Silence

Even by this time, however, I had already abandoned work, disowning everything written to this point: this largely due to growing dissatisfaction with my own shortcomings, but also from an intensifying feeling of alienation from the prevailing wider contemporary music scene.
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Re-awakening

In 2001 a musical gauntlet ("write something again, and I will play it!") was thrown down by pianist friend Michael Bell. This, combined with the inspiringly precocious playing of one of his talented pupils, "drew up the veil" revealing music to be beautiful once more, reminding me of what had been neglected for too long. There followed an intense outpouring of work. Without unintended melodrama, it was almost as if, in a single package, a voice "arrived" (at last), with a coherent sound world and an individual musical landscape; predominantly lyrical, often overtly emotional. Alongside came a wonderful sense of freedom from the constraints of external approval.

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