Grahame Stuart Booth
M e d i a
BIO
Hi! My name is Grahame Stuart Booth and I’d like to welcome you to my website.
I live in Yorkshire in the UK and for most of my adult life I have been interested and involved in art, photography and music creation.
Finally now at the age of 65 and recently retired, I find I can devote the sort of time to these passions that previously I could only dream of when work and family commitments occupied my life.
Throughout all the years of my life I have had an on off relationship with photography. In the 70’s I became a devotee of the B&W genre and spent many hours locked away in my own darkroom. This love of monochrome still abides and as you will see from my portfolio is an important part of my photographic style.
As with my music, photography has now become digital and similarly I find myself using computer based tools to enhance, create and produce photographs that reflect the world as seen through my eyes.
As a teenager in the mid sixties, I grew up with the emerging world of ‘pop music’ and indeed had my own band - The Vital Few’. Playing clubs and bars in the North east of England we never became famous but we had a great time!
Later on I became fascinated with electronic music which began I suppose with Walter Carlos and his album ‘Switched on Bach’. Later it was John Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, Kraftwerk…the list is endless. Enough to say that these stars sparked my enduring fascination with synthesisers and digital music.
During my earlier years I wrote many songs and pieces of music but as I got older most of these have been forgotten. Very few got transcribed.
So one of my bucket list projects was that when I retired, I would try and resurrect some of these pieces and recreate them using all the wonderful electronic musical tools now available to us. This I did over a period of nine months and the end result is the album ‘Yesterdays’ which you can hear by clicking on the ‘music’ tab of this website.
This special edition of the album contains two new tracks; ‘You’re so Cool’ which is not my composition - it was written by Hans Zimmer - but it is my interpretation and Nano, a track I wrote for one of my films which you can see on my video page.
The second album, Romantic Interpretations, is my synthesised take on some of my classical favourites. Love 'em or hate 'em, I hope you find my musical ideas interesting!
I hope you enjoy looking at and listening to my digital creations and also hope that you will bookmark me and visit now and then to see what I have been up to.
Grahame Stuart Booth
Steeton, West Yorkshire, 2015