Assign - Music for Strings Electronics and Percussion. MSEP 19 - my 77th album. Four pieces long after the music of Dr James Saunders.- a four disc set.

Assign - after the music of Dr James Saunders - Rh 286 - 289. I first met Dr Sunders when I travelled up to Huddersfield University to visit the Music Dept. - specifically their lecturer in Contemporary music, a man I felt I had to meet, at the home of the famous Cm festival - Dr James Saunders.

He was very kind, he listened to my 'Moment of a Butterfly [Album Em 16] and invited me to join the improvisation group - for a session - which I was allowed to record. I would release it back to them as the free album 'Huddersfield Impromptu - 3 Undirected pieces' - on my 'Julian Broadhurst Bandcamp' main page]. He also gave me a copy of his 'Modular' work '#Unassigned - which you had to then create for yourself from a kit of parts, uniquely each time, and then assign it a number as a Date.

I only had one CD player, so I created a hard listening Copy. But whist I had it in the screen, me being what I am, the temptation was too much, and things started to happen to it. I felt very bad and wrote to tell him - apologising profusely. He wasn't angry at all, as a natural educator to a student composer -.he invited me to go further, Bless him I did and sent four versions to him - he wasn't personally taken with them, but would be happy for them to exist if I would always mention their origin.

My first assignments were worthless, and they went in the draw. A long time later, during one of several Deep reassessments of my works, I thought about the concept of these pieces, and decided to take him at his word and incorporate them into my woks, creating a new four volume version of them, recreating them from the start - as 'Assign - After the music of Dr James Saunders' - they would now join my works as MSEP 19. Of the music, there is no explanation - the sound is all there is - but I hope there is resourcefulness here and that they can be part of the extended family of Assignments, that many people have created for various combinations of instruments. "And here is mine, so let it be known . . ." - [The Smiths - 'What difference does it make'].

Assign - a Four Disc set

[] Album MSEP 19

Assign 1 - Rh 286
Assign 2 - Rh 287
Assign 3 - Rh 287
Assign 4 - Rh 288


An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Music for Strings Electronics and Percussion, MSEP a genre of Electroacoustic composition. By Convention MSEP.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, Metal Percussion music, or MPm. The third of five is the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP. The last genre is Electronic music, Em, taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Album numbers 76 to 95 form my fourth ‘Group’ - a 4th time division across my Genres, my Inner Blue Group. This builds on both the foundational 'Blue Cherry Group' [where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest] and the big 'New Horizon Group' - [where I explored to see where these five genres were leading me]. There then seemed to be a ‘band of gold’ across my discography. My Golden Band Group that mark a particularly successful time for meThe albums that follow that, 76 to the end, are a ‘Blue Horizon’ – after the phrase’ blue sky research’ - the ‘Blue Horizon Group.’ For convenience, I divided this Huge area into the Inner and the Outer Blue Groups. So the Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Horizon – or Inner Blue Group.

There are three MSEP albums in the Inner Blue Group - MSEP 19 to 21.

[] Album MSEP 19 Assign is a four-disc box of music distantly after James Saunders.

[] Album MSEP 20 is ‘War Skies Over London’ an evocation of war, of the Air War over London.

[] Album MSEP 21 Bela Whispers is the concluding part of the Bela Triptych for the evanescence of ‘string group’.


Inner Blue Group – MSEP []

DCM 076 - Em 29 - Auda

[] DCM 077 -MSEP 19 - Assign 1 - 4 []

DCM 078 - Phm 8 - Deep Pink
DCM 079 - Em 30 - Haus music
DCM 080 - Em 31 - Magic lily music
DCM 081 - MPm 10 - 1st and 2nd Da Su for Mp
DCM 082 - Phm 9 - Beriom 1 - 3 (6 Tromb.)

[] DCM 083 -MSEP 20 - War Skies Over London []

DCM 084 - Phm 10 - Beriom 4 - 7 (4 & 5 Fl)
DCM 085 - Em 32 - Beriom 8
DCM 086 - Em 33 - Beriom 9
DCM 087 - Em 34 - Beriom 10
DCM 088 - Em 35 - Untitled
DCM 089 - Em 36 - Rothko Triptych
DCM 090 - Phm 11- Sound Prints
DCM 091 - MPm 11 - Kontact Dance
DCM 092 - Dm 13 - 2nd & 3rd Inv for Dj.
DCM 093 - Em 37 - Ober
DCM 094 - Dm 14 - 4th Inv Dj - Dm Sn no. 8

[] DCM 095 -MSEP 21 - Bela Whispers []

The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2020. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planned from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.