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Low tech static websites

This website is static; there are no data bases or dynamically created pages. The one exception - where server side processing is used - is the contact page. This is necessary in order to make the form secure and forward email.
The internet uses a considerable amount of the world's energy and most websites download a lot of irrelevant, unwanted content - wasting time, bandwidth and cluttering up the page. The world's most visited websites use tracking, analytics, and surveillance; as well as building extensive profiles of users.

Before the internet, publishers would print catalogues of composers' works, listing the title, instrumentation, whether it was for sale or hire etc. There would be a short biography and the address and telephone number of the publisher. This website is an internet version of such a catalogue.

It is usual to embed Youtube videos and Soundcloud audio tracks into a web page, unfortunately these websites load cookies into the browser, some of which remain active for a long time - even if no link is clicked. This is not paranoid. If you buy a book, the bookshop does not know what books you bought next, where you read the book, or whether you went to another shop afterwards. In the same way so-called big tech should not track every website you visit - unfortunately they do.

This website has a carbon rating of A+. The email is hosted by a company whose servers are powered by renewable hydroelectricity.

Relevant links:

Static vs Dynamic Website
Cookies: I looked at 50 well-known websites and most are gathering our data illegally
How to Build a Low-tech Website?
The original Website Carbon calculator