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roger bolton
composer, music producer
fairlight cmi owner,
a bit of a journalist
& free-range egg
music transforms: echo of a future?
Just Piano & Forte:
Haiku* for Today:
scoring-music-to-picture:
director, camera, editing, music, sound and graphic design:
Four Bar Piano Piece Aged 11 plus new improvisation 50 years later (youtube.com)
Poppy Day: Only when they go, Backs are turned whispers are felt, We then remember.
Back-in-the Day: I once gave ABBA a Fairlight demo, at the time they were working on 'Chess', but the screen refresh after non 4 / 4 bars was too slow for them :-(
Now post-SABR cancer treatment, it feels like a good time to release some soundtrack albums. Both new and old, some are still being broadcast and other ones ended up on the cutting room floor(!) or I have just written for my own entertainment: 'OUT of LONDON 00', 'OUT of the SHADOW 01 &02', 'OUT of SELF 03' and 'OUT of YOU 04' are narratives and already on YouTube. During this process I also collected together five selections of BBC / Signature Tunes out of a total of 137!
Spring: Soundtrack by roger bolton - YouTube
The Visitor by Nicola Krikorian showcase version (youtube.com)
CHECKING IN by Casey Costello release (youtube.com)
email: roger.bolton@gmail.com
social media: @rogerboltoncomposer | Linktree
photo / artwork just hatched
roger bolton | Saatchi Art
experiences
current projects:
Releasing FOUR soundtrack albums, research assistant for 'Inventing the Legacy' 3-part TV documentary series TBC, plus ongoing collaborations with: 'Joined Up Thinking' (Anti-Knife Crime), Rafiki Participatory Theatre (Uganda), Danny Byrd, Neil Taylor, Anthony Gunner, Stephanie Millward MBE, Mason James, Shaun Smith / Ed Vincent, Jake 366 Raisey, Bath Rugby and various NDAs!
recent clients:
NYC Fashion House 'Badgley & Mischka' virtual 'catwalk', 'Tetris' (Lorne Balfe / Pet Shop Boys), 'O Monolith' (Squid), 'Lesson in Love' (ft. Jona Lewie), Marco Migilari (BIMM Manchester / Real World), BBC1 '999' Anniversary and some broadcast content yet to be released...
previous clients:
students, lectures, course content:
BBC Natural History (Sir David Attenborough), Hans Zimmer ('Terminal Exposure'), Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour (Shakin' the Tree), Malcolm McLaren with Jeff Beck (Waltz Darling), National Geographic (The Land of Giants), Granada Television ('The Grand' 10-part drama series Russell T Davies / Tim Healey / Susannah York), The Discovery Channel ('Extreme Machines'), Channel Four ('Electric Skies'), ITV (Undercover Customs), Oxford Films (Baader-Meinhoff expose), C.O.I. / Cabinet Office, BBC (The Late Show, The Natural World, '999', Time Watch, Crimewatch File, Young Musician of the Year, Question Time, The Money Program), Duke of Edinburgh Awards, European Youth Olympics, BAFTA, 'The Story of Painting' (Sister Wendy Beckett), Pharaohs and Kings (CH4 / David Rohl), 'God Bless America' (Granada Television / Alan Gilsenan / Gore Vidal / Marsha Hunt / Patricia Cornwell), 'Ape Man' (NBC / Walter Kronkite), BAFTA, Midem
Bath Spa University (CMT and CM courses). Wiltshire College ('Counselling Skills'), Warwick University (MA Cultural Policy), Conciliation Resources (London NGO), UNDP (South Sudan), Wiltshire Police, third year BA Hons and Mmus students from the London College of Music / University of West London.
edu-attainments
The Malt House, Real World Studios:
Syco Systems (London) and Fairlight Instruments Pty 'European Product Specialist' (Sydney) then back to the city of Bath 1984-1994
The Lodge, Avebury Studios:
20 Episodes of BBC1 drama series 'BUGS' (Brian Eastman), 10 episodes of 'The Grand' (Russell T. Davies / Tony Wood), 'release records' - singer / songwriter / band creative management non-for-profit 1995-2001
Gulu, Northern Uganda:
War Zone CBO 'Children Back Home' for orphans and formerly abducted child soldiers, school fees sponsorships, music studio (five albums and 130 songs), creative arts and drama therapy 2004 - 2008:
2009 transferred to Kampala to form 'Sounds International' Music School: soundsinternational.weebly.com
booking new projects slots in 2025
Currently in Box 'Central', near Bath, UK:
For TV / Film commissions, orchestrations, arranging, co-production, re-mixing also remote sessions / online University and private tuition / mentoring POA
'with good input, there can be, potentially, special outputs'
around the world
Born in Uganda, East Africa then ended up at Marlborough College. BA Hons degree aged 20 from Bath University in Music Composition with Drama, a half-completed Masters Mmus at Bristol University in 'Advance Orchestration and Musical Analysis'. Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) demonstrator, trainer and software Beta Tester for Peter Gabriel's 'Syco Systems'. Then directly for Kim Ryrie (co-inventor of digital sampling and onscreen music sequencing based out of Sydney). A chance meeting with two inspiring graphic designers in the BBC Television Centre Bar led to becoming the 'in-house' composer for the daily BBC2 'The Late Show'. During the HIV / AIDS pandemic moved from London and set up camp at Real World Studios. By some miracle roger survived living in the war zone in Northern Uganda 2004 - 2009 using music and other therapies, including a return to school program for some formerly abducted child soldiers, who were victims of the Lords' Resistance Army. Using music, in various shapes and forms, has enabled collaborating in 23 countries, so far!
orchestral / electronica fusions
A minor 'claim to fame' is writing, scoring, conducting and mixing the first full string session at Real World Studios for a BBC TV documentary to celebrate 25 years of the Natural World. Other orchestras that roger has worked with including: City of Prague Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the London Metropolitan Orchestra, the Bratislava Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bristol and Bath Symphony Orchestras, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, the Finchley Children's Choir (dir Christopher Austin), the Choir of Marlborough College (dir Robin Nelson) and, arguably, 'Jayac' from Ecuador, plus numerous rock / pop bands :-)
song writer / band producer / collaborations
As a session Fairlight Series IIx and III CMI programmer, classically-trained pianist, Grade 8 Church organ, on violin / viola, drums and vocals, roger has worked with an exciting range of genres and World musicians, both well-known, as well as up-and-coming artists. Please use email if you wish to collaborate and drop us a line or send a WeTransfer. Merci. Apwoyo ma tek :-)
'Adopt a Drain' : in Box (corporate social responsibility community project)
'YESTERDAYS' HAIKU TESTS'
- STAR WARS?: Deadly vacuum space, Oribter can fizzle out, Who pushed the button?
- A SECOND READING: Wrath of the Father, The Mother of Babylon, Curtain rip Temple.
- DIAGNOSIS: If C is the word, One out of two get the news, I just can't complain.
- MENTAL WEALTH: Blessed with every day. A gift of light and prayer, Time to read a book. (The Bible)
- INNER CHILD: Behind the stubble, A Man-cub has fruit to bear, Eyed and tricky tale. (Jungle Book)
- POTATOE: Railway observer, Life's window sees it fly by, Or participate?
- FEAR: The way I feel now, Copy of a darkened heart, Pleased you let me go.
- TREE SHAKES: Hit or writ bitten, African beats are programmed, Twice shy recognize
- TICK THE TOCK: Time that is here, Big Ben of life keeps shifting, As sand in a glass.
- PHYSICIAN: Future echoes us, Quantum leap miss the mirror, Who knows what the crack?
- GROWING PAIN: Loss of innocence, VAP, sniff, spliff, makeup and poke, umbilic woke snap.
- CYBERAX: Cancer of the mind; Eating up conspiracies. Smart to swipe off phone.
- DAWN CHORUS: Early worm plays birds, Fun and Games shames the duvet. You win the pillow fight!
- INTELLIGENT: Sow received knowledge, Books, not a net-like Grid, In doubt, leave it out!
- GET TO HEAVEN: Crack in a sea shell, Waves crashing, mountains fall down...
- TAKES A SECOND: Spin, tilt, adjust time, Weebles Wobble and fall down. Snow melts big cities.
- NEAR THE FRONTLINE: 'Mad, not understood, Dogs sniff, turn away barking, A guilty man is yawning.'
- AID OR BOMB: Fighting for some breath, A moment of precious time, History remembers.
- REBORN: Death's monopoly, A game forged at birth for all. A light bulb moment.
- JUNGLE STORY: Tortoise wins the race. Lion roars, Hyena laughs, Shaking leaves fall off.
- SHE SELLS: Tentacles in shells, Try a byte watching TV, Hibernation stops.
- PARTING oF THE WAYS: Red sea breeds red rain, Not from vine, atomic dust, Drones on little boats.
- DECOMPRESSION: How does your world spin? Wise or clicking up air-miles. Dizzy rotation.
- COMMON COLD: 'Flu flew through the trees, Gliding on the breeze it sneezed, A tissue falls down!
- COINED: X-ordinary, Censored in a life time, Then the penny drops.
- ASHAMED: Imposter sin drone, Why you not me on the tree? Not my name in lights.
- MOTHERED: Re-invent childhood, Turn back clocks of memory, Rebuked, not cradled.
- ADOPTION: Dad's army clear drains, Knee brace, walking stick, brolly, Safe aim off the grill!
- FOOTIE: First step in a mile, Shoes slip off past wallflowers, Referee cowers...
- TAXI: Uber to Heaven? Registration incomplete! She has your number.
- WOW! : Rain-shine down on me, Fight no new fight equally, Share and share a like.
- New GEN: Turing of the tide, Restart the best Alpha test, Become with that tide.
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