Tintinn is an instrumental piece for piano by Andrew Charman-Williams that is based on a modification of the tintinnabuli compositional technique developed by Arvo Pärt.
Category: Instrumentals
Instrumentals written by Andrew Charman-Williams and performed by either Andrew Charman-Williams or Spiral Net.
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Myfyrdod 6
Myfyrdod 6 is an instrumental by Andrew Charman-Williams for classical guitar and mandolin.
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Myfyrdod 5
Myfyrdod 5 is an original instrumental piece played on Irish bouzouki [made by Gladstone Guitars] and mandolin [made by Peter Coombe].
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Gentle Echoes
Gentle Echoes is an instrumental piece by Andrew Charman-Williams recording as Spiral Net that is maybe part ambient, part soundscape and part gentle contemplation.
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Banjo Noodling 241024
Banjo Noodling 241024 is a fingerstyle tenor banjo improvisation over a four chord loop. Both tenor banjo tracks were a single take so there’s things I’d probably change or fix if I planned it out fully.
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Incessant Call
Incessant Call is an instrumental piece with two fingerstyle tenor guitar parts. Cockatoos insisted on providing some accompaniment from their scratching on the roof and screeching. The piece was inspired by the constant monotonous calls of the Tawny Frogmouth and Bronzewing.
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Myfyrdod 4
Myfyrdod 4 is an instrumental for tenor guitar. It was originally on an acoustic tenor guitar tuned GDAE but here it is played finger style on electric tenor guitar in CGDA.
Myfyrdod is just a word I like that is one of two I’m using as generic titles (instead of Untitled 4 or whatever) for instrumentals that don’t have other names but is taken from a Welsh word meaning meditation or contemplation.
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Myfyrdod 3
A new piece played finger style on electric tenor guitar called Myfyrdod 3. I wrote it and had been playing it on an acoustic tenor guitar in GDAE tuning but decided to give it a try in CGDA on the electric.
The title Myfyrdod is mainly just one of two generic titles I am using for some instrumentals where I don’t have a name. Myfyrdod is from a Welsh word which seems to translate to meditation or contemplation and the other, Syniad is idea or concept but I mainly just like the way they look and sound.
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Myfyrdod 2
Myfyrdod 2 is a slightly dark, atmospheric electronic instrumental piece by Andrew Charman-Williams. Myfyrdod is one to the words I am using as titles when I don’t have a title for an instrumental. The word (from Welsh) means something like meditation or contemplation.
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Myfyrdod 1
Myfyrdod 1 is an instrumental for piano and organ (using Pianoteq 8 and Organteq 2) by Andrew Charman-Williams. Myfyrdod is one of the titles I am using for instrumentals when I don’t have a title. The word (from Welsh) means reflection or contemplation.
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Syniad 1
Syniad 1 is an instrumental piece by Andrew Charman-Williams. Syniad is one of the titles I am using for instrumentals when I don’t have another title. The word (from Welsh) means something like idea or concept.
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Third Steps
Third Steps is an instrumental for felt piano and pipe organ that has strong influences from ambient music and post-minimalism. Keyboard sounds from Pianoteq 8 and Organteq 2.
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Minor Moves
Minor Moves is a laid-back instrumental for felt piano and cello that has influences from minimalism, ambient, film music and other styles/genres/approaches.
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Rosella
Rosella (or the Rosella Waltz) is just a gentle waltz recorded with 2 tenor guitar tracks and organ (using Organteq 2).
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Cubic Triads
Cubic Triads is just an exploration of a curiosity. I saw a video by @12tone explaining the music theory concept of Cube Dance by Jack Douthett. This explores that concept using just triads to move through the 12 major, 12 minor and 4 augmented triads. Moving between triads only one note changes by one semitone. Through the layering that occurs with organ stops these three notes are fleshed out to a fuller sound. Organteq 2 is used for the organ.
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Blackwood Gully
A first rough recording of a tune called Blackwood Gully played finger style on tenor guitar in GDAE. I haven’t transcribed it yet so a recording was a good way of documenting it. Probably still a work in progress.
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Gentle Breeze
Gentle Breeze is an instrumental for tenor guitar in GDAE.
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5 4 3 5 3 4 5
This is a first rough recording of 5 4 3 5 3 4 5 which is an instrumental composition for a plucked string ensemble of mandolins, acoustic lap steel guitar, tenor guitar and Irish bouzouki. I couldn’t think of a title so I went with a simplification of the time signature structure (the 4 is actually probably 8 made up of 3, 3 2).
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Winter’s Touch
Winter’s Touch is an instrumental piece by Andrew Charman-Williams played on a tenor guitar by Peter Coombe (GDAE tuning). First recording of a brand new piece – I did think about layering it with a few more instruments but at the moment I like it stripped back to just the two tenor guitar parts.
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Morning Light
Morning Light is an instrumental for high G ukulele.
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Banjo Hornpipe
A tune by me without a proper name at the moment on tenor banjo with fretless nylon banjo and acoustic bass accompaniment. A few wrong notes but maybe if I ever record it again I’ll get them right. It’s a three two tune which were often called hornpipes (or triple hornpipes to distinguish them from other hornpipes in 4 or 2).
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The Merry Conclusion | Camberwell
This instrumental by Spiral Net is based on a couple of 3/2 tunes from Dancing Master volume 2 from around 1710-1718 called The Merry Conclusion (or The Assembly) and Camberwell. These are not treated in a traditional manner but as melodies for electronic music.
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Almost Spring
Almost Spring is an acoustic instrumental for mandolin and Irish bouzouki by Andrew Charman-Williams.
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Floating Downstream
Floating Downstream is a partly acoustic, laid back instrumental by Andrew Charman-Williams.
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Hamlel
Hamlel is a partly acoustic instrumental for Irish bouzouki and accordion by Andrew Charman-Williams.
Even though this is the version with revised audio there are still some audio issues so I will think about re-recording it at some point.
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Lazy Sunday Arvo
Lazy Sunday Arvo is a mainly acoustic instrumental by Andrew Charman-Williams.
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Limits in the Key of 50Hz
(Industrial Decay)
Limits in the Key of 50 Hz (Industrial Decay) by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams) is a piece composed with certain guidelines in place. It takes influences from ambient, downtempo, minimalism and other styles and has elements of an industrial feel to it. It is not in standard western equal temperament tuning but in a scale based on 50 Hz which is between G and Ab and is the frequency of electricity in Australia.
It was created from one single, fairly short sound sample with the additional limitations of the sample only being able to be modified by stretching, shrinking, reversing or trimming the sample and by the use of EQ. The sounds are tuned to a harmonic series based on a 50Hz fundamental with all harmonic series notes up to 1600 Hz. Following on from those limits means no synthesizer or other sound source was used with it just being direct manipulation of the sound sample.
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Locria and Beyond
Locria and Beyond by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams) explores the locrian mode before moving to the super locrian and then ultra locrian before settling again in locrian. Partly minimalist in nature this instrumental piece attempts to explore the unsettled and unsettling nature of locrian.
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Lament III
Lament III by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams) is the third in a series based on the lament bass. It is somewhere between ambient and downtempo with a slightly disturbing undertone.
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Waves Upon Waves
Waves Upon Waves by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams) is a downtempo/ambient electronic instrumental.
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Lament I
Lament I by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams) is the first in a series inspired by but not restricted to the lament bass. It is an electronic ambient instrumental.
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Lament II
Lament II by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams) is the second in a series of pieces inspired by but not limited to the lament bass. Lament II is an ambient/downtempo electronic instrumental piece.
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Peaceful Morning Disturbed
Peaceful Morning Disturbed by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams is a downtempo/ambient instrumental. A peaceful morning in a rural setting disturbed by the gunshots of the nearby farmers.
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Ten Pentas
Ten Pentas by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams) is an exploration of ten different pentatonic scales that can be created using certain rules (2 x minor 3rd, 3 x major 2nd). It uses some techniques of serialism, math & aleatoric approaches to create an ambient piece.
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Remember
Remember by Spiral Net (written by Andrew Charman-Williams) is an electronic piece with computer generated vocals.