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Word up, homies. Welcome to the brand new blogspot for Elbisso P. Miry, a person who is me. It's not my real name, nor does it have any relevance to what I do. It just sounds really cool. You'll see why I'm using it shortly.

This is a new blog to document the trials and tribulations of a budding composer of music for games, TV and film. I felt it was necessary to have such a blog to ensure that I have somewhere for potential clients to come and hear my work, as well as gain some kind of insight into who I am and how I work.

After many years gigging in various local bands (ha, everywhere's local!) and slaving away in rubbishy office jobs, it became apparent that I was pissing my life away and thus I went back to school to learn more about the only thing I've ever been any good at: music. I am currently in my second year of the Music Practice course at UCLan and it's all going swimmingly. The course focuses on experimental music and has already expanded my musical palette 100-fold (at a guess). I will post links to some of the works that I have completed there in a future (if not the next post). During the past few months I've decided that, instead of a teaching career, I aim to move into composing music for money, primarily in games but also in TV and film. I've already had to chance to work with some of the Games Design students at UCLan and the fruits of that collaboration will be debuted in a future blog.

Gaming hasn't been a lifelong passion for me, though music has. I recently returned to the XBOX 360 a couple of years ago, after abandoning the SEGA Megadrive. The music that I hear in some of the titles I've been playing is phenomenal and something I can see myself making. I recently played Borderlands and it's soundtrack is one of my favourite albums. It's composers, Jesper Kyd, Raison Varner, Sascha Dikiciyan and Cris Velasco have produced an amazing piece of work that stands alone from the game. You can also see why I'm going with Elbisso P. Miry as a psuedonym.

Over on the right there you will see my face. It's lovely, isn't it? Do I look like an Elbisso?

So, more content coming soon... including links to music... once I figure out how to do it.

Peas out.