16t rn-p1pxzi rn-11wrixw rn-bcqeeo rn-wk8lta rn-9aemit rn-1mdbw0j rn-gy4na3 rn-bauka4 rn-irrty rn-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/miniature?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true" data-imported="1"><br></a></span></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693282019-02-03T12:00:00-12:002019-02-03T15:03:42-12:00Digitiphony 9 Video
<p>I have set the final few minutes of Digitiphony 9 to a video we made last weekend of a sunset at Pagham Harbour, south of the Downs, on a cold February afternoon </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693272019-01-16T12:00:00-12:002019-01-16T14:35:13-12:00Freedom
<p>Now that I have finished my Digitiphonies I have some time to do whatever I feel like, without a reason. So today was spent trying out my new mic, which thinks it is a Neumann U67 (but sadly isn't, but it's still lovely) messing around on an 'unplugged' version of the old UKH track Light of the World</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693262019-01-06T12:00:00-12:002019-01-06T15:17:15-12:00Flows of Time in all the places
<p>Digitiphony 9 'Flows of Time' is released today as hard copy CD and on Spotify, Pandora etc This is the end of a long road :-) mini site at <a href="https://mldunn.hearnow.com" target="_blank" data-ft="{" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmldunn.hearnow.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1JWCQWJHDYoYIDlgjW4GWqII1kZNbSeryVXUn_94Ob3Cf2Udt-T9Xl_9w&h=AT0LLNGtpd41zh2txDm9sg0scbzpjPMrWPp1ZjXiS2ajkfFmO-CHV1Y2XIq39NQIkq4R5sJbDJ38t5uct7rzTGAHvSdC9fcHtr4YjOjFAzR9Ux1j7e_2kTsPPYDqLloegVi3Gw" data-imported="1">https://mldunn.hearnow.com</a><a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/newagemusic?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG" data-ft="{" data-imported="1"><br></a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693252018-12-31T12:00:00-12:002018-12-31T15:25:02-12:00New Music for a New Year
<p>Happy New Year ! May your dreams be realised, your demons vanquished and your loves fulfilled. Digitiphony 9 is released today at iTunes, Apple Music - here is a link - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/digitiphony-9-flows-of-time/1447563073" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/digitiphony-9-flows-of-time/1447563073</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693242018-12-23T12:00:00-12:002018-12-23T15:34:10-12:00Happy Holidays
<p>Season's Greetings to everyone, I hope you have a Peaceful, Restful Holiday and a Happy, Prosperous 2019. Thank you for the support I have been shown with the music this year. Digitiphony 9 is 'in the works' and will be released on iTunes on 1st January, and on Spotify, Tidal and other online streaming platforms on 7th January, 2019. Peace and Love ! Mike</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693232018-12-11T12:00:00-12:002022-08-24T21:27:30-12:00Digitiphony 9<p>Digitiphony 9 is finally finished. Beautifully mastered by Dave Blackman at Hiltongrove. Due to be released 3rd January 2019 but here is a full length stream </p>
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<p>Well it looks like I have finished Digitiphony 9. It still has to be sent down to Essex to be mastered (which I am not doing myself this time, for that I have enlisted the help of the talented mastering engineer Dave Blackman at Hiltongrove, who mastered the UKH album Welcome to Life in 2005) but, subject to further listening on my part, I feel in my bones it is done. I recognise the feelings of being musically spent and disinterest, aversion even, to what I have produced that I know so well from finishing the last eight Digitiphonies. This Digitiphony is finished with me.</p>
<p> I am very grateful and proud that my old friend, the artist David Chandler, has painted a picture for the artwork for the album. After all that has happened since I wrote the first Digitiphony it seems very fitting that his art should adorn what will almost certainly be the last.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693212018-11-06T12:00:00-12:002018-11-06T15:40:51-12:00Chaotica complete
<p>I have finally finished Chaotica - the third movement of Digitiphony 9 that represents the 5Rhythms flow of Chaos. As the fourth movement is already finished that only leaves one to do - the last, representing Stillness </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693202018-10-20T12:00:00-12:002018-10-21T01:08:05-12:00Halfway point
<p>I am halfway through the Chaos inspired 3rd movement of Digitiphony 9. As I have only one movement to write after this (4 is written already) I am in sight of the end of the Digitiphony. Feeling that familiar feeling of obsessive inability to let go now...</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693192018-09-26T12:00:00-12:002018-09-27T03:06:51-12:00Chaotica begins
<p>I have started work on the 3rd Movement of Digitiphony 9 "Chaotica" This will be my funnest moment of the Digitiphony I reckon ;p </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693182018-09-07T12:00:00-12:002018-09-08T00:54:44-12:00Staccato Heels
<p>I have finally finished the Second Movement of Digitiphony 9. Amongst this UK Summer's distractions of heat, other projects and commitments I finally finished. Three down, two to go ;p </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693172018-08-15T12:00:00-12:002018-08-15T14:59:04-12:00lofi
<p>I was asked for Lo-Fi recordings by one of the companies I supply music to, had a quick look through old boxes of cassettes and have found a treasure trove of 1980s portastudio recordings from my bedsit in Fortune Green, North London. Here is the first - <a href="https://www.pond5.com/stock-music/93213406/token-two.html" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://www.pond5.com/stock-music/93213406/token-two.html</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693162018-08-04T12:00:00-12:002018-08-04T15:42:57-12:00Piano Miniature
<p>My little solo piano piece "So Much A Life" was released this week - you can find links to all stores and streams here <a href="/so-much-a-life" target="_blank" data-imported="1" data-link-type="page">- http://www.mldunn.net/so_much_a_life/</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693152018-06-29T12:00:00-12:002018-06-29T21:54:50-12:00Staccato Heels
<p>I am making good progress on the second movement of Digitiphony 9 now. It is the movement inspired by the Staccato flow of a 5Rhythms Wave</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693142018-06-18T12:00:00-12:002018-06-19T00:45:46-12:00Mailing List er, 'rationalisation'
<p>So by now everyone has heard of GDPR, in Europe at least. So as to keep to the spirit and letter of this, two months ago I resolved to send out emails to everyone on my mailing list to get them to resubscribe if they wished. In doing so I inadvertently and irreversibly deleted the data of the list. If you were one of the people on the list, I apologise for not telling you this individually, but in view of this catastrophic (well it's not <em>really</em> catastrophic is it ?) lapse of technological self control I have decided to no longer have a mailing list. My facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/michaellisledunn" target="_blank" data-imported="1">www.facebook.com/michaellisledunn</a>) and twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/MikeLisleDunn" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://twitter.com/MikeLisleDunn</a>) pages, as well as this blog, will always have the musical activities I am working on, and as I am immersed in my final Digitiphony, and when I finish that, scoring all 9 Digitiphonies out for Orchestra and Electro there is not much to impart by email. As always my Spotify and Apple Music catalogues have a large part of the music I have written up, and I'm getting too old to multitask. So will y'all forgive me ? Sorry :-(</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693132018-06-02T12:00:00-12:002018-06-02T20:39:04-12:00Digitiphony 9 First Movement complete
<p>I have finished writing and recording the first movement to Digitiphony 9, which I in fact wrote second, so I'm two down, three to go. The next movement I am working on is the second, based on the staccato flow of a 5Rhytms dance. Looking forward to that ;p</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693122018-04-26T12:00:00-12:002018-04-26T13:25:00-12:00Digitiphony 9 4th Movement
<p>I have finished the 4th Movement of Digitiphony 9. I originally thought this was the first movement, but it's not. My mistake.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693112018-04-18T12:00:00-12:002018-04-18T15:09:54-12:00Production Music
<p>Two more production libraries have added music of mine to their catalogues, Pond5 - <a href="https://www.pond5.com/artist/mikedunn" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://www.pond5.com/artist/mikedunn</a></p>
<p>and Songtradr <a href="https://www.songtradr.com/user/profile/michaellisledunn" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://www.songtradr.com/user/profile/michaellisledunn</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693102018-04-09T12:00:00-12:002018-04-09T15:42:52-12:00MLD Virtual Instruments Sale
<p>Two virtual instruments designed by me are currently in a sale at sampleism - my Tibetan Singing Bowls for Kontakt and Digitiphony Volume 1, a selection of production music ready loops and edits, spread across a keyboard map, also for Kontakt, taken from early Digitiphonies. Go <a href="https://www.sampleism.com/label/mikedunn/?mc_cid=5204fe8565&mc_eid=99d6b44926" target="_blank" data-imported="1">here</a> for the sale - <a href="https://www.sampleism.com/label/mikedunn/?mc_cid=5204fe8565&mc_eid=99d6b44926" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://www.sampleism.com/label/mikedunn/?mc_cid=5204fe8565&mc_eid=99d6b44926</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693092018-03-29T12:00:00-12:002018-03-29T16:11:29-12:00Flute Trio
<p>My Flute Trio, Black and White Variations, based on an old theme from a uk heights track, is now available as a score at SMP press - <a href="https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/black-and-white-variations-for-flute-trio-digital-sheet-music/20715578" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/black-and-white-variations-for-flute-trio-digital-sheet-music/20715578</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693082018-03-20T12:00:00-12:002018-03-20T22:52:27-12:00Lyrician Moons (Digitiphony 9 four minutes in)
<p>I am four and a half minutes into the first movement of Digitiphony 9. There will be five movements, loosely based on a flow of 5Rhythms dance. Lyrical, Staccato, Chaos, Flowing and Stillness </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693072018-02-21T12:00:00-12:002018-02-22T00:58:03-12:00Digitiphony 9 beginnings
<p>I have started work on Digitiphony 9 </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693062018-02-08T12:00:00-12:002018-02-09T02:26:44-12:00Digitiphony - an audio history
<p>I have made an audio history of the background behind my conceptualisation of Digitiphonies. It's about an hour long and has examples of the history, inspiration and purpose behind my Digitiphonies </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693052018-01-20T12:00:00-12:002018-01-20T17:08:34-12:00New Digitiphony micro site
<p>There is now a new Digitiphony Micro site within this site, with links and artworks to streams and retailaers for all eight existing Digitiphonies. Go here - <a href="http://www.digitiphony.com" data-imported="1">http://www.digitiphony.com</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693042017-12-18T12:00:00-12:002017-12-18T15:56:23-12:00Digitiphony 8 released at iTunes and Happy Holidays
<p>My Eighth Digitiphony, with Artwork by Derek R Audette , is now up at iTunes and Apple Music. I am very happy to see they have described the genre as 'Modern Era'- it seems the idea might be getting across, finally - <a title="Digitiphony 8 at iTunes" href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/digitiphony-8-an-infinite-space/1324786274" target="_blank" data-imported="1">click here to view at iTunes</a></p>
<p>And also, wishing everyone a Happy Holiday Season and Peaceful New Year !</p>
<p>Mike</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693032017-12-08T12:00:00-12:002017-12-08T17:22:04-12:00Digitiphony 8 released at CDBaby
<p>Today Digitiphony 8 is released at CDBaby. It will be up at iTunes etc in the next couple of weeks. Link here - <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn18" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn18</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693022017-10-28T12:00:00-12:002017-10-29T03:44:01-12:00Digitiphony 8 Complete
<p>Digitiphony 8 is finished. I will give it a few weeks tio live with the first mix before making any final tweaks and releasing it fully. In the meantime here is a stream of the first mix from Soundcloud. </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693012017-10-24T12:00:00-12:002017-10-25T01:52:04-12:00License MLD tracks at Songtradr
<p>Tracks of mine (including U Kay Hytz etc) can now be licensed through songtradr - follow <a title="This link" href="https://www.songtradr.com/user/profile/michaellisledunn" target="_blank" data-imported="1">this link</a> to go there. Anyone who wants other tracks currently not up there to license just <a href="http://www.mldunn.net/contact/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">contact me using the form on this site</a> and I will put them up there too</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60693002017-10-04T12:00:00-12:002017-10-04T14:20:45-12:00The Lake Instrumental
<p>In 2009 U Kay Hytz collaborated with sultry chanteuse Sally Strawberry to record the French and English versions of The Lake. This week I released an instrumental version, re-mastered with ambient cello </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692992017-09-17T12:00:00-12:002017-09-18T01:23:36-12:00Great Ballad score (sic)
<p>I have a running joke with a colleague and old friend of mine, composer Chris Broom; he finds it hilarious that my first school was called Great Ballard, as one of the defining features of my early songwriting career was that my ballads were much better than my uptempo tracks (everyone knows a fast song is harder to write than a slow one) so he thought it most appropriate my school had that name. Of the ballads I wrote, the most successful (it won the Radio Victory Song Competition and earned an honourable mention in the World Song Competition, both in the 1990s and was covered by two bands, Ltd Company and uk heights) was called 'Be Like This River'. It was also the hardest to write - it was about two close musician friends of mine who had a relationship that broke down and pretty much destroyed both of their lives in the process. I have submitted this for the anthology 'New Music Shelf' and to do so had to make a recording of it, which I did, as a solo piano/vocal piece - you can hear that on my soundcloud pages - h<a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/be-like-this-river" data-imported="1">ttps://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/be-like-this-river</a> - and also the score is now up for sale at SMP press <a href="http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/be-like-this-river-piano-and-voice-digital-sheet-music/20525189" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/be-like-this-river-piano-and-voice-digital-sheet-music/20525189</a></p>
<p>This has meant I have neglected Digitiphony 8 for a week or two, but I am back on it now ;p</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692982017-08-24T12:00:00-12:002017-08-24T21:41:33-12:00Nearly 30 mins into Digitiphony 8 now
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692972017-07-25T12:00:00-12:002017-07-25T18:38:01-12:00First 25 minutes of Digitiphony 8
<p>As promised here are the first 25 mins of Digitiphony 8, which has now become something of a personal record for me in that the longest seamless piece of music I had written, until now, was 'Lying Back and Falling' on the U Kay Hytz album 'Ambients' in 1997. This looks like it's going to be more like 35 minutes. In 1997 I was constricted by the length of one spool of 8 Track tape - now I have no such limits but even on a computer it is quite unwieldy and tricky to keep one piece this length all alive at the same time.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692962017-07-18T12:00:00-12:002017-07-18T16:44:35-12:00Demonesque Ballad hits iTunes
<p>My collaboration with lyricist Justine Perry, a ballad with demonic vibes and overtones, has been released, you can find it at CDBaby or at iTunes, Apple Music etc <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dear-beloved-demon-feat-justine-perry-single/id1260935272" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dear-beloved-demon-feat-justine-perry-single/id1260935272</a></p>
<p>I am also about half way through Digitiphony 8, which is indeed turning into one long, single movement. I am over 20 minutes in, I will post sometime soon with that length but you can hear the first 13 mins still on my soundcloud pages <a href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/digitiphony-8-first-12-minutes" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/digitiphony-8-first-12-minutes</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692952017-06-26T12:00:00-12:002017-06-27T03:43:17-12:00A third of Digitiphony 8
<p>I reckon I am about a third of the way through Digitiphony 8. It seems it wants to be all one movement, but with sporadic short gaps. A reminder of silence in an infinite space. </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692942017-05-28T12:00:00-12:002017-05-29T00:41:23-12:00Six minutes into Digitiphony 8
<p>I am not sure that Digitiphony 8 will have separate movements, as such, so I will just post progress when I reach an appropriate stage. Which, in this case, is about six minutes in </p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692932017-05-17T12:00:00-12:002017-05-17T16:30:12-12:00Music like an errant child
<p>I love the way how, once written, music can take on a life of its own, and like a child can go off to do things that totally surprise its creator. I wrote this tune in 1989 for Director Peter Sykes' Tourist Video about the UK. Like most commissions, I wrote it to a deadline, with not quite as much time as I would have liked. Nearly 30 years later, my long time friend and erstwhile bandmate Chris Broom wrote some lyrics and a middle section for it and recorded it with various people. If you had told me then, when I was sweating trying to finish it in time, that in 2017 it would be sung in a cathedral in Peterborough by talented twin sopranos I would have laughed manically and wondered if lack of sleep was making me hallucinate</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692922017-04-30T12:00:00-12:002017-05-03T00:48:52-12:00Digitiphony 8 has left the station
<p>I have given up fighting it off ! I surrendered having spent a few months working on other stuff and trying to ignore it ;p</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692912017-04-19T12:00:00-12:002017-04-19T16:50:51-12:00String Quartetette No. 7
<p>I have written a new String Quartetette. Though it's called number 7 its actually my Eighth as the series begins with No. 0.5. Don't ask. You can hear it and read the score on the Quartettes page on this site <a href="/string-quartetettes" target="_blank" data-imported="1" data-link-type="page">http://www.mldunn.net/string_quartetettes/</a></p>
<p>I am finally giving in and starting work on Digitiphony 8. A thematic and formulaic idea has been growing in my head, and though I have tried to distract myself with other musical tasks I don't think I can ignore it any more. I am not sure when Digitiphonies are going to leave me alone but my vague idea that writing seven might be enough to retire from this herculean (to me at least) task is not working out. I have got about half way through scoring out Digitiphony 1, and I will continue to score them all out, with or without help (please ?) from others but to just score out music that I have already written is not enough to keep my poor brain stable, sadly.</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692902017-04-07T12:00:00-12:002017-04-07T15:23:47-12:00New Vid
<p>The cover I made of Iain Archer and James Bay's 'Hold back the River is now available on spotify here is a link <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0l28GJweIcqRj2QXMBT5Zi" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://open.spotify.com/album/0l28GJweIcqRj2QXMBT5Zi</a> Also I ran the vid cam when I recorded the vocal to it a couple of weeks ago, and have put this up on youtube -</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692892017-03-31T12:00:00-12:002017-03-31T15:54:34-12:00Hold Back the River Cover version
<p>If you wish to follow me on Spotify you can now do so here - <a href="http://www.mldunn.net/follow_me_on_spotify/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://www.mldunn.net/follow_me_on_spotify/</a></p>
<p>Today my cover version of James Bay's 'Hold Back the River' (with Digitiphonic overtones) is released at CDBaby.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692882017-03-24T12:00:00-12:002017-03-24T20:39:56-12:00Surprise song
<p>Well I was not expecting that. The writer Justine Perry sent me some lyrics on Sunday last weekend, I cast my eye over them, not realising that they would grab me by the... arms... within 5 hours I had sketched out music and a vocal line to go with them and less than a week later I had a finished, recorded song. I love it when my muse gets fired like that ;p</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692872017-03-08T12:00:00-12:002017-03-08T16:07:57-12:00Digitiphony 1 Part 1 Anniversary
<p>It's ten years since I started writing Digitiphonies. To mark the occasion, Claire from Ukay Hytz and I made an anniversary video of Imprison Me (Digitiphony 1 Part 1) which was originally performed by Ukay Hytz</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692862017-02-17T12:00:00-12:002017-02-18T02:21:48-12:00Digitiphony 7 released
<p>Digitiphony 7 is now up at iTunes, Spotify, CD baby etc. here are the links -</p>
<p>Digitiphony 7 at iTunes <a title="Digitiphony 7 at iTunes" href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/digitiphony-7-afterlives/id1206806566" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/digitiphony-7-afterlives/id1206806566</a></p>
<p>The Digitiphony 7 page on the Digitiphony site <a title="Digitiphony" href="http://digitiphony.creativist.me/digitiphony-7.html" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://digitiphony.creativist.me/digitiphony-7.html</a> where you will find a full length stream</p>
<p>Digitiphony 7 on Spotify <a title="Digitiphony 7 on Spotify" href="https://play.spotify.com/album/7cAoYJ7ATvz1oiAUZ9cDd5" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://play.spotify.com/album/7cAoYJ7ATvz1oiAUZ9cDd5</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692852017-02-10T12:00:00-12:002017-02-11T15:51:40-12:00Time for taking Digitiphonic stock
<p>Firstly, I have a new video page - <a title="m l dunn videos" href="/video" target="_blank" data-imported="1" data-link-type="page">http://www.mldunn.net/video/</a> which includes all the videos I have made or been involved in including my own stuff, uk heights etc</p>
<p>In March Digitiphony 7 will be released. When I started writing these musical leviathans I had no idea I would get this far. it has been a voyage of discovery, fear, loathing, loving, illness, stamina-seeking and recovery. Somewhere along the road I decided I would try and make 10 Digitiphonies in my lifetime. It seemed appropriate as they would never have been written without the digital revolution, and the digital revolution would never have happened without the digits 1 and 0. When I had a stroke whilst writing Digitiphony 5 I thought that might be the end of it, but no, these weird (perhaps) musical statements were determined to go on emerging in spite of the frailness of the human body trying to keep up with composing them.</p>
<p>However, having written and recorded 7 of them I think it is time to pause and take stock. If ever these Digitiphonies were to be performed, which I hope one day they will be, they would need to be carefully and empathetically scored out, and that is no small task for just one of them, let alone all seven, not least because my computers, when I started No. 1 in 2006, were far less powerful and I had to assemble them in stages and separate layers as I did not have the cpu strength do record them all at once. In my frantic rush to get them written I did not pay heed to how easy it might, or might not be, to reassemble them to score them out. When Steinberg and Daniel Spreadbury first mooted the idea of building a new score writing program for the 21st Century I was very excited as I knew this would be perfect, with its graphical capabilities and flexible engraving within frames, for scoring Digitiphonies. After 4+ years of development, Dorico was finally released at the end of last year and as some may know, I have already delved deep into it, using it to score out my Concerto for Harp.</p>
<p>So, I have gone back to Digitiphony 1, dug out a motley selection of files and notes and started work scoring it out in Dorico. Due to the above reasons it is going to be a long job. As I get through all the Digitiphonies I think they will get easier for me to score as it will involve less reassembly from different projects, but to get through all of them is going to take me the best part of a decade. I will have to pause frequently as I am not able to stay sane without writing new music, and exploring new musical territory - the eminent composer Alan Belkin is starting an online series of instructional videos in modern harmony <a title="Alan Belkin modern harmony" href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/an-online-course-about-modern-harmony-music#/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/an-online-course-about-modern-harmony-music#/</a> , which I will also want to devote some time to studying.</p>
<p>So things may seem quieter around here for a while - if you wondered why, that is the reason !</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>February 2017</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692842017-01-21T12:00:00-12:002017-01-21T15:14:14-12:00Video
<p>Here is a video of "Faerie Trance" from my album Eklektika. I am taking the opportunity of finishing Digitiphony 7 to musically take stock and use the time to play around a bit with a few things, hence the video ;p</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692832017-01-14T12:00:00-12:002017-01-14T16:08:16-12:00Digitiphony 7 Afterlives full length stream
<p>Here is a full length stream of Digitiphony 7 "Afterlives", which will be released on iTunes, Spotify etc in March 2017. Thanks so much to The Watts Gallery for letting me use G.F. Watts "Sower of the Systems" as artwork.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692822017-01-10T12:00:00-12:002017-01-11T02:01:30-12:00Digitiphony 7 is finished
<p>Digitiphony 7 is completed. it will be released in March 2017 but in the meantime you can hear a full stream on my soundcloud pages. I am very grateful to The Watts Gallery for letting me use the G.F Watts painting 'Sower of the Systems' as artwork.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692812016-12-27T12:00:00-12:002016-12-28T01:37:33-12:00Happy Holidays
<p>Wishing anyone and everyone reading this the happiest of New Years.</p>
<p>The last several weeks I have been working to finish scoring out my concerto for harp, which I finished doing just before Christmas - a miniature version of the whole score is here -<a href="/files/534295/mld-concerto-for-harp-full-1-small.pdf" data-imported="1">MLD_Concerto_For_Harp_Full_1_small.pdf</a></p>
<p>I am slowly approaching the conclusion of Digitiphony 7. The fourth movement is finished and I am about half way through the final, firth movement. The theme for the Digitiphony is 'Afterlives' - some of the postulated places us humans believe we may go to when we die. these theoretical afterlife destinations have had much effect on the way we live out lives before we even get near to finding out if they exist for real or not. The many musos and artistes who have died this year will bethere already. A great party awaits, if there is any justice in the universe. See you in 2017 !</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692802016-11-04T12:00:00-12:002016-11-05T03:54:34-12:00Digitiphony 7 4th Movement begins and there's gonna be 5
<p>I have realised Digitiphony 7 may need to be written in 5 parts. I have started the opening of Pt 4. The ground I think I need to cover before I finish includes the lie that is Hell/Purgatory - which keeps us all in line so that others may exploit us more easily (in the West for the last 1500 years anyway) and also a return to the bliss of our source, Eden, whatever you want to call it, which will be the final movement. Then I'll have this whole after-life thing covered ;p</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692792016-10-28T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:32:36-12:00Digitiphony 7 3rd Movement finished
<p>While I take some time away from writing Digitiphony 7 to learn about my new scoring app Dorico, here is the 3rd movement which I finished last week</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692782016-10-28T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:08:41-12:00Dorico
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/392118/d7ee2c29fc6d4cba9054b3c3abb874780dbfaf10/original/c4h-ip.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6MjEzOXgzMTE3Il0%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="3117" width="2139" />Last week I took delivery of a new notation program I have been following in its conception and design for four years, Dorico, designed by the man who was part of the team who designed Sibelius. I have taken a break from Digitiphony to familiarise myself with this new, fabulous app and I am scoring out my recently completed Concerto for Harp as a way of getting into it. the quality of the engraving is superb as you can see here</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692772016-10-07T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:28:42-12:00M L Dunn Concerto for Harp now on Spotify
<p>My concerto for harp is now available to stream on Spotify</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692762016-10-01T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:28:17-12:00Concerto for Harp at CDBaby
<p>My concerto for Harp is starting to be released up to the internet, today it hits CDBaby.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692752016-09-21T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:27:43-12:00Back to Digitiphony 7
<p>After the deviation of unexpectedly writing a Harp Concerto I am back to Digitiphony 7, third Movement. I am pretty much halfway through I reckon, and the theme of 'After Life Venues' continues ;p</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692742016-08-29T12:00:00-12:002016-10-07T15:03:30-12:00Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra
<p>I have finished writing and recording a Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra. This is another piece inspired by the amazing Anna Quiroga (<a href="https://twitter.com/quirogaharp" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://twitter.com/quirogaharp</a>) who I saw playing a couple of times earlier this year.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692732016-08-06T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:26:56-12:00The Nirvanian Approach
<p>Digitiphony 7 Second Movement is now finished. Continuing with the theme of After Life Venues, this movement explores the road to Nirvana, through troubled expression then negation of self, attempted forced entry through intoxication to an easy, calm, long lasting peace. Well that's the hope anyway.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692722016-08-04T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:25:47-12:00Re-make of Cat in the Rain by The Cast
<p>My partner Claire and I have just released a version of the ballad 'Cat in the Rain' which I originally wrote for the band 'The Cast' in 1978, aged 17. It will be available on all major internet retailers and streaming services, including spotify - you can hear it there by following this link <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3h8ksmKWhga8ox40EdpPeg" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://open.spotify.com/album/3h8ksmKWhga8ox40EdpPeg</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692712016-07-22T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:25:24-12:00Digitiphony 7 second movement in progress
<p>I am halfway through Digitiphony 7 second movement</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692702016-07-01T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:24:54-12:00Studio hiatus over at last
<p>I have finally got back into production after the studio rebuild that was forced on me. Everything working great and the first movement of Digitiphony 7 now finished. Big sigh of relief ;p <iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271902453&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692692016-05-23T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:24:19-12:00Folly Artwork
<p>I have made the photos I took for the artwork of Digitiphony 6 (The Folly) into a photobook which is now available on blurb.co.uk <a href="http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/6876812-folly" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/6876812-folly</a></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="300" scrolling="no" src="http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookshare/app/index.html?bookId=6876812" width="450" allowfullscreen="" data-bindattr-74="74" data-bindattr-75="75" data-bindattr-76="76" data-bindattr-77="77"></iframe></p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692682016-05-17T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:23:56-12:00A small catastrophe
<p>My main music PC has gone down, so I am using the opportunity to try and sort out my studio, something I have not attempted since well before my stroke 2 years ago. So it will, sadly, create a hiatus in my writing while I attempt to disentangle the mass of wires, dust, old bits of gear and discarded bits of manuscript and note paper that have been cluttering up my musical space for so long. It's frustrating, but hopefully will be worth the time spent, and selling a few bits of tech will hopefully give me the funds to get a piping hot new computer. Watch this space... but not too avidly, I think it's going to take a month or three :-(</p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692672016-04-21T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:23:34-12:00Over halfway through Digitiphony 7 1st movement
<p>The concept and tone of Digitiphony 7 is starting to appear in my head. I think it is going to be on the theme of 'ultimate destinations' in the ideology of a few different religions, or even humanist thought (which I guess would have elements of a void ! An interesting idea in music...) I am well over half way through the first movement now.</p>
<p>I'm also working on a Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra, but I think I will keep any sneek previews of that one under wraps for now, it's gonna take me ages ;p Musical Multitasking, that's not me at all ! I am a new man since my stroke, it has to be said. Recovery has taken a while and is still ongoing, but the musical landscape on this side of the trauma is good ;p</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692662016-03-20T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:23:06-12:00New Album Links
<p><em>Here's all the links for the new album -</em></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#ffffff">Eklektika at iTunes</span> <a title="Eklektika by M L Dunn at iTunes" href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/eklektika/id1091567357" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/eklektika/id1091567357</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#ffffff">Eklektika on Spotify</span> <a title="Eklektika by M L Dunn on Spotify" href="https://play.spotify.com/album/2esl0qLmc4QzdO4O9YOo5I" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://play.spotify.com/album/2esl0qLmc4QzdO4O9YOo5I</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#ffffff">Eklektika at CD Baby</span> <a title="Eklektika by M L Dunn at CD Baby" href="https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn14" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn14</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eklektika on Soundcloud <a title="Eklektika by M L Dunn on Soundcloud" href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/sets/eklektika" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/sets/eklektika</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#ffffff">Also here is a link to the first few bars of Digitiphony 7, which I have now started -</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a title="Digitiiphony 7 opening section in progress" href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/digitiphony-7-opening-section" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/digitiphony-7-opening-section</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692652016-03-08T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:22:05-12:00New Album - Eklektika
<p>I have a new album released this week, made up of the various pieces I have composed since finishing Digitiphony 6 and before starting Digitiphony 7, which I started work on yesterday. You can find the album on CDBaby and it should be up at iTunes in a week or two. Here's a link <a title="Eklektika by M L Dunn" href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn14" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mldunn14</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692642016-01-11T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:21:38-12:00Digitiphony 6 Completed
<p>I have finally finished Digitiphony 6. Here is a stream of all four movements</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692632016-01-01T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:21:05-12:00Happy 2016
<p>Wishing everyone a peaceful, purposeful New Year !</p>
<p>I have been pretty obsessed with trying to finish Digitiphony 6 - I am three quarters of the way through the final movement and it's all getting a bit febrile ;p The first half of the movement is up on my soundcloud pages here - <iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237741753&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
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<p>I am a few minutes further in than that but I will probably hold off posting any more till the movement, and Digitiphony, are finished.</p>
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<p>I also have been working on a piece inspired by the work of Mark R. Johnson, who has been building procedurally generated worlds for a project called Ultima Ratio Regum (The Final Argument of Kings). Mark possesses an incredible mind and I have been lucky enough to enter into an ongoing dialogue with him. Quite where it will lead I do not know, but so far his ideas have inspired this piece of music -</p>
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<p>I will post again when Digitiphony 6 is finished, until then I am gonna shut up for a bit I think as I just want to get it finished... I always get like this towards the end of a project... wanna move on but can't leave it alone till it's right.</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692622015-11-17T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:18:52-12:00A little life relief (sic)
<p>A little light relief from seriousness and stuff. I made this in the studio the other night when I just felt light making something pointless and arbitrary ;p</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231905221&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692612015-11-15T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:18:10-12:00Larghetto for Strings
<p>This Larghetto for Strings I wrote a few weeks ago on my Staffpad was played last week by The Georgian Sinfonietta at a studio in Tbilisi</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232487742&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692602015-11-02T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:17:33-12:00Digitiphony 6 Third Movement finished
<p>I have finished writing the third movement of Digitiphony 6. Other things going on in my life are making me slower in producing these, currently. It's frustrating, but I just have to keep beavering away patiently and I get there eventually. I was once told by a close friend that I would end up squeezing my composition into every available fragmented little space in my life to be able to keep functioning. 17 years later that seems to be exactly how I manage to keep writing these Digitiphonies. However I am NOT complaining ;p</p>
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<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231085591&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692592015-10-08T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:17:06-12:00U Kay Hytz Retrospective released
<p>A retrospective compilation/remix/mashup of my former band U Kay Hytz entitled 'Retrospherics' was released last week, you can find it on iTunes <a title="U Kay Hytz Retrospherics" href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/retrospherics/id1042429545" target="_blank" data-imported="1">here - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/retrospherics/id1042429545 </a> or for a limited time there is a full stream of it on my soundcloud pages<a title="U Kay Hytz Retrospherics stream at Soundcloud" href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/retrospherics-u-kay-hytz-retrospective-mashup" target="_blank" data-imported="1"> - go here - https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/retrospherics-u-kay-hytz-retrospective-mashup</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692582015-10-06T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:16:43-12:00Digitiphony 6 Part 3 started
<p>I have started the third movement of Digitiphony 6. It's shaping up to be a slightly leftfield piece in 9/8 so far - it has become my tradition for the third movement of each of my Digitiphonies to be slightly off the wall, so I don't think I am straying too far from the brief for this ;p</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227230195&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692572015-09-10T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:16:06-12:00Digitiphony 6 Second Movement finished
<p>I have finished the Second Movement of Digitiphony 6 - a slow movement bookended by two ambient soundscapes. This means I m now about half way through the Digitiphony.</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223102374&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692562015-08-26T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:15:35-12:00Follow me on Spotify
<p>You can now follow me on Spotify - just click this link - <iframe frameborder="0" height="56" scrolling="no" src="https://embed.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:74lyx121DUDE4yX2Uc8Km2&size=detail&theme=light" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="300"></iframe></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692552015-08-18T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:15:12-12:00Sophie Keats collaboration
<p>I was asked by the Canadian Mezzo Soprano Sophie Keats to compose an electro tune for her Lyrics "Stars and Dreams" inspired by The writing of Emily Bronte. I obliged, and the resulting tune is now up at iTunes. it was also the quickest turnaround I think I have ever been involved in - I sent Sophie the finished master on a Tuesday evening and by Thursday morning it was being aired on UK local morningtime radio :-) Check it out here - <a title="Stars and Dreams at iTunes" href="https://itunes.apple.com/en/album/id1029885459" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://itunes.apple.com/en/album/id1029885459</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692542015-07-28T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:14:31-12:0029th July 2015
<p>I have finished the first movement of Digitiphony 6 -</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216019862&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
<p> Also some new String Quartetettes -</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/112669366&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
<p> and even a new song -</p>
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Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692532015-05-31T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:13:57-12:00Techno tales
<p>The last few weeks has been full of technology for me. As well as my update to Omnisphere 2, which will keep me occupied for years I reckon, I have now become the proud owner of a Surface tablet running the app Staffpad - for the first time since I was at school I am back to using longhand written music regularly for composing.... only now it gets converted to digital data without me having to do a thing :-) here are some little string quartets I have written with it so far <iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/112669366&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
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<p>Back to the omnisphere update, here's a tune that uses all omnisphere patches (even the voice is being treated inside omnisphere). Sheesh. What a piece of kit ;p <iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/208171215&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692522015-05-01T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:13:26-12:00Digitiphony 5 released
<p>Digitiphony 5 is released today at iTunes <a title="Digitiphony 5 at iTunes" href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/digitiphony-5-five-temperaments/id991030545" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/digitiphony-5-five-temperaments/id991030545</a> It is also available at CDBaby and will appear on other internet stores over the coming weeks.</p>
<p>I also have a new website, but if you are reading this you know that, 'cos you are here !</p>
<p>I am continuing to work on an aria by JS Bach (Electro version) for my partner Claire to sing.</p>
<p>I used it to experiment with my upgrade to Omnisphere 2, here is an ongoing instrumental version (in progress) <a title="Erbarme Dich (in progress)" href="https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/js-bach-meets-omnisphere-2-erbarme-dich-electro-instrumental" target="_blank" data-imported="1">https://soundcloud.com/m-l-dunn/js-bach-meets-omnisphere-2-erbarme-dich-electro-instrumental</a></p>
Michael Lisle Dunntag:mldunn.net,2005:Post/60692512015-04-17T12:00:00-12:002016-10-28T22:13:06-12:0013th April 2015
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<div class="news_text">Pond5, media hub, have a few edits from Digitiphony 2 and 3 up for media usage<br> <a href="http://www.pond5.com/artist/Mikedunn" target="_blank" data-imported="1">http://www.pond5.com/artist/Mikedunn</a><br> <br> Zebra1 Music have put up a piece about the conception and realization of Digitiphony 5 <a href="http://www.zebra1.co.uk/check-out-michael-dunns-news-at-z1-connect/" target="_blank" data-imported="1">here http://www.zebra1.co.uk/check-out-michael-dunns-news-at-z1-connect/</a><br> <br> I am enjoying a little bit of down time after finishing my Fifth Digitiphony, also working on a transcription of JS Bach's Aria "Erbarme Dich" with my partner Claire. I hope to complete an electro version of this for her to sing sometime over the next few months... trying to hold off from writing another Digitiphony for as long as I can ;p</div>
Michael Lisle Dunn