Defining an Emerging Compositional Framework Abstract Musical genres are generally identified retrospectively. Music develops through experimentation, influence, technology, culture, and individual artistic practice; terminology often follows later, once common characteristics become sufficiently recognizable to warrant a name. Over the past
For years I’ve been fascinated by human behavior, in the internal systems that shape it, and the motivations behind it. I have also invested time informally studying criminal behavioral psychology. From court cases to interviews, crime scenes to investigations, forensics
There’s a strange transition that can happen when you spend most of your professional life on stage. Airports, rehearsals, tour buses, backstage passes, and applause… then suddenly realize the thing pulling at you the hardest is home. For most of
Every person, every culture, every memory, every psychological state bends reality in a slightly different way. We move from observation to interpretation of events and the reality around us. For most of my adult life, I have been a fairly
Many film and game scores are discussed in terms of emotion. Increasingly, I find myself beginning with behavior. A traditional film cue might ask: How should the audience feel? My approach has evolved to ask: What is this character thinking?
The story: My Internal Weather: Shared Space album is a collaborative expansion. The original INTERNAL WEATHER explored internal landscapes. SHARED SPACE expands that world outward through the voices and textures of collaborators who helped shape these pieces into something larger
The Anomalous Echo EP began as a commission for the title screen of the independent game Static Horizon. The brief was simple: mysterious, unsettling, with monk-like chanting. I interpreted this as something that felt ancient, familiar, and futuristically ominous.
AI, Music, and the Question of Honesty THE NEW CREATIVE DIVIDE There’s a strange psychological shift happening in modern music creation. Not because technology evolved. Technology has always evolved. The shift is happening because people are quietly redefining authorship while
INTERNAL WEATHER is a continuation of my work in percussion forward cinematic composition, music that lives in the space between internal comfort and our external environment. This EP started from a simple image. Sitting in sanctuary, slightly unsettled, watching the
From PATCHWERKZ to PERC & ATMOS Every release documents a moment. Together they tell a larger story of refinement, direction, and identity. My path from PATCHWERKZ to SCORE WORKS VOL I PERC & ATMOS isn’t just a progression of sound,
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