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 I was asked to take part in an art series by Sam Walton: 'portraits of musicians performing, silently and internally, music of particular significance to them.' You can watch the resulting bizarreness here.

It also got me thinking about this piece Pensiero by Frank Bridge that I learnt as part of one of my viola grades aaaaaaaaaaaages ago. It was the first piece I had to learn that I didn't view as a bit of a drudge, something to get through to pass an exam, the piece was far removed from the  maths-precision cardboard of Bach, I actually felt something playing it; so cheers Frank for making me not ditch the viola.

Oppenheimer video

I made this video using footage I filmed whilst in Cambodia on a Google Pixel 3 using YouCut video maker. We'd just received the final mix for the EP before I went away and the more I started filming short clips of landscapes (just for posterity) the more I could hear the song behind the images and I started shooting specifically with it in mind, it made thematic sense, if I was a twat I'd say the video made itself.  I'm pretty pleased with how it came out though considering it's the first music video I've ever made and I pretty much put it all together on the long arse flight on the way home. For someone as overly critical with everything they do to be 'pretty pleased' must mean something ...I should probably give a credit to Jason Powdrill as it was his seed of an idea that I expanded on, he's probably forgotten about that though. 

Shattercones - Oppenheimer EP

Oppenheimer, the debut EP by new outfit Shattercones is out now! 

Available for streaming and to purchase on Bandcamp.

Artwork by Serge Najjar.