Super cute child squatting while looking at big model planes

Please Sponsor Me In Ducktober For Mental Health

This October I will be taking the Ducktober cold water challenge to improve my own mental health whilst fundraising to help others improve theirs. All funds raised will go to Waves of Wellness (WOW) Foundation to support their mental health surf therapy programs. I did their Surf Therapy program in Bondi last year to help me with the grief over the death of my parents, and it’s really excellent so I want to support it.

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Emotional Turmoil

My artistic vision for this work was to create a through-composed track using melodic riffs that came to me while going about daily life and represented how I was feeling at the time. I was partly inspired by Paul McCartney waking up with the early stages of Yesterday in his sleep. I deliberately didn’t think much about traditional compositional structures like harmonic progression, pentatonic melodies or 8/16 bar phrases, so the result is very experimental and relatively unstructured.

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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five: The Message album art with Remix Heaven

Remix Heaven

The big day has finally arrived and it’s time to record my Live Loop performance of God Is Smilin’ On You. Most of the performance is spontaneous and improvised, but I had some specific ideas about the start and end of the track, and a few lyrical phrases I really wanted to include.

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