by Michael Grimes | Aug 2, 2020 | My music
I sometimes record snippets of musical ideas, either played into my phone or notated on paper or in MuseScore. They usually stay there, but occasionally I dig them out and try to make something out of them. I did that a few weeks ago and settled on this snippet, which...
by Michael Grimes | May 8, 2018 | My music
Last week I wrote about how Logic Pro X helps me release ideas from my head in a way I couldn’t before and turn them into more-or-less fully-realised compositions. Butterflies is one of those, which I finally let fly in the wild on Soundcloud recently....
by Michael Grimes | Apr 28, 2018 | My music
The image here is of the unfinished Foreshore Freeway Bridge in Cape Town. Thankfully, none of my unfinished projects have been as bold, as expensive or as public as that; but they do leave me with a profound sense of failure. The problem, though – and a reason they...