A Course In Miracles
I Am One Self
can be heard at Bandcamp:
https://michaelsmeditationmusic.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-one-self
Other streaming platforms to follow in December 2025.
I Am One Self begins with two peaceful overlapping rhythms and a simple mantra. Layers are added at regular intervals energising the inner flow to love and joy. It is played by strings, recorders, horns and percussion.
Released November 6, 2025
Composer: Michael Hugh Dixon
Audio Engineer: Jack Garzonio
Recorders: Kathryn Bennetts
Violins: Ella Bennetts
Violas: Marianne Yeomans
Celli: Anthea Cottee
Percussion: David Manual
Horns: Michael Hugh Dixon
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can be heard at Bandcamp: https://michaelsmeditationmusic.bandcamp.com/track/rejoin
Other streaming services:
This is what the piece is about, though the words are not sung:
'Father, my home awaits my glad return. Your arms are open and I hear your Voice. What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of broken dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine?'
Kathryn Bennetts - tenor recorders
Jennifer Druery - double bass
David Manual - percussion
Michael Hugh Dixon - horns
Jack Garzonio - audio engineering, editing, mixing
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also on YouTube
This Not Be - A Deepening
is a deeper view of my original work for 7 horns (This Need Not Be) now for 6 strings and saxophone solo with a larger set of harmonics. The 'song' is played out 5 times. First with strings and the chords. Second with saxophone and extended just intonation chords in the strings. The 3rd time is just like the first. The fourth is extended further with a few high pitches highlighted by a glockenspiel. The fifth time we hear the melody played as in the original horn version.
Peter Leung - alto saxophone; Veronique Serret - violin; Marianne Yeomans - viola; Anthea Cottee - cello. Recording engineer and editor - Jack Garzonio.
You can hear it at all streaming services. Here is the link to Bandcamp:
https://michaelsmeditationmusic.bandcamp.com/track/this-need-not-be-a-deepening
At Home
This chorale with the simple text I Am At Home. It is played and sung 49 times with with subtle changes over the 12 minutes.
This Need Not Be
This instrumental work for 7 horns ‘sings’ the text: 'Whenever your mood tells you that you have chosen wrongly, and this is so whenever you are no joyous, then know this need not be.
For 7 horns. Recorded at Studios 301, 2 October 2014.
You can hear it at all streaming services, here is the Spotify link.
https://open.spotify.com/track/05XQ9FNLcxDfKlcNBKlezh?si=70e643a900734e20
Most of my digital releases are distributed with my full name: Michael Hugh Dixon. This Need Not Be is the only one left under Michael H Dixon.
Performed as solo with backing track:
Oort Festival, May 2017, EuroMicroFest, Freiburg, May 2017; Family concert, April 2019.