Blog
April 2026
Passions and Resolutions
My latest composition, Passions and Resolutions, is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and other platforms [...]
March 2026
Parables of Sunlight, my new album
... is out now. You can watch and listen to an introductory video here and listen to the [...]
November 2025
Kingdom of Daylight
Kingdom of Daylight, my latest composition, is out now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon, Deezer etc. Here it [...]
August 2025
Wandering on the World
My latest composition, Wandering on the World, is now available on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, etc. Here [...]
April 2025
Kin: my new album
My new album, Kin, released today, contains some of my best recent work plus two recent recordings of [...]
February 2025
Lucid Dream
Lucid Dream (in memory of Michael Leunig) ‘Nothing can be loved at speed’ – Leunig Lucid Dream is [...]
December 2024
Hopkins, The Heart Falls as Light, and Immortal Diamond
The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins is far too musical in itself to need setting to music, by [...]
May 2024
Life’s Golden Tree
‘My dear friend, all theory is grey – life's golden tree alone is green.’* – Goethe Not so [...]
January 2024
‘joy and hope are valid ways of being’
In her blog ‘Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of [...]
Kin
https://youtu.be/o-XOBAJksgQ This video is a brief introduction to my latest composition, Kin, a duo concerto for cor [...]
January 2023
Joy, Sorrow and the Bittersweet
Shortly after releasing my song Of Joy and Sorrow, I received news of a new book and podcast [...]
A World Sung into Being
Making music, or making art in any other form, is to me not just self-expression but also an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
new release: Siciliano for harp
The latest release of my music is a recording of the first performance of Siciliano for harp, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
November 2021
Climates of the Mind
Climates of the Mind, my collection of orchestral pieces representing various moods and states of mind, is [...]
June 2021
Natural Music
Nature is a frequent theme in my music and in the videos I have made with my music, [...]
May 2021
Seeds
Nature is a constant theme in my music and in the videos I have made with my music. [...]
March 2020
Tuneful? The Importance of Melody
“Melody is the essence of music,” said Mozart. "The true goal of music—its proper enterprise—is melody," said [...]
September 2019
Gratitude
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled [...]
January 2019
how to hear my music
There are now several different ways you can hear my music You can stream it on: YouTube : [...]
July 2018
7 Beats?
Almost all the music we normally hear has a regular rhythm or pulse, usually in a repeated [...]