This may not be the coolest track,

but it is a true story. My favourite piece of music (From among many) is Clair De Lune by Debussy . It inspired my whole musical life and I began writing and producing music from the age of about 15.

My Grandad

was a classically trained pianist. Although he loved to play boogie woogie he would play haunting and complex pieces and this piece of music enchanted me as a child. I would sit underneath the piano as a small boy (where the acoustics go right through you) and wonder how could a piece of music be so sad and melancholic and yet so uplifting at the same time. It was a formal influence on my ambient techno, cinematic output and later straight piano sonatas of my own.

here's a piece inspired by my Grandad's piano teachings on soundcloud. I titled it Ivory Towers and it's a simple piano and bass piece in 3 parts. https://soundcloud.com/outerground/ivory-towers

It was their music

I later found out it was my Grandma's favourite and he would play if for her. They were together for more than 50 years and after my Grandad came back from World War 2 and various tank battles (he was a tank lieutenant who saw action in Egypt, Sicily, Greece), they never spent a night apart.

Richard & Audrey Fennah

It still haunts me and I listened to it today. It made me want to write some new music. There's an amazing piece of graphical scoring using the musical animation machine to this piece which helped explain the mechanics of how it's Supposed to be played. I don't have the co-ordination to play it but I learned how to write with help from various software over the years. I also produce animation and really like abstract work so this is kind of Nirvana for me. My own personal *Fanstasia

Here's Clair de Lune with the animation, piano played by Stephen Malinowski