As a hobby, I find baking to be a great way to relax and unwind... and you get the added bonus of a (hopefully) sweet delicious treat at the end. Every so often I will post up some photos and recipes of the more recent baking experiments so that you can also give these things [...]
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A quest for bearding glory…
At the start of my PhD study I decided to grow my beard. Part of the reason for this was because, while I have had facial hair in various forms for a number of years, I had never really let my beard grow out to reach its full potential, and this seemed like a good [...]
Music I’ve been listening to vol.1
As part of this blog I want to be able to share some of the music that I have been listening to that is inspiring me in my own music making. And I can't get enough of Snarky Puppy... Snarky Puppy "is somewhere between a garage band and a collective, with over 25 players in regular [...]
Takemitsu on composing
"As a composer - not an inventor - I don't need patents. Things I think of must have been thought of by others already. That is why it is fitting that I be a composer, since I am not concerned about thinking thoughts that no one else might ever think. I just want to make [...]
New Website and Blog
Hello eventual readers... I had always meant to keep my other websites updated - but it is one of those things that regularly goes by the wayside. So I have decided that having a blog that I can easily update (on any computer, on my phone etc) might mean that I keep things up to [...]
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