Michael's Music Room

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Some of my Original Compositions

These are clips of my work and not the full track.

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Hannah the Musical - Just What I Wanted
Hannah receives her birthday present of a locket.
(Live soloist with General MIDI orchestral accompaniment).
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds.


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Hannah the Musical - Romance
Hannah finds love at first sight.
(Live soloist with General MIDI orchestral accompaniment).
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds.


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Hannah the Musical - My New Dawn
Finale - Hannah sings of hope and of her future.
(Live soloist with General MIDI orchestral accompaniment).
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds.


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Organ Celebration for St. Michael's Church
Composed for the Centenary Celebration of St. Michael's Church Swansea January 2006.
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds.


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Footsteps Through Time
Composed for my marriage ceremony and blessing.
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds.


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Son of God (Church rock musical). Coming Coming  

Music In My Soul (Youth group stage musical).

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June Days. Coming Coming  

Some of my Musical Arrangements

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Handel Organ Concerto in F (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) 1st Movement.
This performance prepared by Michael using the Garritan Personal Orchestra.
Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds.


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Handel Organ Concerto in F (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) 2nd Movement.
This performance prepared by Michael using the Garritan Personal Orchestra.
Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds.


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O Come All Ye Faithful
My arrangement includes original dialogue written by myself. This arrangement was published on the Garritan christmas CD Volume 4 2007
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Selection of Hymns (Organ)
Popular during my time as Head Choir Boy during the 1950's. I recorded this using the organ of Garritan Personal Orchestra.


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Overture 'The Marriage of Figaro'  by W.A. Mozart
Presently under preparation using Garritan Personal Orchestra.

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My Musical Instruments

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Violin handmade in 1979 by a Welsh violin maker.
Knight overstrung upright piano.
Hohner Chromatica Gold 3-Octave Harmonica

Suzuki Chromatix SCX48 3-Octave Harmonica
Yamaha PSR 2100 General MIDI keyboard.

My Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
I built my own computer which has the following specifications.

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Music is a major feature of my system and as such I aimed to eliminate as much system noise as possible. I built in water cooling for my processor, the Northbridge chip and the graphics card. Apart from the PSU (below) my system is fanless and near silent.
Water Cooling: Custom - Zalman Reserator resevoir with EK blocks
Power Supply Unit (PSU) Thermaltake Toughpower 125 mm horizontal fan, 600 Watts
Main Board: Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3LR
Central Processing Unit (CPU):

Intel Pentium 4 Quad
Random Access Memory (RAM): Crucial, 4 Gigabytes.
Hard Drive:

Samsung Spinpoint 500 Gigabyte.
Graphics Card

Asus EN9500GT

Music and CD Authoring

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Operating System:

Microsoft Windows Vista
Ubuntu (Linux Distribution) Latest Version.
Sound Sample Libraries:

Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO)
Garritan Jazz and Big Band (JABB)
Garritan Concert and Marching Bands (COMB)
Notation Program: Finale 2010
Sequencer: Cakewalk Sonar Producer 8
Audio Wave Editing: GoldWave
CD Authoring:

Sony CD Architect Platinum Edition.
Music Player: Quintessential

 

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