Richard Laurence

I had previously written 2 pieces for my daughter, Grace.  You can actually find them both on my charity album “A Busy Couple Of Years” as this documented both 2013-14 and the story of our wedding, honeymoon, pregnancy, our first…

So in this post I wanted to talk about a collective of people from all walks of life.  My students.  Past, present and future and all generations will almost certainly affect some of my compositions as they have in the…

At the beginning of the year I decided that I wanted to release an EP for each member of my family.  The Ep ended up being called “My Little World” and featured 4 tracks.  One for my wife, one for…

My wife is currently looking into a new venture to do with writing an audiobook.  As there is a certain amount of crossover between recording music and recording an audiobook I thought I'd throw a few ideas her way to…

Over the last year or so I have really enjoyed playing around with bigger extended chords used commonly in jazz music.  I still haven't quite taken to 13ths but I am really enjoying playing around with 9ths and 11ths at…

In this post I'm going to talk about the recording of the tracks on “Third Perspective”.  I will be covering the mixing and mastering in a separate post as I believe there is quite a lot to talk about.

For…

Back in 2017 my brother, Martin, asked whether I'd like a ticket to see Tokio Myers in London.  I knew who Tokio Myers was because he had won Britain's Got Talent but I don't really watch variety shows so I…

Hi everyone.  It's been a while since I talked about the artworks that I have used so I thought I would address some of the beautiful photos that I had the privilege to use for my music for the springtime…

Sometimes the problem for me is not composing but actually giving my music a suitable title!  

Way back in 2012 I created a mysterious sounding piece of music which presented this problem to me once again. However, I had been…

So far in these musical inspirations posts I have covered artists who still currently release music.  I would say I am more influenced by the fusion of modern classical and jazz/dance/rock genres which is why I am drawn to the…