I’ve been writing music for some years now, and these pages represent some of the best work I’ve done. My music is split into two personas:

Prosody - started in 2003.

and

James Newton - started in 1984.

The reason for this difference is quite simple, really. There’s always a certain age when all your friends seem to be in bands and doing cool things musically, and I suppose I was jealous, so wanted to be a band in my own right. I also admired (and still do) the Divine Comedy, which is just a name Neil Hannon uses instead of his own. “I could do that,” I thought, so I did. I flicked through the dictionary and found prosody, which is the study of poetic techniques, of course.

The next thing to do was check if there were any decent domains available - always have my priorities set straight, me - and there was www.prosody.co.uk. I liked the name and the domain and it seemed to fit, so I stuck it on instead of my own name.

“Okay, so that explains Prosody, but why do you have two sections?”

Good question. As I grew up I became more comfortable with my name, which seemed to coincide with a duality in my music - I was writing very different, poppy, vocal music as Prosody to the instrumental and orchestral stuff I was writing for games, so I thought I should use my real name for that - it would be weird seeing “Music by Prosody” in the titles anyway.

The Prosody page now contains my full-length album “Long Distance” as a free download, as well as the lyrics for all tracks, so you can finally figure out my mumbling.

My James Newton section contains tracks from four projects I’ve worked on recently - Shining Online, the movie Tanner and two student documentaries. There’s some really interesting stuff there, from very game-y bouncy tunes to beautiful piano and cello tracks to spacious synth pieces. I think you’ll find something enjoyable whichever section you visit!