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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vowel Play Photo by Chris F on Pexels.com More fun with the Classic Choir, this time with evolving vowel sounds and a lengthy modulation from Fm to Ab maj. And a pun - never a good thing in any title.
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Vowel Play
Photo by Chris F on Pexels.com More fun with the Classic Choir, this time with evolving vowel sounds and a lengthy modulation from Fm to Ab maj. And a pun - never a good thing in any title.
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Classic Choir Ramble Photo by SAULO LEITE on Pexels.com Fun with more new samples - Classic Choir. (My method for naming sketches has been revealed.) Five minutes of piano changes arranged for the SATB choir, then another 20 minutes of the far out psychedelic stuff for human voices. Not bad for a…
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Classic Choir Ramble
Photo by SAULO LEITE on Pexels.com Fun with more new samples - Classic Choir. (My method for naming sketches has been revealed.) Five minutes of piano changes arranged for the SATB choir, then another 20 minutes of the far out psychedelic stuff for human voices. Not bad for a morning's work.
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Test Transmission Photo by Daniel Maforte on Pexels.com Testing out some new string samples, which seem to lend themselves to my glacial style. The first part was composed on piano, the second... I just wanted to hear a very slow chord of stacked 9ths.
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Test Transmission
Photo by Daniel Maforte on Pexels.com Testing out some new string samples, which seem to lend themselves to my glacial style. The first part was composed on piano, the second... I just wanted to hear a very slow chord of stacked 9ths.
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mist Photo by u0414u043cu0438u0442u0440u0438u0439 u0420u043eu0449u0443u043fu043au0438u043d on Pexels.com Another exercise in mood through texture. Trying to get a swirling feeling in the strings by slowly modulating from the F whole tone scale to the whole tone in E. A lot of interesting…
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Mist
Photo by u0414u043cu0438u0442u0440u0438u0439 u0420u043eu0449u0443u043fu043au0438u043d on Pexels.com Another exercise in mood through texture. Trying to get a swirling feeling in the strings by slowly modulating from the F whole tone scale to the whole tone in E. A lot of interesting dissonance. strings sketch NB Big fan of u0414u043cu0438u0442u0440u0438u0439 u0420u043eu0449u0443u043fu043au0438u043d's work,
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quieter and Slower (then Louder) Photo by Aleksandr Firstov on Pexels.com Something modal for strings and wind instruments
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Quieter and Slower (then Louder)
Photo by Aleksandr Firstov on Pexels.com Something modal for strings and wind instruments
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Exile Photo by Allan Carvalho on Pexels.com
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Exile
Photo by Allan Carvalho on Pexels.com
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
sketch for piano and alto saxes Photo by Valentin Ivantsov on Pexels.com There are two notable things about today's sketch: one, yes that is Philip Glass' piano (played by me (on a minikey keyboard)); two, the coda played on alto saxes (all played by me (on a minikey keyboard)).
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sketch for piano and alto saxes
Photo by Valentin Ivantsov on Pexels.com There are two notable things about today's sketch: one, yes that is Philip Glass' piano (played by me (on a minikey keyboard)); two, the coda played on alto saxes (all played by me (on a minikey keyboard)).
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gaelic Voices Photo by Phil Evenden on Pexels.com
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Gaelic Voices
Photo by Phil Evenden on Pexels.com
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another break-out from the modulation lab, which escapes me, but there are some lush chords (and changes) if you hang in there simonlittlefield.org/2026/09/18/1...
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180926 iv KCA 0 strings sketch WTF
Photo by wr heustis on Pexels.com strings sketch Another break-out from the modulation lab which escapes me, but there are some lush chords if you hang in there
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An experiment in modulation that escaped from the lab simonlittlefield.org/2026/09/17/1...
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170926 xi KCA pianos sketch
Photo by PHILIPPE SERRAND on Pexels.com an experiment in modulation that escaped from the lab pianos sketch
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ten chords for ten pianos simonlittlefield.org/2026/09/16/1...
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160926 vii KCA piano sketch
Photo by Gu00fcl Iu015fu0131k on Pexels.com piano sketch Bmaj7/13 with Db9/11 with F#maj7/13 with G#m9/11 with F#9/11 with Ebm9/11 with B6/9 with F#maj7/13 again, then with Bbm7/11 with F#maj7/9 wi…
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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150926 vii KCA 0 piano sketch
Photo by Victor Galicia on Pexels.com
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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140926 vii KCA 0 piano collider sketch
Photo by Justin Wolfert on Pexels.com piano collider sketch
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Listen to the whole work here: simonlittlefield.bandcamp.com/track/downhill #orchestral #minimal #phase #ambient #strings #conceptual #slowmusic #bandcampfriday
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Downhill, by Simon Littlefield
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
For Bandcamp Friday here's a brief excerpt from Downhill, my latest experiment with a string orchestra #orchestral #minimal #phase #ambient #strings #conceptual #slowmusic #bandcampfriday
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
For #bandcampfriday, here is the first movement of Islands, a work in progress for woodwinds and choir #choir #woodwinds #orchestral #minimal #piccolo #phasemusic #processmusic #morepiccolo #islands simonlittlefield.bandcamp.com/track/islands
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Islands, by Simon Littlefield
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
So much for The Art of the Deal. "Berate the guy with the minerals in front of the world's media until he leaves without signing the $500bn contract." Worst protection racket ever. No protection, just one big racket.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It's orchestral It's improvised It's topical Have a nice day #augury #cello #collegno #flautando #improvised #orchestral #percussion #strings #topical #trumpets simonlittlefield.bandcamp.com/track/augury...
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Augury 200125, by Simon Littlefield
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Yes, that's right: 20 hours and 24 minutes...
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It's been quite the year So to make it better, here is 20 hours and 24 minutes of the best music I've composed, improvised and mashed together in 2024 HNY! simonlittlefield.bandcamp.com/album/does-i... #ambient #classical #composition #drums #improvisation #minimal #orchestra #phase #strings
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Does It Just Go On Like This? The Very Best of 2024, by Simon Littlefield
127 track album
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
OK, now it's Xmas... #jazz #harp #Xmas #disco #guitar #bebop #hiphop #vibes #trumpet simonlittlefield.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-h...
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Jazz Harp Xmas Disco EP, by Simon Littlefield
4 track album
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Fenner Pearson @fennerpearson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
With all due and genuine respect to Sir Elton... #25songsforchristmas www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpD...
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The Wedding Present - Step Into Christmas
YouTube video by WeddingPresentVEVO
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The 18th Musician @the18thmusician.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I am excited for my first Bandcamp listening party on Friday! Looking forward to seeing you there if you can make it. the18thmusician.bandcamp.com/merch/dream-...
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dream wandering [ALBUM] Listening Party
Listening Party from The 18th Musician.
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Sylvia Solanas @sylviasolanas.com · 06/12/2024
Bandcamp Friday says get our new album
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
It's not all harp disco #harpdisco #dance #synths #experimental #strings #drums #ambient #prog #bandcampfriday Drone footage by Alex Moliski
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Abandon is what happens when you go away for ten days without a guitar Abandon is big drums lush strings and woozy '70s synths Aban don is . . . OUT NOW #dance #synths #experimental #strings #drums #bandcampfriday #ambient #prog simonlittlefield.bandcamp.com/album/abandon
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Abandon, by Simon Littlefield
18 track album
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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Cary Grant and friend reading a screenplay. "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." -- Cary Grant
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
That's attention to detail - they've even restored Quasimodo www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Trump in Paris: president-elect set to attend Notre Dame reopening
The US president-elect will join 50 heads of state for reopening of historic French cathedral, in his first overseas trip since winning the election
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanks
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
That's one way of describing Elon *u** #zing
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Thanks to Kate Molleson's excellent Composer of the Week on Radio 3 for introducing me to a pianist I knew far too little about, and this short film about Bud Powell made in Copenhagen in '63. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtBA...
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Stopforbud (1963) aka Stop for Bud
YouTube video by Łukasz Turek
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"It's Twitter, isn't it?"
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George Poles @georgepoles.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Well, Sam Annand's 'Cupar Grain Silo' is a very fine thing indeed blackfordhill.bandcamp.com/album/cupar-...
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Cupar Grain Silo, by Sam Annand
9 track album
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Joining Bluesky from X...
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Simon Littlefield @simonlittlefield.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Morning, G. How did you know it was me?
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