Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
Deborah & William Hillyard
 
Music, Videos & My Studio -

My Music Studio

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The Music I Write
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Music Videos

The Music I Write

Introduction
I have a modest home recording studio.  Most of the music I produce is electronic, using a number of synthesizers and sound modules.  I also still play guitar, mainly Folk and Blues.  I became interested in music at a very early age, getting my first guitar, a very inexpensive acoustic, when I was ten.  Around 1965, I changed this for a used Selmer Futurama 3 electric guitar (c. 1963 vintage, with the white push-buttons and six-on-a-side headstock), and then added a Hofner Congress (449 in the US) acoustic.  This was from 1960 to1962 with the Compensator bridge and the treble clef logo on the headstock.  Soon after I left home in 1968, I sold them both to buy a Landola acoustic that finally gave out in 2009 when the body split!  I certainly got good value out of it.  I bought my first Yamaha keyboard in around 1986.  It was not very good, in retrospect.  Still, I used it for recording in a very primitive studio I setup in my Barnes apartment.  Soon after, once I had my first home PC, I built my first basic MIDI based setup using a soundcard and a Kawai MIDI keyboard.  Finding this totally inadequate, I bought my first sound module, a Yamaha MU80 which I still own.  A couple more followed, and then the whole lot moved to the US and has continued to expand. 

I enjoy a wide range of music, and here you will find a series of videos of music I enjoy.  The selection will change over time. 
Music Tracks
I have included a few extracts of some of the tracks I have written.  Each is in MP3 format, and around a minute long (about 1MB each). 
Just click on a title to play the track;
it will run in your own Media Player.
Sentinel

Dawn

Positron

Arcturus

Trancission
Invocation

Multiversal

Trancenigma

Mezentian Gate

Vector Boson