Music
Thank You For The Nightmares
This is an experimental album pieced together over the course of the pandemic, with the overarching goal of having each track flow into the next within a given section, and then stitching those sections together to form a broader musical composition fitting the same general theme: the movement between darkness and light.
Last Train To Yokohama
After weeks of planning, the day has finally arrived. You and your friends have gathered from far and wide to return to the town where you all first met, ready to relive those heady, carefree days of youth. Everyone has followed their own separate paths in life, but for that one day, it's as though nothing has changed. Catching up with them and reminiscing like this has a way of fortifying the soul. You don't want this string of fleeting moments to end, but you know sooner or later the evening has to draw to a close. The next day, you can hardly bring yourself to say goodbye. You end up leaving town on the very last train.
Rainstreaked Memories
This album is about what happens when a relationship falls apart, from initially promising beginnings to an eventual plummeting end, all the while struggling through a gradual unraveling of the self. Even after it is over, it is difficult to process what happened or to figure out the turning point where everything started to go wrong. After trudging through the emotional fallout, you once again stand on your own two feet, but the experience has left you with an indelible and bittersweet feeling. At the end of the day, all you have left to prove that you were in love are Rainstreaked Memories.
Reflections of Time and Space
This is a collection of the greatest hits from all albums released in 2017, and contains a balanced mix of instrumental and vocal tracks. The twelve songs that make up this compilation were chosen based on the results of a month-long listener survey.
Secret Zone
This is a compilation album containing all of the bonus tracks from the previous 2017 albums (Terminal Amusement, The World Is Now Yours, and Hypertext Renaissance) as well as an extra bonus track made especially for this album.
Mac Attack
This is a compilation album containing tracks from the previous 2017 albums (Terminal Amusement, The World Is Now Yours, and Hypertext Renaissance) which were all created using music and sound effects taken from computer games released for the Apple Macintosh during the 1990s.
Hypertext Renaissance
This album is a love letter to the days of the early Internet - back when it was called the World Wide Web, GeoCities was king, and a site could fit on a single floppy disk. At the same time, it examines the economy of the 1990s, starting with earnest optimism and then closing out the decade with a crash as the dot-com bubble bursts.
The World Is Now Yours
This album explores the life cycle of a generation - from its inception and struggle for form, to challenging and overcoming adversity, and finally to full actualization. A large part of this also has to do with the overlap between generations, both before and after, and how each responds to the other. Ultimately the album ends with the passing of the torch to the next generation as part of an unending succession.
Terminal Amusement
This was the first album that I put together. Although the theming isn't as strong as in subsequent works, the general concept is that it describes the events that unfold over a typical weekend for a broad swath of young adults working their way forward in life. The original album was only about 23 minutes long, but I have since revisited it and provided both extended and bonus tracks for a better overall experience.