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ALBUM COVER ARTISTS NEEDED

I am looking for artists and photographers for several upcoming paid album covers:

*Collage artist
*Film photographer (no digital)
*Abstract painter

If you (or somebody you know) fits this bill, SHARE THIS or get in touch:

info@chrishopecomposer.co.uk

Real artists. No Al. Paid.

#chrishopecomposer #albumcover #artist #photographer #paid

🎨
ALBUM COVER ARTISTS NEEDED

I am looking for artists and photographers for several upcoming paid album covers:

*Collage artist
*Film photographer (no digital)
*Abstract painter

If you (or somebody you know) fits this bill, SHARE THIS or get in touch:

info@chrishopecomposer.co.uk

Real artists. No Al. Paid.

#chrishopecomposer #albumcover #artist #photographer #paid

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Recording new LOST SOUND CLUB album…

… on my childhood piano, which is lovely and magic and sad and exciting and layered with memories and old songs and ghosts of melodies…

#chrishopecomposer #composerlife #recording #piano #newalbum

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Recording new LOST SOUND CLUB album…

… on my childhood piano, which is lovely and magic and sad and exciting and layered with memories and old songs and ghosts of melodies…

#chrishopecomposer #composerlife #recording #piano #newalbum

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RECORDING 🔴

Never recorded on my childhood piano before…
Adding some extra little touches to the new LOST SOUND CLUB album… exciting!

#chrishopecomposer #recording #newalbum #lostsoundclub #music

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RECORDING 🔴

Never recorded on my childhood piano before…
Adding some extra little touches to the new LOST SOUND CLUB album… exciting!

#chrishopecomposer #recording #newalbum #lostsoundclub #music

🎨
ALBUM COVER ARTISTS
I am looking for artists and photographers for several upcoming album covers:
*Collage artist
*Film photographer (no digital)
*Abstract painter
If you (or somebody you know) fits this bill, get in touch:
info@chrishopecomposer.co.uk
Real artists. No Al. Paid.

#chrishopecomposer #albumcover #artist #photographer #opportunity

🎨
ALBUM COVER ARTISTS
I am looking for artists and photographers for several upcoming album covers:
*Collage artist
*Film photographer (no digital)
*Abstract painter
If you (or somebody you know) fits this bill, get in touch:
info@chrishopecomposer.co.uk
Real artists. No Al. Paid.

#chrishopecomposer #albumcover #artist #photographer #opportunity

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HERE * CHRIS HOPE

A modern-classical EP of 5 short movements based on the magical, small, beautiful, North Somerset seaside gem: Clevedon

Each of the five movements based on a different aspect of the town.

Enjoy whilst staring at endless skies…

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

📻Smartspeaker
🛜All Streaming Platforms
💿Limited Edition EP (DM or @softdaystores)

Chris x

#chrishope #here #modernclassical #clevedon #newalbum

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HERE * CHRIS HOPE

A modern-classical EP of 5 short movements based on the magical, small, beautiful, North Somerset seaside gem: Clevedon

Each of the five movements based on a different aspect of the town.

Enjoy whilst staring at endless skies…

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

📻Smartspeaker
🛜All Streaming Platforms
💿Limited Edition EP (DM or @softdaystores)

Chris x

#chrishope #here #modernclassical #clevedon #newalbum

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New modern classical album, ‘MEMORY’, will be released in autumn 2026.

It will be my third classical album (following ‘Evening’ and ‘Here’) and it was recorded at National Trust Tyntesfield near Bristol @tyntesfieldnt on their beautiful grand piano - with permission.

I will be advertising for an artist or photographer for the album cover in the coming month. Watch this space.

Excited to release ‘MEMORY by CHRIS HOPE’ in autumn 2026.

Following the success of ‘Here’ and the selection of several of its compositions by @bbcintroducing for their, #thesleepingforecast, I hope to tour all three classical albums in 2027.

#chrishopecomposer #classicalpiano #newalbum #piano

🎹
New modern classical album, ‘MEMORY’, will be released in autumn 2026.

It will be my third classical album (following ‘Evening’ and ‘Here’) and it was recorded at National Trust Tyntesfield near Bristol @tyntesfieldnt on their beautiful grand piano - with permission.

I will be advertising for an artist or photographer for the album cover in the coming month. Watch this space.

Excited to release ‘MEMORY by CHRIS HOPE’ in autumn 2026.

Following the success of ‘Here’ and the selection of several of its compositions by @bbcintroducing for their, #thesleepingforecast, I hope to tour all three classical albums in 2027.

#chrishopecomposer #classicalpiano #newalbum #piano

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HERE * CHRIS HOPE

A modern-classical EP of 5 short movements based on the magical, small, beautiful, North Somerset seaside gem: Clevedon @discoverclevedon

Each of the five movements based on a different element or aspect of the town.

Enjoy whilst staring at endless skies…

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

📻Smartspeaker
🛜All Streaming Platforms
💿Limited Edition EP (DM or @softdaystores)

Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #pianoalbum #modernclassical #composersofinstagram #meditativemusic

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HERE * CHRIS HOPE

A modern-classical EP of 5 short movements based on the magical, small, beautiful, North Somerset seaside gem: Clevedon @discoverclevedon

Each of the five movements based on a different element or aspect of the town.

Enjoy whilst staring at endless skies…

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

📻Smartspeaker
🛜All Streaming Platforms
💿Limited Edition EP (DM or @softdaystores)

Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #pianoalbum #modernclassical #composersofinstagram #meditativemusic

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HERE * CHRIS HOPE

A modern-classical EP of 5 short movements based on the magical, small, beautiful, North Somerset seaside gem: Clevedon @discoverclevedon

Each of the five movements based on a different element or aspect of the town.

Enjoy whilst staring at endless skies…

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

📻Smartspeaker
🛜All Streaming Platforms
💿Limited Edition EP (DM or @softdaystores)

Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #pianoalbum #modernclassical #composersofinstagram #meditativemusic

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HERE * CHRIS HOPE

A modern-classical EP of 5 short movements based on the magical, small, beautiful, North Somerset seaside gem: Clevedon @discoverclevedon

Each of the five movements based on a different element or aspect of the town.

Enjoy whilst staring at endless skies…

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

📻Smartspeaker
🛜All Streaming Platforms
💿Limited Edition EP (DM or @softdaystores)

Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #pianoalbum #modernclassical #composersofinstagram #meditativemusic

🎹
HERE * CHRIS HOPE

A modern-classical EP of 5 short movements based on the magical, small, beautiful, North Somerset seaside gem: Clevedon @discoverclevedon

Each of the five movements based on a different element or aspect of the town.

Enjoy whilst staring at endless skies…

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

📻Smartspeaker
🛜All Streaming Platforms
💿Limited Edition EP (DM or @softdaystores)

Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #chrishope #modernclassical #clevedon #meditativemusic

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HERE * CHRIS HOPE

A modern-classical EP of 5 short movements based on the magical, small, beautiful, North Somerset seaside gem: Clevedon @discoverclevedon

Each of the five movements based on a different element or aspect of the town.

Enjoy whilst staring at endless skies…

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

📻Smartspeaker
🛜All Streaming Platforms
💿Limited Edition EP (DM or @softdaystores)

Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #chrishope #modernclassical #clevedon #meditativemusic

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‘The Love Song for the White-Van-Men’

There are millions of love songs…
But somehow LOVE has been gentrified and sanitised and seems to be about the classes that could afford to spend the time writing about love…

That leaves a huge swathe of the hard-working population out. And they deserve love too.

Sometimes the people who need love the most are the ones who are the hardest to love. Or get ignored. Or don’t seem to need it: as they are solid, dependable, ripped, emotionless, islands… but NO!

These folk need a love song too…
There’s equal love and magic in the everyday.
🚐❤️
#chrishopecomposer #love #lovesongforthewhitevanmen #lovesong #loveisforeveryone

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‘The Love Song for the White-Van-Men’

There are millions of love songs…
But somehow LOVE has been gentrified and sanitised and seems to be about the classes that could afford to spend the time writing about love…

That leaves a huge swathe of the hard-working population out. And they deserve love too.

Sometimes the people who need love the most are the ones who are the hardest to love. Or get ignored. Or don’t seem to need it: as they are solid, dependable, ripped, emotionless, islands… but NO!

These folk need a love song too…
There’s equal love and magic in the everyday.
🚐❤️
#chrishopecomposer #love #lovesongforthewhitevanmen #lovesong #loveisforeveryone

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
‘ENGLAND’
By The Chris Hope Project

“England, with your power-station skies,
There’s victory in your eyes…”

A large, loud, proud modern composition designed to celebrate the best of British and incorporate echoes of lots of familiar songs and sounds….

This song, from ‘The Lighthouse’ album, includes:
Drums: @babyfacefinlayson
Bass: @simonjasonsmith
Guitars: @rblakeney
Piano: @chrishopecomposer
Trumpet: @tomjarvismusic
Strings: KEHSstrings
Crowd: England crowd
Radio 4 pips: @bbcradio4

#chrishopecomposer #trending #england #football #worldcup2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
‘ENGLAND’
By The Chris Hope Project

“England, with your power-station skies,
There’s victory in your eyes…”

A large, loud, proud modern composition designed to celebrate the best of British and incorporate echoes of lots of familiar songs and sounds….

This song, from ‘The Lighthouse’ album, includes:
Drums: @babyfacefinlayson
Bass: @simonjasonsmith
Guitars: @rblakeney
Piano: @chrishopecomposer
Trumpet: @tomjarvismusic
Strings: KEHSstrings
Crowd: England crowd
Radio 4 pips: @bbcradio4

#chrishopecomposer #trending #england #football #worldcup2026

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RELAXING MODERN-CLASSICAL ALBUM
‘HERE’ by CHRIS HOPE
🎹
✨On your smart-speaker 📻
✨All streaming platforms 🛜
✨Limited Edition CD E.P.* 💿

Available*:
Direct (DM)
@bbcsounds
@softdaystores Clevedon
@soundfulness sessions

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

#chrishopecomposer #herealbum #classical #piano #calmingmusic

✨
RELAXING MODERN-CLASSICAL ALBUM
‘HERE’ by CHRIS HOPE
🎹
✨On your smart-speaker 📻
✨All streaming platforms 🛜
✨Limited Edition CD E.P.* 💿

Available*:
Direct (DM)
@bbcsounds
@softdaystores Clevedon
@soundfulness sessions

With magical artwork by @aztecbanjos

#chrishopecomposer #herealbum #classical #piano #calmingmusic

Everything has been reduced down to 4 chords.

Our brains need and use music as a workout: and current thinking is that music might have developed before language… (Prof. Daniel Levitin).

But, like so much else in life, music is being reduced down: no subtlety; no variation; a bland offering of fast food for the brain and which covers ALL emotional experiences in adverts, film, theatre, TV…

WE MUST DEMAND MORE!!
Before we BECOME the RELENTLESS FOUR CHORDS

#chrishopecomposer #composerlife #therelentlessfourchord #wemustdemandmore #music

Everything has been reduced down to 4 chords.

Our brains need and use music as a workout: and current thinking is that music might have developed before language… (Prof. Daniel Levitin).

But, like so much else in life, music is being reduced down: no subtlety; no variation; a bland offering of fast food for the brain and which covers ALL emotional experiences in adverts, film, theatre, TV…

WE MUST DEMAND MORE!!
Before we BECOME the RELENTLESS FOUR CHORDS

#chrishopecomposer #composerlife #therelentlessfourchord #wemustdemandmore #music

Listening to latest commission, ‘Serenade’, today at a secret location.

It’s not all like this: but, occasionally, you get to listen to the music you’ve written - played by very accomplished musicians.

I’ve often forgotten the melody or moved on to something else, so it’s a nice reminder of the magic of music which starts as a delicate solo mission and becomes more magic the more people get involved in it.

I’m sure there’s a moral in that…
#chrishopecomposer #composer #composerlife #musicalscore #secretlocation

Listening to latest commission, ‘Serenade’, today at a secret location.

It’s not all like this: but, occasionally, you get to listen to the music you’ve written - played by very accomplished musicians.

I’ve often forgotten the melody or moved on to something else, so it’s a nice reminder of the magic of music which starts as a delicate solo mission and becomes more magic the more people get involved in it.

I’m sure there’s a moral in that…
#chrishopecomposer #composer #composerlife #musicalscore #secretlocation

#chrishopecomposer #projecttwo #themachine #ai

#chrishopecomposer #projecttwo #themachine #ai

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Just completed a commission score.
2 days of fumbling about with melodies and getting nowhere. Then a good night’s sleep and the composition appeared from nowhere…

Chris x
#chrishopecomposer #composition #composerlife #musicscore #music

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Just completed a commission score.
2 days of fumbling about with melodies and getting nowhere. Then a good night’s sleep and the composition appeared from nowhere…

Chris x
#chrishopecomposer #composition #composerlife #musicscore #music

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“The Lighthouse”

This is an album that I’m enormously proud of.
It honours my wife, Ruth, and the beautiful light she has brought to my life.

Today, I post it as a reminder of a friend who painted the artwork for it: Dr Matt Simpson.

Rest in peace, Simmo.

And thank you for the original painting - which still hangs in our living room as a reminder of the importance of the metaphorical lighthouses in our lives.

#chrishopecomposer #thelighthouse #album

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“The Lighthouse”

This is an album that I’m enormously proud of.
It honours my wife, Ruth, and the beautiful light she has brought to my life.

Today, I post it as a reminder of a friend who painted the artwork for it: Dr Matt Simpson.

Rest in peace, Simmo.

And thank you for the original painting - which still hangs in our living room as a reminder of the importance of the metaphorical lighthouses in our lives.

#chrishopecomposer #thelighthouse #album

Weekend spent scoring for a commission…

Missed all of the glorious weather.
And battled with a million terrible ideas yesterday before sleeping on it and retunrning with the whole thing in my head this morning.

I love the unconscious brain.
Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #scoring #composingmusic #commissions

Weekend spent scoring for a commission…

Missed all of the glorious weather.
And battled with a million terrible ideas yesterday before sleeping on it and retunrning with the whole thing in my head this morning.

I love the unconscious brain.
Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #scoring #composingmusic #commissions

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A little piece I wrote when I was 15.

30 years has treated it well - and it still reminds me of the joy of discovering new notes. It’s simple. And sad.

I began to use the piano as a way of speaking when I couldn’t find the words.

#chrishopecomposer #composition

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A little piece I wrote when I was 15.

30 years has treated it well - and it still reminds me of the joy of discovering new notes. It’s simple. And sad.

I began to use the piano as a way of speaking when I couldn’t find the words.

#chrishopecomposer #composition

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Idea in 6/4 + 5/4

There is a lovely cross-over between my work as @chrishopecomposer and as @soundfulness sound meditation.

I love to “noodle” about on the piano: partly thinking of compositions for commissions and projects; partly thinking of nice pieces of calming piano music to be used at Soundfulness sessions…

I’m not sure this is either, but it was nice to sit down and noodle for 5 minutes before the day began.

#chrishopecomposer #soundfulness #composing #noodlingaround

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Idea in 6/4 + 5/4

There is a lovely cross-over between my work as @chrishopecomposer and as @soundfulness sound meditation.

I love to “noodle” about on the piano: partly thinking of compositions for commissions and projects; partly thinking of nice pieces of calming piano music to be used at Soundfulness sessions…

I’m not sure this is either, but it was nice to sit down and noodle for 5 minutes before the day began.

#chrishopecomposer #soundfulness #composing #noodlingaround

* FJORDS

Preparing for new ‘Fjords’ album.

This song, ‘The Times Have Changed’, seems to me the saddest summary these crazy times…

The album will be guitar and vocal - low-fi, low-key acoustic songs.

#fjords #chrishopecomposer #newalbum #timeshavechanged #2026

* FJORDS

Preparing for new ‘Fjords’ album.

This song, ‘The Times Have Changed’, seems to me the saddest summary these crazy times…

The album will be guitar and vocal - low-fi, low-key acoustic songs.

#fjords #chrishopecomposer #newalbum #timeshavechanged #2026

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Still recording…
Half way through an album.

I chose to record this album NOT in my studio, but in the comfort of my home - in my favourite room.

It’s an intimate solo guitar and vocal album (not my usual array of multi-instruments: synths, orchestras, beats, flutes, rappers…). It’s the beautiful little songs I write and play at the end of days to myself or small groups of folk. Tiny little worlds that I’m very proud of and need recording delicately in safety and comfort. Ultimately, I want the album to sound small and intimate - like you’re sitting with me, in my favourite room, and I’m just playing for you.

Lyrics are scattered like snacks everywhere…

Flashing lights, mics, wires, soft surfaces, getting it wrong, trying again, almost giving up, wearing lots of jumpers, aiming for something beautiful, finger picking guitar, deleting it all, playing through the song differently, getting coffee, sending a text, having an shot of whisky, missing my family, changing lyrics, feeling high, feeling low, recording loudly, recording quietly, hearing the churchbells chime, re-tuning and doing it all again…

#chrishopecomposer #recordinganalbum

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Still recording…
Half way through an album.

I chose to record this album NOT in my studio, but in the comfort of my home - in my favourite room.

It’s an intimate solo guitar and vocal album (not my usual array of multi-instruments: synths, orchestras, beats, flutes, rappers…). It’s the beautiful little songs I write and play at the end of days to myself or small groups of folk. Tiny little worlds that I’m very proud of and need recording delicately in safety and comfort. Ultimately, I want the album to sound small and intimate - like you’re sitting with me, in my favourite room, and I’m just playing for you.

Lyrics are scattered like snacks everywhere…

Flashing lights, mics, wires, soft surfaces, getting it wrong, trying again, almost giving up, wearing lots of jumpers, aiming for something beautiful, finger picking guitar, deleting it all, playing through the song differently, getting coffee, sending a text, having an shot of whisky, missing my family, changing lyrics, feeling high, feeling low, recording loudly, recording quietly, hearing the churchbells chime, re-tuning and doing it all again…

#chrishopecomposer #recordinganalbum

People sometimes ask me what the heck I do as a composer…

Very occasionally it’s almost glamorous, which is fine.
But, mostly it’s sitting at pianos or guitars in carpeted rooms swamped by wires and little black boxes that do stuff.

I love these days. I love the ordinary, messy madness of these days. They aren’t glamorous; they aren’t fancy; but they are where the magic happens.

Perhaps an obvious metaphor for our lives.

They are full of pavements, concrete skies, service stations, torn paper, waiting, ruffled clothes, an itchy leg, a bill by the door, a bowl and cup in the sink, a kid’s grazed knee, a crow in some tussocky, littered grass…

But isn’t that just magic!?

I’d better get on with recording…

Chris x
#chrishopecomposer #composerlife #recordingstudio #everydaylife #recording

People sometimes ask me what the heck I do as a composer…

Very occasionally it’s almost glamorous, which is fine.
But, mostly it’s sitting at pianos or guitars in carpeted rooms swamped by wires and little black boxes that do stuff.

I love these days. I love the ordinary, messy madness of these days. They aren’t glamorous; they aren’t fancy; but they are where the magic happens.

Perhaps an obvious metaphor for our lives.

They are full of pavements, concrete skies, service stations, torn paper, waiting, ruffled clothes, an itchy leg, a bill by the door, a bowl and cup in the sink, a kid’s grazed knee, a crow in some tussocky, littered grass…

But isn’t that just magic!?

I’d better get on with recording…

Chris x
#chrishopecomposer #composerlife #recordingstudio #everydaylife #recording

My favourite recording studio in the world…

Working on new album.

#chrishopecomposer #composerlife #recording #recordingstudio

My favourite recording studio in the world…

Working on new album.

#chrishopecomposer #composerlife #recording #recordingstudio

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I often record on the road…

The beauty of music in the 21st Century is that it is fairly egalitarian: with fairly simple gear, people can record anywhere without needing a large studio.

Even the simplest gear nowadays is infinitely more complex than the gear all of the great bands and artists pre-1970s recorded on…

Chris x

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I often record on the road…

The beauty of music in the 21st Century is that it is fairly egalitarian: with fairly simple gear, people can record anywhere without needing a large studio.

Even the simplest gear nowadays is infinitely more complex than the gear all of the great bands and artists pre-1970s recorded on…

Chris x

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The BBC have picked up two compositions recently to include in their meditative listening.

🎵‘Solfeggio’ (the Soundfulness piano music) 🎵‘Strawberry Hill’ from recent meditative piano album, ‘HERE’ on the BBC Sleeping Forecast.

You can listen to the BBC’s ‘Sleeping Forecast’ on BBC Sounds.

The album can be bought at SOUNDFULNESS sessions or from @softdaystores_official Clevedon.

#chrishopecomposer #piano #classical #meditativemusic #bbcsounds

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The BBC have picked up two compositions recently to include in their meditative listening.

🎵‘Solfeggio’ (the Soundfulness piano music) 🎵‘Strawberry Hill’ from recent meditative piano album, ‘HERE’ on the BBC Sleeping Forecast.

You can listen to the BBC’s ‘Sleeping Forecast’ on BBC Sounds.

The album can be bought at SOUNDFULNESS sessions or from @softdaystores_official Clevedon.

#chrishopecomposer #piano #classical #meditativemusic #bbcsounds

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STUDIO 1

My beautiful little mixing studio in Clevedon.

2025 was a magical year for composition and I was lucky enough to work with various cultural institutions and legendary people.

2026 is looking a little different, with a mixture of composition work alongside my new sound meditation company, Soundfulness Ltd. Plus, there will be some more poetry.

After the recent re-release and Limited Edition pressings of classical album, ‘Here’, I will be releasing several albums in 2026 and 2027.

‘Memory’ - a new classical album
‘White Horses’ - ambient film soundscape
‘Landscapes’ - a new series of theatrical compositions

+

2 albums from ‘Lost Sound Club’
‘Broadcast All’
+
‘Worth A Thousand Myths’

More soon…
Chris x

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STUDIO 1

My beautiful little mixing studio in Clevedon.

2025 was a magical year for composition and I was lucky enough to work with various cultural institutions and legendary people.

2026 is looking a little different, with a mixture of composition work alongside my new sound meditation company, Soundfulness Ltd. Plus, there will be some more poetry.

After the recent re-release and Limited Edition pressings of classical album, ‘Here’, I will be releasing several albums in 2026 and 2027.

‘Memory’ - a new classical album
‘White Horses’ - ambient film soundscape
‘Landscapes’ - a new series of theatrical compositions

+

2 albums from ‘Lost Sound Club’
‘Broadcast All’
+
‘Worth A Thousand Myths’

More soon…
Chris x

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‘ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS TIME’
@tyntesfieldnt with @superculturewsm

My second winter soundscape accompanies ‘The Stag with a Star on his Forehead’ in Tyntesfield’s Billiard Room.

This installation was inspired by the
• Romanian folktale ‘The Stag with the Star on his Forehead’ and created by 10 young people from Next Gen Youth Club and @refswelcomens in collaboration with artists @alexia.scenography @kalmaedanishiya and Saifoulaye Diallo

📸 Bob Fowler

#chrishopecomposer #soundscapes #nationaltrust #tyntesfieldnationaltrust #superculture

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‘ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS TIME’
@tyntesfieldnt with @superculturewsm

My second winter soundscape accompanies ‘The Stag with a Star on his Forehead’ in Tyntesfield’s Billiard Room.

This installation was inspired by the
• Romanian folktale ‘The Stag with the Star on his Forehead’ and created by 10 young people from Next Gen Youth Club and @refswelcomens in collaboration with artists @alexia.scenography @kalmaedanishiya and Saifoulaye Diallo

📸 Bob Fowler

#chrishopecomposer #soundscapes #nationaltrust #tyntesfieldnationaltrust #superculture

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For this soundscape, I was able to use the voices of my two young daughters to whisper wintry words…

The piano element was recorded on the Tyntesfield National Trust’s own grand piano - with thanks to their Collections Team for facilitating.

The music utilises a Lydian scale - which creates the effect of moving in an unexpected (and magical) direction due to its sharpened 4th note.

And the “magical” quality of the piece is created in the semi-tone tension of major 5th and minor 6th notes. Two notes held together but from different musically-emotional worlds.

It leaves your brain in the liminal space between a major and minor chord: and somewhere in that space exists magic!

The composition is playing @tyntesfieldnt within their beautifully cultivated Drawing Room (pictured); and is part of a very large and hugely impressive @superculturewsm artistic takeover.

Merry Christmas!
Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #composer #howcompositionworks #visitbristol #howmusicworks #superculture #superculturewsm #tyntesfieldnationaltrust #tyntesfieldhouse #nationaltrust #nationaltrustsouthwest #onceuponachristmastime #christmas #christmasevents #nationaltrustchristmas #britain #britishchristmas #traditionalchristmas #christmastree

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For this soundscape, I was able to use the voices of my two young daughters to whisper wintry words…

The piano element was recorded on the Tyntesfield National Trust’s own grand piano - with thanks to their Collections Team for facilitating.

The music utilises a Lydian scale - which creates the effect of moving in an unexpected (and magical) direction due to its sharpened 4th note.

And the “magical” quality of the piece is created in the semi-tone tension of major 5th and minor 6th notes. Two notes held together but from different musically-emotional worlds.

It leaves your brain in the liminal space between a major and minor chord: and somewhere in that space exists magic!

The composition is playing @tyntesfieldnt within their beautifully cultivated Drawing Room (pictured); and is part of a very large and hugely impressive @superculturewsm artistic takeover.

Merry Christmas!
Chris x

#chrishopecomposer #composer #howcompositionworks #visitbristol #howmusicworks #superculture #superculturewsm #tyntesfieldnationaltrust #tyntesfieldhouse #nationaltrust #nationaltrustsouthwest #onceuponachristmastime #christmas #christmasevents #nationaltrustchristmas #britain #britishchristmas #traditionalchristmas #christmastree

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‘ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS TIME’

TYNTESFIELD 1st DECEMBER - 4th JANUARY

✨✨✨THIS IS PURE SEASONAL MAGIC✨✨✨

The whole of Tyntesfield has been transformed into a jaw-dropping fairytale wonderland. I caught a little glimpse last week and was blown away by the scale, beauty and festive inventiveness of the display.

✨❄️🎄NEW CHRISTMAS SOUNDSCAPE🎄❄️✨

I was given the opportunity to record a soundscape for NT Tyntesfield + Super Culture’s Christmas display: ‘Once Upon A Christmas Time’

Recorded on their very own, beautiful grand piano.

Part of a wonderful SW community, creative project.

Decking the Tyntesfield halls from 1.12.25-4.1.26

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‘ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS TIME’

TYNTESFIELD 1st DECEMBER - 4th JANUARY

✨✨✨THIS IS PURE SEASONAL MAGIC✨✨✨

The whole of Tyntesfield has been transformed into a jaw-dropping fairytale wonderland. I caught a little glimpse last week and was blown away by the scale, beauty and festive inventiveness of the display.

✨❄️🎄NEW CHRISTMAS SOUNDSCAPE🎄❄️✨

I was given the opportunity to record a soundscape for NT Tyntesfield + Super Culture’s Christmas display: ‘Once Upon A Christmas Time’

Recorded on their very own, beautiful grand piano.

Part of a wonderful SW community, creative project.

Decking the Tyntesfield halls from 1.12.25-4.1.26

#chrishopecomposer #tyntesfieldnationaltrust #tyntesfieldnt #superculture #superculturewsm #onceuponachristmastime #nationaltrustsouthwest #nationaltrust #christmas #christmastime #soundscape #christmassoundscape #community

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