Music

Music: Improvisations on Keyboard

I often will sit down at my keyboard and improvise songs. I tend toward minor keys because I enjoy their emotive power. Relative minor often has a lighter, sadder sound than harmonic minor, and it is fun to modulate between the two types of minor keys. I also will modulate to a major key for… Continue reading Music: Improvisations on Keyboard

National Poetry Month: Sequence of Tanka Inspired by Break My Fucking Sky’s Album Final Breath

Drift on winds of time pulsating drone spears the heart A tremble of notes Sprinkled atop harmony wraps around the panicked mind. . Feet crunch broken rocks gloved hands release the stairway alien landscape ripples with mirages, heat above the star gleams blood red. . Hurricane of pain stabs the mind, body with fire energy… Continue reading National Poetry Month: Sequence of Tanka Inspired by Break My Fucking Sky’s Album Final Breath

Developing Musical Ideas

I sit here with bongos in my lap. The rhythms I tap out invoke melodies, many of which I discard as being too fragmented. I sometimes will sing these melodies out loud with the drumming to see if they match up as well in reality as they do in my head. Other times, I will… Continue reading Developing Musical Ideas

Elivera Cultural Studies 1

I’ve been working on another project, where I record songs from my Elivera Universe. Below is the start of this series. Enjoy! Elivera Cultural Studies This current study concerns the Eagrok people of the continent of Vera. In the temperate regions of the continent, the trees are nearly a kilometer high and several kilometers at… Continue reading Elivera Cultural Studies 1

I updated my page content here on the site. There is a new page called musical compositions that details the musical side to my writing. Be sure to check out that update! I even included some uploaded tracks of songs I’ve recently had performed for your enjoyment. In time, I hope to upload some improvisations… Continue reading Music

Connections and Patterns

As I studied for my finals today, I started to wonder about my creative process when it came to composing music and writing novels/stories. When I sit down to compose, I start with an idea. For example, in my Particles piece, I focused on the idea of representing quantum mechanics in music. With this idea… Continue reading Connections and Patterns