Cyclicalshmyclical

2024, 39 Minutes

In 2023 I recorded a song every week (I did it in 2020 as well). These were the standouts that also worked together. Mostly. It’s about patterns. Knowing when to maintain them, and when to break them. And how they ripple out physically and emotionally to people near and far. nbd, right?

Limbus

2024, 2 Minutes

Spend enough time with yourself and it’ll wear you out. Even if you think you’re a good person.

That Wonderful Space

2023, 2 Minutes

A by-product of recording one song per week. Did you know a flatbed scanner makes for an interesting camera?

Fluke

2022, 3 Minutes

Recorded live, in my first and only take, using an OP-1. Slowed in post to taste. Seasoned with malaise.

Doom As I Say Not As I Doom

2021, 27 Minutes

Maybe it’s the pandemic or maybe it’s the politics or maybe it’s the planet that’s killing us as a result of us killing it. It’s DOOM from here on out, folks. If you want something bright and happy, maybe give your local lite radio a try.

Unlike “Ghost Bones”, this collection of songs is darker. It’s anxious but not (entirely) unpleasant. Tense but with a hint of hope. Drums dominate half of the tracks and time signatures vary. The goal was to unsettle but not unhinge.

Relay

2021, 3 Minutes

Texture as a warm blanket. Warm blankets as texture. It’s all the same, except when it isn’t.

Ghost Bones

2021, 54 Minutes

Maybe you’re not sitting in an office or working from home or on your phone or in class on a computer but instead on a mountain looking at another mountain that you need to climb. You’re a person of adventure, after all. The weather is magically perfect; warm breezes blow when you’re cold and a gentle rain falls when you’re hot. It there danger? Sure, but nothing you can’t handle. Your backpack weighs almost nothing but carries everything you want. What you’ve experienced in life has given you more than you need to turn this journey into something profound. Let’s go.

Vast

2020, 38 Minutes

These six ambient tracks span three years of on-and-off composition and production. They were written after moving from a small city (of 30,000) to a tiny town (of 3000) with lots of space to roam, physically and mentally. Pairs best with isolation, working from home, falling asleep, parenting a toddler, etc. This is a more complex (and shorter) companion piece to Paths (below). I also released it the week that Covid shut down America.

Jetsam

2018, 24 Minutes

An experimental slow burn. That’s marketing for a long song without much action. By intention, naturally.

Videotunes

2017, 14 Minutes

Soundtrack for a short video documentary series. The Center for Transformative Action hosts the Finger Lakes Social Entrepreneurship where these participants were interviewed. I created music to be spoken over.

Timescapes

2016, 28 Minutes

This collection span four years of on and of music making. Many of them accompanied short videos I made of my kid.

Paths

2012, 66 Minutes

As a knee-jerk reaction to my previous album (Christopher Mackenzie) I wanted something weirder, slower, less coherent. By exploring longer songs (three over 10 minutes) it became more about having a background sound that was contemplative, without requiring too much attention. I was listening to a lot of Eno, obviously.

The Return Voyage of Christopher Mackenzie

2012, 44 Minutes

In the year 2102 five thousand people from Earth leave on a generation ship to find a hospitable planet.

This album takes place 300 years after that, as brave (or idiotic) explorer Christopher Mackenzie makes an epic journey from his home toward the ruined planet his ancestors fled. Each song tells a story from his adventure “home.”