DCM 027 DCM 027 Environmental music – Environmental music Envm 1 – my 27th album. This Album marked the point in my work where I could say 'I know what I am about now and this, the 27th album is the capstone of the organisation of material and practice, of those five genres or Tranches [to be precise], as the sub genres in my work. Also the point at which I could upgrade my Studio from my ‘Drum Studio’ to my new Isabel Studio. So here is a kind of full stop, a pause to take stock, readying for a exciting change. The next album, the 28th would mark the start of a New Group, structurally much freer, Like a New Horizon opening up – hence the - ‘New Horizon group.’ The 28th album would be Dm 8, and what ever followed that would just follow that, no more blocks like books on a shelf – just music, as it came, for all of my work to come.

had left Art it seems to record Drumming, Drum music, [Dm] - well I didn't know I'd left Art at the time, but things had got quite complicated vey quickly. Right from the start of my having my own facilities I was recording percussion with metal, and loving it - like my 'Metal Bashing' heroes. This I took up in a separate area, the 'Metalshop’, making separate collections of works there, and in another separate enterprise, a phasing music with tape loops was emerging. Some projects seemed to be purely electronic, processed far from their source, they seemed to be separating out, as another Genre. Then emerged an electro-acoustic music, after the fact of a classical music, always buzzing in head. It was time to bring all these projects together. Many already existed as proposed albums. Regardless of album chronology, the Rh catalogue of completed works preserves the actual chronology of that coming together.

Early on, the music had consisted in a partially sorted collection of 22 CD lengths, which I named the 'Red Cherry group' - after a gorgeous friend of mine, 'cherry,' who had offered to keep a safety copy for me. So – an early reorganisation, ordered those Works into now 27 albums - and into my five Genres This becomes- the 'Blue Cherry Group' - what else ?

I would order the albums by genre or Tranche - depending on the degree of change to the initial acoustic sound source , instrumental or field recording. The seven Drumming albums I would put together First, as it came first in my progress, as Drum music, Dm. Then would come the 3 metal shop collections, as Metal Percussion music, MPm. Then came the 5 phasing albums including some now major works, the ‘Phase music’, Phm. Then, three from the new genre of Electro acoustic music, I called 'Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion', MSEP and lastly the 8 albums of electronic music, Em – also with major album length works. Em comes last, though it goes back to almost the start, simply because, in general its music takes the longest processing journey from its acoustic source.

This gave Twenty six albums and a number of unallocated works, many of some interest, and all acknowledged Works and needing a home. As they were for the most part Works from field recordings - they got an album of their own - Environmental music - and a genre of their own Envm. So - all tied up to the moment of asking. .Bring on the New Horizon !

In truth, some of these are the earliest recordings I made after Marehay and these might well have been my Third album, were it not for my Genre Ordering.

Gate Spring - Rh P9. A deliciously sonorous spring on a small gate on a path, high in the Derbyshire Peak District somewhere. Friends and I are on a walk, a stumble in my case, I can't get any further, but I'm fascinated by this gate. It is summer 2OO6, I have not long recorded my fist album 'Dm 1, percussion and sound recording are on my mind. My friend Stephen has mobile phone with a recorder on ( a novelty then) and bids me play the gate. I could not make recordings of my own yet, so every recording was precious, even these two. My own recordings, soon after these, I started to number as 'Rhythms', later as just 'Rh'. There were fifteen recordings prior to the point at I fist numbered my own recordings - just to catalogue them. Only later did it became an Acknowledged Works Catalogue, requiring the inclusion of those 15 'prior' to Rh 1. Changing the numbering would have been a big job, hence the decision to called them 'Rh P' for prior or pre to Rh the 'P problem’ was solved - and my first recording with my own equipment is neatly marked.

Spring Gate 2 - Rh P10. The Second recording of the above. To this day Stephen calls all my music 'squeaky gate music' - an Ironically apt term of abuse for contemporary music in general - not that I call this Cm - it's just part of a cannon that is CM. There is some processing subsequently on both.

In Cabinet - Rh 1. Well here it is - my Rh 1, my equipment had come, so I recorded myself inside a cabinet, wow, now I could record sound, patterns and rhythms, that I had always lost to the moment, thousands of hours of practice lost to the air. Now I could now fix and print them -like a work on paper, yes I had already done that, I was selling the album, but now the means of production were all within my hands.

On Cabinet - Rh 2. As with the above, I now play the outside of the cabinet.

Bench in Storm - Rh 3. Sitting in a local park with my mother, probably that same first day, early evening, feeding squirrels and playing the bench we sat at, something I often did - this time I brought my performance home.

Railing in Storm - Rh 4. A little first landmark, in my own recordings. In that same storm, walking home alone, some new metal fencing by the Brook. I have drumsticks with me, I never left home without them, and this time - that fencing was like a set of tubular bells. Mud up to my ankles to reach this new fence, and soaking wet - I was in heaven - there was nothing I would not do for art, an artist now branching out into – music !

Shelter 1 - Rh 8. Outdoor metal percussion, didn't get collected to the Metalshop albums. Environmental is / was a genuine category of music, that just seemed to leak away into everything else.

Shelter 2 - Rh 9. Same metal shelter, same field trip - very different treatment.

Winster Glass - Rh 21. On a sunny day out, in the Derbyshire town of Winster. I played a display cabinet, and friend later Collaborat0r Maria Finch held the microphone. A longer version of a piece in an MPm collection. I just left it in but, it fits better here than there.

Energy Nervosa - Rh 35. A lovely piece, lovely treatment - don't know where it was recorded, Good MPm, it found its way into this collection. Putting this edition volume together I was reminded of how good the music in here is, it is not a collection of misplaced and misfits, it's a good collection in it's own right. I really like this piece.

Early Spring - Rh 36. First of a series of 3 pieces using a large tensed spring and sticks.

Spring Morning - Rh 37. Second of three pieces using a tensed spring Sticks.

Spring Wood - Rh 38. Third of three pieces using a tensed spring and sticks.

To Be - Rh 62. Deriving pitch and rhythm from scratched, stretched fabric.

Stairwell 1 - Rh 63. From the same Field trip as the Lift and Door recordings of the Early Phase music, I enter a large old sonorous Stairwell – stepping with intent down the stairs – I Play the rail and the resonance. I finish without being disturbed - not easy in a busy Hospital. A classic of this kind of recording. Much later a slew of MPm albums would follow in its wake.

Stairwell 2 - Rh 69. Another Stairwell piece, but treated quite differently.

Chair Kf - Rh 71. For the life of me I can't remember what Kf means - but it is not the name of a restaurant ! At this point in time I shelved planes for this [the 27th] album, for an urgent need to press on with new work, this already being old hat. That project, my 28th album was Dm 8 - 'Inventions for Tibetan Drum'. Quite sometime later I completed this Album with 4 stray pieces I hadn't got a home for.

18. Zenith - Rh 272. Driving metallic rhythm.

19. Zenach - Rh 275. Driving metallic rhythm.

20. Einzsnenamb - Rh 290. A Piece related to Einzstuck – Rh 251.

21. Einambsin A - Rh 295. Another piece related to Einzstuck – Rh 251.


The DCM album numbers are volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my works, in order of Completion.


The Rh Catalogue for the Blue Cherry Group


Rh P01 BBC Interview music [05’32] Dm 2

Rh P02 Inventions for Shamanic Drum 1 [02’59] Dm 1
Rh P03 Inventions for Shamanic Drum 2 [09’58] Dm 1
Rh P04 Inventions for Shamanic Drum 3 [09’50] Dm 1
Rh P05 Inventions for Shamanic Drum 4 [12’20] Dm 1
Rh P06 Inventions for Shamanic Drum 5 [10’25] Dm 1
Rh P07 Inventions for Shamanic Drum 6 [12’03] Dm 1

Rh P08 Drum Sonata No. 5 [16’23] Dm 2

Rh P09 Gate Spring music 1 [01’17] Envm 1
Rh P10 Gate Spring music 2 [01’20] Envm 1

Rh P11 Sonata for Drum No. 1 [07’45] Dm 2
Rh P12 Sonata for Drum No. 2 [13’35] Dm 2
Rh P13 Sonata for Drum No. 3 [11’05] Dm 2
Rh P14 Sonata for Drum No. 4 [08’50] Dm 2]

Rh P15 Inventions for Shamanic Drum 3A
[12’29] Dm 1

Rh 001 In Cabinet [01’53] Envm

Rh 002 On Cabinet [02’40] Envm

Rh 003 Bench In Storm [01’17 ]Envm

Rh 004 Railings in Storm [06’18] Envm

Rh 005 Bowl [06’41] MPm 1

Rh 006 Step Back [06’54] Dm 3

Rh 007 Box [08’29] MPm 1

Rh 008 Shelter 1 [00’55] Envm

Rh 009 Shelter 2 [00’55] Envm

Rh 010 Cabinet [03’10] MPm 1

Rh 011 Case [04’26] MPm 1

Rh 012 Splash [04’45] MPm 1

Rh 013 Roll [03’43] Dm 3

Rh 014 Skin tight [04’47] Dm 3

Rh 015 Vale [02’31] Dm 3

Rh 016 Sky Side full of Echoes [14’27] Dm 3

Rh 017 Shake a Loop [01’53] Dm 3

Rh 018 Tithe [01’48] MPm 1

Rh 019 Tithe 2 [02’23] MPm 1

Rh 020 Kline [01’15] MPm 1

Rh 021 Winster Glass [01’55] Envm

Rh 022 Impromptu Glass [01’55] MPm 1

Rh 023 Back Hand [04’32] MPm 1

Rh 024 Chyme [02’53] MPm 1

Rh 025 Kup [04’49] MPm 1

Rh 026 Outbeat [02’03] MPm 1

Rh 027 Frome [03’07] MPm 1

Rh 028 Ligature [01’31] MPm 1

Rh 029 Floor time [01’34] MPm 1

Rh 030 Vessel [01’53] MPm 1

Rh 031 Double in Mind [04’09] MPm 1

Rh 032 Slip in Time [05’44] MPm 1

Rh 033 Mode [08’19] MPm 1

Rh 034 Rain Dance [03’34] Dm 3

Rh 035 Energy Nervosa [03’34] Envm

Rh 036 Early Spring [05’40] Envm

Rh 037 Spring morning [06’06] Envm

Rh 038 Spring wood [03’05] Envm

Rh 039 Bouree [03’15] MPm 2

Rh 040 In A Moment [02’46] Dm 3

Rh 041 Band width [10’09] Dm 3

Rh 042 Into the Fray [11’05] Dm 3

Rh 043 Sheet Steel [02’33] MPm 2

Rh 044 Take 9 [12’26] Dm 3