In July I wrote the lyrics to a new song, “Log Uit”, which I've been putting to music this week. I don't always write directly into Sibelius, but I did for this one, simply because I can't always get my…
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Excerpt from my Residency Diary:
September 29th, 2025
“Day 3 (or 4 depending on how you count) of my residency. I've written a song, ‘Wind & Seed’, in these first couple of days, scored the melody with a bassline -…
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This month I spent another week away for my Arts Tasmania residency.
One of my projects is to write new material for a Dutch/English release, so on day three and four of this 2nd week of my residency I decided…
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This week I wrote the lyrics for a new Dutch song, titled ‘Ongelezen Brief’ (Unread Letter).
The theme of this song is holding love in your heart for someone who can't or won't receive what you have to give. Whether…
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"100% Heerlijk Mens" is an upbeat and humorous Dutch contemporary pop song about body-image and self-acceptance. This video describes the conceptual development of this song, with the an A and B section played as a live demo of the song…
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It’s June 13th, day four of my Arts Tasmania supported residency here in Tassie. I’ve written two Dutch/Multilingual songs in my first three days here - ‘Almost Kiwi’ and ‘Kibbeling’ - and I set myself the…
Wednesday, June 11th. It’s day two of my residency. I am on a mission to write a second song
I start with mucking around on the piano (in Dutch we call this ‘pingelen’), until I have a four…
It’s a brand new year, so I thought I would look at some of the stats on my songwriting over the last four years:
Songwriting Stats 2021 & 2022
Songs started and finished in 2021-2022 51 Songs started pre-2021, finished …Read more
~ Southern Tasmania ~
August 2024
I am beyond excited!! I've just found out that I have been selected by Boston-based opera company Guerilla Opera to participate in their Guerilla Writing Collective, which is a program that supports artists (librettists, composers, and the like) in…
I'm so excited to share with you a little sneak preview of my upcoming single!
THE TRACKER (release date May 30th, 2024) is a blues-rock song, with a sound not unlike what you hear on Elton John & Leon Russell's…
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At the tail-end of my music degree, back in 2022, I had the idea of writing a hand full of songs and placing them in a narrative context ("it's called Musical Theatre, honey").
My initial project was conceived as…
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