A mix of glitch and dubstep created in Logic Pro X.

An old track I'd forgotten to upload!

A dark electronic piece mostly created in Blocs Wave with additional synths from Addictive Synth and GarageBand.

3 Aliens Walk Into A Bar by dacca

Imagine a barren planet seeded with life from Earth - this is the premise for this track. And another. And another!

Thanks to the Drake equation we like to think of life - even intelligent life - as common throughout the universe. Maybe it is.

But as our species, and our robotic/cybernetic/transhuman/A.I. partners, spread to the stars we will seed barren planets with life from our beautiful Earth and help green the universe.

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Image adapted from:

https://www.rawpixel.com/image/441125/free-photo-image-nasa-aerial-aerial-nasa

I'd been watching my daughter play "The Last of Us II" on PS4, a fungal zombie apocalypse survival horror game. The music is not what you might expect if you're not familiar with the franchise. It features a lot of hauntingly beautiful acoustic instruments played by Argentine Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla - I'm a fan!

Here's a link to a great mini concert you can watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNUfqEzGrz4

Anyway, this is a blues rock track inspired by that music and the beauty that can be found in decay. Last of Us doesn't use blues music, but this is what I felt like creating.

It's another of my Apple loop compositions / mixes.

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Image taken from:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/A_slime_mould_-_Ceratiomyxa_fruticulosa_%28plasmodium%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_923285.jpg

This track started as a bit of an analog synth doodle and developed into a tribute to one of the pioneers of early synthesiser music and the iconic Moog synth.

Artwork:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Moog_on_the_wall_art_-_Asheville,_North_Carolina_(2013-11-08_03.15.15_by_denise_carbonell).jpg

The world needs a reset button, it just ain't right...

One of my Apple loop compositions / mixes.

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Art:

https://pixabay.com/photos/cd-cover-fantasy-butterfly-face-2964320/

An imaginative electronic musical journey into interstellar space.

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All instrument, played by David Coutts in Logic Pro X, plus customised drummer track created by David Coutts.

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Image taken from NASA's "Going Further and Farther":

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/121/going-further-and-farther/

I created this track after flicking through the pages of a recently acquired book - "The World According To Physics" by one of my favourite popularisers of science, physicist Jim Al-Khalili. The book is both broad in scope, and adorably small. It looks highly accessible to a non-scientist such as me - I'll start reading it shortly (May 2020).

Amongst the topics is unification - the search for a "Grand Unified Theory" or "Theory of Everything" that combines two incompatible yet highly successful pillars of modern physics namely quantum mechanics and general relativity.

In that search one of the long term efforts has been string theory, leading to M-theory and superstring theory. String theory and its offspring are sometimes regarded as more philosophy than science due to the lack of any testable hypothesis. String theory has a long history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_string_theory

In this track I couldn't resist trying to create a track that makes heavy use of string instruments, in my own 'search for string theory' as I contemplated all the effort that has gone into string theory with no practical result.

And that's ok, the 'search for string theory' is how science works. Deeper mathematical models (way beyond me) and the ongoing search for unification are worthy goals.

If it's wrong, it's wrong. If string theory is a mistake then that's ok - it's ok to make mistakes in science. But we might still learn a great deal about mathematics and the nature of the natural world as a result.

We can learn from mistakes, or dead-ends.

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Artwork taken from: "String theory?" by tailfan, Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7725050@N06/631503428