The Music

SO HAPPY

Alternating between brutal riffs, false euphoria and stark introspection, So Happy traces a path through alienation and tribalism to rediscover the basis of authenticity and meaning.

Drawing from a wide spectrum of musical influences, the album ultimately resolves in a sweeping, symphonic synthesis of its recurring musical motifs, descending into darkness before struggling into light.

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Streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube and other platforms.

So Happy Lyrics

STRING QUARTET No. 2

A composition in three movements for two violins, viola and cello.

I describe it as 20th century music dressed in the garb of the late romantic or early modern era.

One listener described it as having "a style that has both a contemporary and a classical feel that sits nicely in the ear. The 2nd movement is particularly fun!"

Preview String Quartet No. 2

BLOOM

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Also streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube and other platforms.

Like a soundtrack for an industrial fairy tale, Bloom draws you into a world that is part Bavarian forest and part oil refinery. Imagine walking slowly through mossy and oil-streaked passages. Above you is a tangle of tree limbs, pipes and twisting cables as you make your way through the damp gloom. Suddenly, the darkness parts and before you is a shaft of light illuminating a strange and beautiful flower with a single bloom. Is it a miracle, a gift? Or an illusion…a trap?

BREATH IN THE MACHINE

Featuring Theresa Brooks

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Also streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube and other platforms.

"To hear the near final mix of the song before it was released was a little like exploring a new part of a familiar city at night. Feeling the awe and wonder of something new..." - Theresa Brooks, featured artist

Read an Interview with Theresa Brooks

The industrial edge of “Breath in the Machine” masks a surprising secret: the lead instrument is…yup, a bassoon. Through unconventional performance techniques, the bassoonist (Theresa Brooks) breathes a radically different energy through the mechanics of her instrument and, with the help of electronic manipulation, it is warped into unrecognizable and distorted forms against a propulsive industrial beat.

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SACRED SPACE 1

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Using text from the medieval Latin chant Dies Irae (Day of Wrath), Sacred Space 1 is a sonic imagining of religion or spirituality somewhere in a post-industrial wasteland. Some might call it ambient noise, but that doesn’t capture its essence; it’s more accurately a “sound drama.” 

Picture the cathedral-like interior of a forsaken factory. Discordant chimes reverberate in the dusty gloom. Two penitents enter and slowly approach an altar, there abasing themselves before the machine. In the shadows, anchorites intone fearful chants in an ancient tongue. The machine stirs to life, processes its calculations, then renders a judgment. Only one penitent emerges.

Sacred Space 1 Lyrics

STEEL + HONEY

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Steel + Honey is a dynamic blend of industrial-inspired electronica. Moving at a brisk tempo, industrial textures and off-kilter electronics contrast with melodic choruses that border on confection. As the track progresses, it plunges into darker, more intense territory, where dissonance and driving rhythms create a tension-filled climax. The journey concludes with a return to the initial themes, yet it leaves a lingering sense of unresolved conflict, hinting that turmoil persists beneath the surface.

DIVERGENCE

A Tale of Human Nature, Arrogance and Reckoning

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Also available on Bandcamp.

What happens when our sense of self drifts from fundamental reality? My latest single Divergence delves into that realm.

This distinctive track features an energetic walking bass and electronic percussion with a hint of Latin groove. Enigmatic harmonies create a backdrop for synths that oscillate between aggressive jabs and soft caresses. The layered vocals—part intoned, part sung—weave a tale of human nature, arrogance and reckoning.

Divergence Lyrics

AT THE EDGE

Released April, 2024

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Also available on Bandcamp.

At The Edge is an exploration of personal and spiritual crisis in an industrialized society, equal parts darkness and light, despair and hope, resignation and resistance. Pervasive sounds of machinery and technology are set against quantized rhythms. Yet a fractured humanity, expressed in the classical influences and layered voices, yearns to break free of the machinery, rediscover itself and find meaning in existence.

Album with six songs, 28.5 minutes total

At The Edge Lyrics

WEIMAR

An Eclectic Musical Journey Through Sociopolitical Disintegration

Weimar is not a place. It is not a time.
It is a state of being, a condition.

Progress and nostalgia collide.
Science and delusion embrace.
Creation mingles with decay.
Extremity saturates the mundane.

The moment is all.
The center cannot hold.
And nothing can be satisfied.