Over the years I have had many comments on and reviews about my music. People who have been moved to write about it, either through my website or in reviews, have been generous, indifferent or disapproving. All of it, without exception I may say, has been well intended and, from the reviewers point of view, justified.
However, it is interesting when some unwittingly confirm the intention of a piece of music by their criticism of it. An example, ‘Dockland Echoes‘ a short synthesiser piece that, to my ears, sounds austere and cheaply fake, was how I felt one day when walking around the desolate beauty of the expensive and high rise ‘apartment estates’ of London’s Isle of Dogs. In one review this track was described as ‘plastic sounding, ambient nonsense’. Well, ‘ambient nonsense it may well be, but the ‘plastic sounding’ comment that was intended as a good reason to dislike this music neatly summed up the artistic intention. If I’m honest, the inverse is sometimes the case in fulsome praise that I have received: an intention is surmised where none was intended. But I’ll stick to the criticism for now…Ars longa, vita brevis.
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