http://www.peterchalloner.co.uk/

Peter Challoner is an electronic music composer from the UK, born, raised in Nottingham in the heart of Central England. He is not what you would class as an orthodox musician, having had no formal musical training, and the fact that music, although being a major force in his life, for most of his life, is only a supplementary activity to a career as an architectural technician. It has long been stated that there are strong links between music, architecture, and visual arts in general. ‘My job is creative, a design process from a concept form of an idea into a finished piece of construction, and it's the same approach with my music'

Having been introduced to electronic music from an early age, the likes of Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream and Jarre have formed the basis of a musical education that was later broadened by an introduction to the more abstract ‘sound worlds’ of Brian Eno and Philip Glass.

Eno's ambient 1 - music for airports, and Glass' music in twelve parts really opened up his 'musical eyes' to more abstract soundscapes. 'During my student days studying art and design, it was always the abstract pieces that caught my imagination, when I found myself looking at a work and wondering what it was all about, rather than a traditional painting that told you straight away what it was’

‘I was fascinated by the concept of the involvement of viewer interpretation. When I first heard Eno’s Music For Airports and Glass’ Part 1 (of twelve) I was amazed and thought fantastic, that’s my kind of music. I can be absorbed in these pieces for ages, with a real interaction, it’s a musical place to be, that can be different every time, depending on where you are when you hear it’.

It was sometime later the idea came along to try making music for himself, and on getting his first keyboard, found that the invention of music was something that came quite naturally. Having a finely tuned ear from years of intense listening, and drawing inspiration from the electronic ’heroes’ the music began to flow quite quickly and easily. After several years of experiment, development, and extreme learning curve, largely with collaborator Paul Smith, the first full album was finally completed ‘From Nowhere Came’ released under the name of Asymmetric.

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