Music
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?
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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.
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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.
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Adventureson Singles
These one offs are from 2025, 2023, 2022, and late 2021 respectively.
Between Adventureson and Jetsetter, I released albums under my own name. Clever, I know. This work spans the years 2012-2020. What started as a kickstarter project evolved considerably. This era involved composing tracks for films, including the Emmy winning documentary The Last Colony.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.”
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The earliest album I’ve recorded that still exists online is under the name Jetsetter (2007), a partnership with collaborator Renee Dunaway. That music has been featured on MTV’s Real World and Road Rules and USA’s Burn Notice. Since then I’ve veered more experimental, playing with textures and ambience. I describe the music on this page–and that I make now– as soundtracks for movies that haven’t been made. Yet. These days I go by the name Adventureson.
I have other odds and ends floating around online. Like the hour long Loomings, where I removed every letter from Chapter 1 of Moby Dick except for “ABCDEFG” and played it in real time. And Jetsam, a cozy 20 minute single.
