My name is James Newton, and this is my website - a collection of my writings about
videogames, music and all my other thoughts.
Music
My musical output over the past five years or more comes in two flavours: Prosody and James Newton.
This name covers all my vocal music. In 2005 I completed recording my debut album Long Distance, a collection of ten original songs written, performed and recorded by me.
All my instrumental music falls under my real name. Here you can find music I’ve written for projects including Shining Online, Tanner and a farming documentary.
Why two names?
When I began writing songs about five years ago, I was quite uncomfortable using my real name. I thought of using a pseudonym, rather like Neil Hannon using the Divine Comedy, so had a leaf through the dictionary (hey, it worked for Ash!).
I wanted a cool-sounding word with some relevance, and as I liked English and the letter P I went for “Prosody”, which is (of course) the study of poetical techniques. Rejected names included LipSnot, Provanity and Ellipsis. Prosody is much better.
After that, I found my instrumental music didn’t really sound like Prosody, so decided to use my real name for that. If I do record another album of songs I’ll use the Prosody name for that, but until then it’s likely to be all James Newton from now on. Which, let’s face it, is no bad thing.
