Me playing Max Richter’s ‘Horizon Variations’ (from the album The Blue Notebooks).
I like this piece a lot, and it is quite easy. But then everything is easy once you know.
The UK Sound
Live at Diabolical Mansions, Tottenham, November 2011. Jon Hopkins, Vangelis, Markus Güntner, David Parsons, Bent, Iasos, Röyksopp, Blithe Field, Chris Spheeris, Mind Over Matter, Sounds From The Ground, Cypress Hill, Dinka, Underworld, Banco de Gaia, King Kitch, Morphadron, and Sola Rosa were unable to attend, but their music was looped, sampled, warped, mixed, folded, bent, and mutilated by bitfield.
Rock This Place
Live in London, featuring Liquid Mind, Markus Güntner, Underworld, Terra Ambient, View To The Future, Unkle, Steve Roach & Ron Sunsinger, Ashra, Banco de Gaia, Sounds From The Ground, Michael Stearns, Morphadron, David Parsons. Do not take with other medication.
Abandoned Cities
If you like this music, we are available for childrens’ parties or wedding discos. Ideally, really caned weddings.
Angel Point
Pretty relaxed music. Containing Markus Güntner, Klaus Wiese, Mathias Grassow, The Harmonic Choir, Oöphoi, Huun-Huur-Tu, the Bulgarian Voices Angelite, Steve Gorn, David Parsons, Marconi Union, M83, Rumi, Hafiz, and some Tibetan singing bowls.
Pärty mix tape
This is a special mix tape I made for Rachel to demonstrate why I should not be allowed near the music at parties. Or Pärties.
Contents:
00:00 - 04:08 Henryk Górecki - Three Pieces in the Old Style: III
04:09 - 08:02 Jonny Greenwood - Open Spaces (from There Will Be Blood)
08:03 - 15:39 Arvo Pärt - Collage on B.A.C.H.
15:40 - 23:56 Henryk Górecki - Harpsichord Concerto
23:57 - 27:30 György Ligeti - Continuum for Harpsichord
27:31 - 29:19 Max Richter - Horizon Variations
29:20 - 36:13 John Adams - Loops and Verses (from Shaker Loops)
36:14 - 42:22 Steve Reich - The Four Sections IV: Full Orchestra
42:23 - 46:34 John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine (from Two Fanfares For Orchestra)
46:35 - 54:56 Eric Whitacre - Cloudburst
Flicker Frequency
Recorded live and exclusive at bitfield’s Cornish studios, featuring music by Markus Güntner, Michael Stearns, Brannan Lane, David Parsons, Steve Roach, Pressure of Speech, Jon Hopkins, Radiohead, Ólafur Arnalds, Iasos, Vas, and William Orbit. May cause awesomeness.
(May also take a while to download)
Around Grimshall
This is my Dad’s house and where I mostly grew up. It has lots of garden and an orchard and fields and woods, and a stream. I love it now, but I guess when I was a teenager I thought it was about the most boring place in the universe :D
A super garden seat that my Dad made. I like to sit out here in the morning sunshine with my coffee and leaf through New Scientist or watch the little birds coming to the kitchen door looking for breakfast.
I spent lots of my youth roaming around the neighbouring fields and valleys, looking for (a) excitemint, (b) drink, or (c) girls. I suppose I did not find much of any of them, so now I make sure I bring some of all three with me when I visit ;D
Wizzo poppies in the garden.
And so the curfew tolls the knell of another parting day and the moping owl does to the moon complain, of such as wandering near her secret bower, molest her ancient solitary reign (potry).
(Originally posted 2006-06-18)
Daffodils
I came across this while spring-cleaning my computer. A very early attempt at calligraphy! (click on the picture for larger version)
On The Nature of Daylight
DJ The Major is away on holiday at the moment soaking up tropical rays and dancing the conga with beach beauties, and so on, hence his absence from this stereophonic sound recording. It is very snowy here so I have been shivering over a candle and wearing my coat and gloves indoors, which makes mixing ambient techno a bit difficult because of my huge, wool-clad sausagey fingers. The secret is to use a massive mouse!
bitfield - On The Nature of Daylight
Unwrap and enjoy William Orbit, Vidna Obmana, Pass Into Silence, Spacecraft, Michael Stearns, Liquid Mind, Iasos, David Parsons, Markus Guentner, Marconi Union, KLF, View To The Future, Jonn Serrie, Freezone, Dakini Mandarava, A Small Good Thing, Jon Hopkins, Radiohead, NuNRG, The Gyuto Monks, Harold Budd, Hemisphere, and Max Richter.
