DCM 019 Canticle for Large Bell - Electronic music, Em 1 - my 19th album The Album that founded my 5th Genre or Tranche - 'Electronic music'. The first of three volumes of Em foundational Studies, albums Em 1 - 3. Em 1 is most noted for the ‘Canticle for Large Bell – Rh 52.’

Acho - Rh 51. My 51st piece of [acknowledged] music, and a new Tranche of musical investigation began, Electronic music, Em or music that is processed beyond an obvious point of familiarity with it's Instrumental or Environmental source. This first Piece, Acho, is a case in point. Using conventional echoes [which had I had started to use in my Drum music, on 'Sky Side Full of Echoes' – Rh 16], you will have parameters for all manner of partialities and proportions. Here in Acho, I arranged it so that the echo's decay was hugely longer than that which it was an echo of. This would result in a vast build up of playing out layers, complexity undreamt. This is when I first discovered that the sonic equivalent of Strobing, can cause Epileptic fits in photosensitive Epileptics like me. Ihis modified version of that piece dose not mow cause Epileptic symptoms in me, but if you are Epileptic, please be aware this possibility. The name Acho then, is for a species of Echo, not found in nature.

Canticle for Large Bell - Rh 52. A signature piece for me, my world turned about it's axis with this work. I have had a long relationship with the bell harmonics. I once heard, it must have been, a Work by Jonathan Harvey, involving Bells and Electronics, which flattened me ! Also. with the muffled bells at the funeral of Lady Dianna – since which I have had an insatiable passion to record and manipulate bell harmonics. To make music from them. A Canticle, is a devotional work for voices, Struck, tuned metal is said to have a 'Voice'. I have then co-opted the Word 'Canticle' to name a secular piece for the Voices [or Voice] of Struck metal. I would do the same in the pieces I made for Coventry Cathedral - 'The Coventry Canticles’ - album Em 26 –and again in the vast 'Rothko Triptych,’ album Em 36 - some years later.

Melody [1] - Rh 53. Generating tones to produce a tiny fragment of melody. The shortest piece I ever made, by a country mile.

Stralla - Rh 56. A piece created with Electric Bass, one of many at the time recorded with 'Siouxsie' my trusted, Black Fender Fretless.

Kolliden Wha - Rh 68. Ooh painful ! Constructed from the sounds of a smallish set of tubular bells, this work screams at you, with an altissimo and volume that could damage your ear drums on headphones, less landmark than landmine. I was experiencing a whole new world of experimentation. The wonderful coinage 'Wha' - gave it's name to my first hour long piece 'Wha –Rh 120', on album Em 5, also built with the same tubular bells. Other Tubular Bells’pieces can be found in my early Metal Percussion album, MPm 3, Tubular 1, 2 and 3 – Rh 65, 66 and 67.

Melody [2] - Rh 73. Same thing as Melody [1] really, but a bit longer.


An Early reorganization of my music research interest defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Case Electronic music. - Music taking a long processing detour from an original acoustic source – by convention Em.

My 19th to 26th albums collect together the first eight dedecated Em albums in a block, one of 5 blocks, placed like books on a shelf- in an overarching 'Group' of my first 27albums. Five Blocks for the Five Tranches - as they were founded (more of less) - five sets of studies and pieces, as my Foundational Group 'Blue Cherry' [after a friend]. The foundation stone the rest of my music is built on - in four further Groups.

The Eight Em albums in the Blue Cherry Group are : Three Volumes of quite advanced studies; Em 1 Canticle for large bell – most noted for its title piece, using the ‘voices’ of bell harmonics; Em 2 Basspoint – mysymphonic outing for Bass; and Em 3 Cleo – noted for the title piece - Cleo. Next to to those are five volumes of album lenth themed sets and pieces; Em 4 Callisto – two lunar lanscapes, subtitled ‘The Moons of Jupiter Vol 1’; Em 5 WHA – an hour long outing for asymetrically phased Tubular Bells; Em 6 Cepheid - a space odyssey; Em 7 Dark Night Of The Soul – a huge electronic tone poem; and Em 8 Europa – two more lunar landscapes - ’Tthe Moons of Jupiter vol 2.’

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion. Last of the five is Electronic music - Music taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source – by convention Em.

The DCM album numbers are volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2018. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my works, in order of Completion.