The Method is software that creates music, allowing you to 'sit' for a musical portrait just as if you were being painted. The software 'paints' your music. It will only take a few minutes of your time.

UP TO 3 FREE MUSICAL PORTRAITS

Once you've completed your registration, you will be entitled to 3 free portrait sittings and free access to this website until July 31st, after which time you will be offered the option to continue access to this site on a subscription basis. During this first 3 month period, though, please enjoy The Method free of charge.

After you've sat for your Method portraits, you can download them, play them back at your leisure, share them with your friends, compare them, noticing the similarities and differences between them, which will vary according to your input into the process. You may not like them, you may love them, you may prefer one to the other two, but, whatever your reaction, they will be authentic portraits, unique to you, based on the information gathered by your interaction with the Method software.

METHOD MUSIC TEAM

The Method Music Software has been developed under the patronage of Pete Townshend by mathematician/composer Lawrence Ball and software developer Dave Snowdon. A team of composers, personally approved by and occasionally including Pete Townshend, will regularly listen to Method Music portraits and select a few for further development/elaboration.

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR PORTRAIT

If one of your portraits is chosen, it does not mean it is better or worse than any other portrait, just considered by the composers to be technically more suitable to be elaborated into a "bigger" piece, possibly even a song.

Although your portrait is controlled by Eel Pie, should we go on to develop or elaborate it you may be invited to further engage and participate. This could lead to us creating commercial applications and if so we plan to reward you with a one-third interest in earnings from your portrait music used in this way.

METHOD MUSIC CONCERT

What you and every other Sitter may well be able to enjoy in the future is a concert at which all the music created by this software is aired in public for the first time. Watch this space!

To sit for up to 3 free portraits, please now complete the following form...