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the laurel tree

puppetry of the pianist

About Me

became a hermit with sheep, cows and fields out the window and once a triple rainbow and a magic bit with an enchanted forest and a river surrounded by flowers and two highland cows and a death slide where i can take you when it's sunny. i have some songs growing in the windowsill but i have to finish them before i can let you hear because the sun makes me lazy when you can sunbathe naked and there's no one in sight or run in the fields and i start more than i finish...
i possess the rare ability to appear increasingly more youthful as i grow old, thus my true age can only be calculated by cutting me open and counting the rings.
i'm doing a masters in digital composition and performance. it's wonderful although it's ruining my complexion!
THIS IS A SCREENSHOT OF MY LATEST MUSICAL CREATION, A LITTLE BOX OF JOY THAT MAKES SOME NICE AND DELICIOUSLY NASTY SOUNDS AS YOU CAN HEAR IN GRANNY'S GARDEN!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/2/2006
Band Website: sarchasm.net
Band Members: me & my fingers & my feet & my throat & my heart i hope "You're a nutter, that sound is muchos disturbing, unsettling. How did you do it, what planet did you find such a sound? O V E R"
Influences: Sound Design 2

Add to My Profile | More Videosvan dyke parks... the justified ancients of mu mu... aphex twin... leonard cohen... bond themes... cocorosie... dmitri shostakovich... fiona apple... kate bush... the count of monte cristo... goldfrapp... homoerotic swedish pop... ryuichi sakamoto... pythagoras... steve reich... sex, preferably not alone... joanna newsom... claude debussy... ennio morricone... cooking, preferably not alone... thomas tallis... david attenborough... phi... the opening section of wagner's "das rheingold"... colour coordination... rufus wainwright, martha wainwright but certainly not loudon wainwright III's weird tongue wiggling... archetypes... devendra banhart... schumann (piano concerto in A minor)... wilhelm reich... amina... iannis xenakis... running, most likely at your walking pace... cremaster 3... bjork... gregorian chant... elliot smith... the dream of standing on a surfboard... plants... planets... jonathan bepler... schubert (fantasie in F minor for four hands)... alva noto... regina spektor... e-spasm (big up jungle)... pretty hate machine... eric satie... just intonation... UI... sun... learning... lapsus linguae... dancing to ska or shakira... water, the sea, the ocean... la la la love love...
Sounds Like: cybele, goddess of nature, fertility, lions & bees. but some males took the obsession so far that they formed cults and ritually castrated themselves and wore women's clothing. a phrygian goddess and this is loosely based on F phrygian. but fertility goddesses were also cow goddesses, so she's a bit of a cow. as you will hear.
MONOSYNTH ORCHESTRA GEAR!!! ALL WENT SO WELL UNTIL A CAPACITOR BLEW AND THE ROOM FILLED WITH SMOKE!!!!!!!! COMING SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! monosynth orchestra

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My Blog

the ms10 & how i could compose before i could spell...

i am also quite hideously falling in love with stephen fry. damn.however, i've also had the intense pleasure of fondling this baby for the last few weeks so there's hope for me yet......
Posted by the laurel tree on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:05:00 PST

connect & the sounds of starwars!

connect festival was WONDERFUL. being a daytripper i avoided all the previous days' rain and spent the afternoon basking in glorious sunshine in the grounds of the castle, smelling the fabulous scotti...
Posted by the laurel tree on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:43:00 PST

Lauren's Farm Festival 2007

"i may be tall and foreign, you may be small and lauren, i want to apologise for being an annoying faaaaak"yes, sebastian. apology accepted. thanks to EVERYONE for coming to my last-minute-almost-canc...
Posted by the laurel tree on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:13:00 PST

fuck BODMAS let's see her do it with indices & logs

when i'm teaching maths i enjoy the wonder on the faces of my pupils when i reveal that sqrt (-1) actually does exist and that i studied a whole area of maths involving imaginary numbers (whilst conti...
Posted by the laurel tree on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:51:00 PST

my current obsession

is schubert's fanastie in f minor for four hands. it's a piece of music where you can get lost forever within, floating in some kind of superposition between the nostalgia of early childhood and etern...
Posted by the laurel tree on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

Lauren's Song - Birthday 18/2/81

thanks to everyone for making my birthday the best one by far in a year! no seriously, years. couldn't have had a better day for the sun and outdoorness in february and thanks to andi for the brillian...
Posted by the laurel tree on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:14:00 PST

piano session monday 29th january

Hi K***,I begun the first session with J**** and E**** with some gentle Debussy and Mendelssohn as J****was still asleep when I arrived. E**** has always been quite attentive but J**** seems to become...
Posted by the laurel tree on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:12:00 PST

"Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach." Michel de Montaigne

one minute before my alarm is due to go off. wake up. alarm goes off. freezing. sun salutations. running out of time. driving too fast with coffee in the glove box and runny breakfast on my lap. impen...
Posted by the laurel tree on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:13:00 PST

flammability or inflammability?

so one of the regular tramps comes into my shop yesterday, stands at the door for ages mumbling things that i can't make out because he clearly hasn't put any teeth in. i recognise him but can't remem...
Posted by the laurel tree on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:47:00 PST

when i catch my breath you will be top of the list

the new piano instructor is fantastic. working me very hard, which i need, to remedy all the laziness i have picked up over the seven years without supervision. moving my arms for me. why can't my fin...
Posted by the laurel tree on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:41:00 PST