MUSIC COMPOSITION    

I am working on about 50 music compositions across all genres, composed over many decades. My new platform is a Korg Kronos 2 (88 key) synthesiser/work-station.

Some of my music was recorded and produced in 2014 as a CD titled:  “Pictures of Life”.

Some draft compositions can be heard below:

SYMBOLIC ART NOTATION     

A visual language system that can be understood in 2 hours (my invention) – no sounds or words but includes all the elements of modern grammar and can be understood by all nationalities at the same time – a great system for learning language. Developed in Tasmania and being developed for formal teaching.

Click on this PDF LINK to my latest book on Symbolic Art Notation, showing what it is and what it can do:

PDF with links BOOK SEPT2021 – SAN BOOK

MY OTHER BOOKS       

(5 novels, short stories, poetry, comedy skits)

Samples from my poetry book “Framed by Poetry” – published by Cyberwit 2021:

Note: There are 83 poems in the book.

Review of “Framed by Poetry”:  by Dianne Bates (BuzzWords)

With a sub-title ‘A gallery of chosen poems from my collection,’ this is a compilation of 81 selected poems for a wide range of audiences, including children. Cyberwit says on its AIS, ‘The poet for the most part uses matter-of-fact, everyday words instead of artificial and ornamental vocabulary’, and this is indeed one of the most attractive elements of the collection.

Standing up for issues such as climate change, poverty, prejudice, and social injustice, Nicholson’s poems have titles such as ‘The Last Human,’ ‘Remembrance Day’ and ‘Moment in Time.’ The style of poems varies as widely as the subject matter with prose poems (‘The Promise’), rhyming poems (‘The Writer’), free form (‘Last Autumn Leaf’), cinquain (‘My Dog’), and haiku (‘Poetry Is’).

Overall, in this collection one often sees the versatile poet drawing on his emotional intelligence as he explores his own life experiences and his reaction to the world around him. His social conscience is evident in numerous poems such as ‘First Call’, a prose poem about a child living in poverty. He asks, ‘Why do they live and die this way, while others look away?’ To this he adds, ‘We fight for just equality, freedom from domination. Yet we sacrifice ordinary quiet lives and soldiers from each nation.’ This sensibility is demonstrated, too, in ‘Clouds of Glass,’ with lines such as ‘Cultivating greed without compassion for the hungry poor’, and ‘… deplete everything living, for the greed of man.’

The poet’s personal experience is evident in ‘Denying Self’ which begins with ‘I know a place where we belong – together’ and continues to address a loved one. Alongside romantic poems such as this and poems with a social conscience, Nicholson also writes quirky and humorous poems. In ‘Moon’, he begins with, ‘The man in the moon is standing on his head, /Or maybe it’s a woman, as some modern gals have said.’

‘Musical Life’ is another eccentric poem with lines including (in capital letters), words to do with music such as, ‘I could eat a PIANO FORTE with a TUBA mayonnaise and a FLUTE of champagne to STAVE off my hunger.’

There is no doubt that this collection should appeal to a wide audience, including children. Nicholson has spread his wings wide and with Framed by Poetry adds to his oeuvre which includes 15 novels and non-fiction books for both adults and children.

Copies of the book can be purchased from the publisher (Cyberwit.net) and Amazon.

 OTHER SERVICES OFFERED

• Academic Writing and Research

• Creative Writing (all genres)

• Multi-Media (online, information kiosks, web pages)

• Public Relations and Speech Writing

• Historical Writing and Research

• Illustrations for technical, business and creative publications

• Publishing your book:  I will professionally publish your book after ghost writing the content for you and hand over any quantity of books for your own sales and for family

• I will write up your resume or proofread your academic, technical or business documents/theses etc. to meet your deadlines and budget

• Management Information Systems (Database/Spread-Sheet) with completed Databases for HSEQ, HR, Foundry Production, Recruitment, Radio Station Programming, Small Business Accounts

• Business, Scientific and Technical Computer Programs (code) for those difficult computational problems

• Music Composition (classical, jazz, ballad, orchestral) and Recording on my KORG KRONOS 2  (88key) synthesiser/workstation for Multi-Media, Advertising and Theme Music for my other creative works

• Electronic Design and Products

phone:      0417 181 077         or          email:   stefannicholson@bigpond.com