This happened In a fit of creativity one sunday afternoon. I had a need to do something with lots of bold broad colours and heavy duty composition. In all it took about 6 hours.

Its acrylic on canvas and about 3 feet from top to bottom.

I also created a desktop version of it for those that might be interested

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At the start of 2009 I created a simple puzzle game called Efficiency. Despite being a simple project that I put together in a few weeks it turned out to be much more popular than I ever expected.

Over time I got lots of people asking me to fix It's biggest failing. A total lack of functionality on Windows 7.

So here by popular demand, is a new and marginally improved version of Efficiency (which to celebrate I've added a ' + ' to). It should work fine on windows 7, it's got much nicer procedurally generated music and it's even got a few added bits and little fixes.

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Having enjoyed making 'I am' back in 2006 I decided to give the whole poem/music combo thing another go. This time I chose 'A dream within a dream' by Edgar Allen Poe. Like many of the poems by Poe, it's probaly been used and abused plenty of times already so I thought one more couldn't hurt.

This track took an absolute age to put together. Not because it was complex, but because I had real trouble finding the right sound and parts for it. In the end I got a little fed up with it and just wanted it finished.

I have mixed feelings about the final result. On one hand it's instruments are not perfect and some of the sample transitions are jarring. On the other hand it's probably one of the best drum tracks I've ever made. That alone got it on here (you'll have to get past the first half to really hear the whole drum section running)

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For the quiet sections of iO I needed a calm track. Something ambient that didn't get annoying after the fourth or fifth time round. This turned out to be a pretty tricky task.

This track is basically as close as I got to what I needed. It's ambient, it doesn't really go anywhere and it's almost impossible to spot when it's looped. It's alright but it's not as good as the Hectic track I made for. So, if I get a chance (and I go back to iO) I might yet replace it.

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Outsider is one of H.P.Lovecrafts many short stories. In many ways it's typical of his style. A running commentary (in the first person) of a mans journey through a series of carefully described 'indescribable' events that ultimately end badly for him. The horror. The horror!

I quite enjoyed making this track using a freely available reading of the short story as a base (and inspiration). It's worthy of note that this is one of the first tracks where almost the entire drum beat track was constructed a single beat at a time (rather than from sampled loops). This was mainly because I wanted something a little odd and couldn't find any examples of it. if it's not obvious, I'm pretty happy with this one, even after all these years.

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