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Just noticed I have not updated this page for a while - so here is a rushed year's worth of what I have been up to -
Early 08 saw me still writing for people in Second Life, including DC Spensley's Skywalkers, who put on several spectacular shows using both a new piece written by me and some material from my band, uk heights.
BMG has now been bought by Universal, according to my royalty statements, so I guess go there instead to find the tracks I have with them... have not had a chance to go looking for myself (so to speak) there yet though.
My year was full of singing bowls - I finished the piece for Focus Music... it should be released by them sometime early 2008. In doing the short piece for them I realised I really should make a full CD's worth - they sound awesome and are very powerful, spiritually speaking... I now have a 37 min version all finished and waiting to go up to iTunes etc... yes, when I have time :)
I have also been designing instruments with the bowls... one collection in Second life has been selling well and I just finished a version for Kontakt in December 07... available for sale at www.looplibrary.com . Talking of Looplibrary, I have hooked up with them to provide many of my tracks that I still own the copyrights to, as well as purpose-written pieces and loops. Just go to Looplibrary and do a search for " m l dunn " to find out more. In time I hope to provide direct links to all my products there from this site.
I have also been busy with the band this year - we have been performing both in Second Life and in real life, as well as making a video - for more details please go to the band site at www.ukheights.com. In doing the video we were lucky enough to meet uber-talented young director Emma Biggins and her poet-partner Sam.. I can not see 2008 going by without doing more shared projects, the vid was a complete success, largely due to Emma's talent and expertise. They are currently making a Video for a song that Sam and I wrote... more info at her website www.multistoryfilms.co.uk.
I have also been having drumming lessons ! At my age, glory be... however my tutor Sam Green is so startlingly amazing (www.drumzen.com - but please don't go there and ask for lessons, he is inundated, not surprisingly..) that we seem to be coming to the conclusion that it might just be easier to work together... once again, 2008 will be the judge of that.
One of my pupils at www.musicalaccess.com released his first CD in November to much local acclaim - nice one Chris !!
More of my tracks are now with AKM music where they should appear sometime in 2008.
I am supposed to be finishing an EP of ambient/trance tracks for UKH, as well as possibly starting work on a new album this year - a daunting task that will take much commitment if I decide to do it, so have not reached a decision on that yet...
Have a great '08 y'all...

just when I thought I was going to get a rest I was sent a brief for more tracks for Focus Music - this time wanting ethnic material... it seemed like a good opportunity to wheel out my Tibetan Singing Bowls, so I borrowed more from a friend, to give a total of 11 of the beautiful things.... very difficult recording such ephemeral instruments, but by recording late at night and staying away from noisy computers I managed it, and have more than several minutes-worth safely filed away, some of which has been sent to Focus, and some of which I may use for a longer piece later in the year... seems a shame to waste such a beautiful noise on 60 or 30 second edits... especially as I played them the traditional way (ie running a wooden beater around the edge - a bit like getting notes out of wine glasses by running a finger around the rim) and it takes a couple of minutes for them to attain full momentum... my head is still ringing... pleasantly...

a UKH supporter suggested we submit a track for the forthcoming Cafe Del Mar compilation (catorce) - never one to resist a challenge, and knowing it would have been our departed drummer's dream to have a track on there, we obliged... the track is now complete, but is under wraps until we hear if they want to use it...

my band UKH, or what's left of it (just two of us now) have discovered Second life - where we set up our own little studio/club, and in the last few weeks we have been playing live in there - streaming straight out of the studio. So far we have played to people in NZ, Oz, Singapore, Russia, US, japan and good old blighty, to name just a few... it is gob-smackingly awesome. still seems like magic when it all works.. which is not 100% of the time, but that's living on technology's edge for you... more info at www.ukheights.com or www.secondlife.com (we are called SL Heights 'in-world', as they say..)

more Production/media music in the pipeline, this time for Focus Music - I only meant to do them a couple of tracks by way of a diversion from other stuff I've done this year... but each time I finish they send me a brief for more projects... so far I've done tracks for Kids/Teens, pop-rock backing tracks, war/conflict and 'corporate enthusiasm'. the CD's are due out next year - more info from www.focusmusic.com

I was asked to write some music in a hurry for the Toby Roberts/Poulsen Selleck production "Your Big Chance" - a short film to be shown to 16 year old school leavers to convince them of the benefits of staying in further education.... I ended up with 3 days to write, arrange and record the music for this quiz-show spoof. I'm not actually within my comfort zone working at that speed, but everyone seemed happy with the music... and sometimes things just need doing... in this case I was asked to do it by a mutual friend who I could not say no to.... the performances in the film are (intentionally) hilarious and i have to admit I laughed more than I have done for ages... more info at www.poulsenselleck.com

have just completed the fourth UKH album (or second ambient one), entitled "An acute sense of the Absurd" it will be fully released in the next few months, and should be available at iTunes by the end of the year. Further info at www.ukheights.com

I have been asked to supply music for the upcoming feature film "Lycanthropy" (Director Kevin McDonagh) - in particular for the club scenes (it is a grisly tale of werewolves in modern day Birmingham) - I used existing tracks, re-edited, from my band U. Kay Hytz as well as a couple of new pieces... expect it to be released sometime in 2007. More info at www.rotundafilms.com

Claire from UKH and myself have juts completed a series of idents for Pulse (internet and satellite radio) - in particular for Rob Bailey's show "Pulse Lounge" - by way of a thank you for playing all those UKH tracks last year. Glad to see they are being put to good use already...

I have finished a selection of Ambient tracks and associated edits for AKM Music which will be released soon - entitled "Ambient World" (AK057) - AKM have a growing collection of instantly licensable music... more info at www.akmmusic.co.uk