Jim Simm

1. The Denizen Manifesto. Indoctrination Tapes.

Book available on Amazon.

2. 5 Cityscapes (I turn my back to the water)

Music for piano.

I biopic of The Smiths' Morrissey.

I managed about 20 minutes.

If things were that bad in Manchester at the time, then no wonder it was worse elsewhere!

I locked onto the term "Style Sheet" as something that states in an idiosyncratic way my concerns in advance of composing a project, or a way to begin a project.

First of all we need to begin with the central concern of the music. That is, whether that is harmonic, rhythmic, or conceptual, for example.

Secondly, what variations there are of this. A cross-rhythm, a harmonic variation, a melodic variation, for example, used in the composition process.

After that, there are music-specific concerns; scale/key concerns for example.

In my Style Sheet, I state my interest in Octonic Scales. Not the one defined just as the Octotonic Scale (i.e. the two consisting of alternating tones and semitones). Octonic Scales are any made up of four of each, tones and semitones, in any order.

Next, for me, rhythm. I don't think of rhythm as something that risks the "dance", taking my music away from abstraction I desire to achieve.

For me currently, this involves 'colours' which are musical intervals, or 'binaries' or two note harmonies.

How these colours exist within an eight note 'octonic' tonality.

How 'core rhythms' work, and so on.

All very simple with just a rudimentary musical knowledge.

I always hope for a relaxed time for creative work.

So, I've written a Style Sheet for the Cityscapes project. Now it's time to use the sheet to create my first set of pieces.

I'm a composer, and I have a growing Patreon presence.