David R Broughton[New Age]

Self taught Australian composer and recording artist of original music of various New Age, (published as DRB New Age) Ambient and Neo Classical styles (published as DRB Classical).

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The music was composed Ad Lib... which means I recorded it "in real time" - as I “invented” it on the keyboard, track by track. Some songs have a couple of tracks (different "voices") whereas most are from 4 to 6 tracks. Each track is added in real time as I am accompanying the previously recorded track or tracks. Some additional track elements can and may have been added in the process also.

The number after each song name signifies the number of editing sessions the song has been given. The editing is a “hands-on”, note by note and bar by bar digital correction of any aspect of the music I am not happy with using the keyboard built in digital computerised controls. It is not an electronic automatic process. It is like “music sculpturing”. It is as if, like a Conductor, I would take "the orchestra" through the music interpretation and production process.

It is as though I record "an impression" of the song and then through successive editing sessions the music becomes more as the original perception of it from the Akashic place. In other words, what you hear is more like what I actually "heard felt and saw" in "my mind". The music may not have materialised during "the play" due to "how tuned in" I was at the time to "capture" the inspiration; its complexity or magnitude; in its fullest clarity.... or from the limitation of the recording medium or my skill in controling it.

I can't present the visual/textural/olfactory aspect of the music as the "smell/see/feely music-capture-machine" hasn't been invented on this planet yet, but keep tuned... Any day now... (Epily was quite an “olfactory” loaded piece during its creation - forest and green and humid fragrances)

After each editing/sculpturing session the music is again saved digitally with a new "edit session" number, and put through the production process till it makes its appearance in an album.

The "place" from which this type of music springs is "eternal" I am sure.

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Though some pieces have a "Classical" feel, they were not composed in the "Classical" era, nor could they fit into a general "Contemporary" category. I am having a lot of difficulty assigning my music to "categories". I just think of it as generally "New Age Ambient Classical"... but who cares about that. I was aware it wasn't like what you hear on the radio etc, and I thought of it as "feel-good" music - So I called it "Personal Universe" music.