Joy, Sorrow and the Bittersweet
Shortly after releasing my song Of Joy and Sorrow, I received news of a new book and podcast that seem to be very much in the [...]
January 2023
A World Sung into Being
Making music, or making art in any other form, is to me not just self-expression but also an act of giving. What I give, or hope [...]
December 2022
What love does to you
My new release, ‘Of Love’, joins ‘Of Joy and Sorrow’ and ‘Of Beauty’ to complete my Three Songs of Kahlil Gibran: https://youtu.be/lOSTD2f8dzs Kahlil Gibran (1883 – [...]
November 2022
A song about Tasmania? ‘Half-Heard’, words by CJ Koch, music by Neil Buckland
My latest release is ‘Half-Heard’, a song that is (I think) about Tasmania. To decide for yourself whether that’s true or not, read on – but [...]
new release: Siciliano for harp
The latest release of my music is a recording of the first performance of Siciliano for harp, beautifully played by Tijana Kozarčić in the rich [...]
October 2022
New recording of The Lay of the Last Survivor
Video and audio recordings of a new performance of my song The Lay of the Last Survivor have now been released – its first professional performance [...]
February 2022
Is beauty real?
“‘The peacock’s tail makes me sick!’ said Charles Darwin. That’s because the theory of evolution can’t explain why nature is so beautiful… Taking inspiration from Darwin’s [...]
November 2021
Climates of the Mind
Climates of the Mind, my collection of orchestral pieces representing various moods and states of mind, is now an album, available on Spotify, Apple Music, [...]
June 2021
Natural Music
Nature is a frequent theme in my music and in the videos I have made with my music, and I regard my music as natural music. [...]
May 2021
Seeds
Nature is a constant theme in my music and in the videos I have made with my music. My music is natural music, in the sense [...]