A song about the desire for change that also questions whether it is needed.

Songfight!

New Modality (Songfight Version)

Recorded live in one take. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/fcoFxRN0bxU

Alone In The Morning (Jamuary 2024 Version)

A song about the futility of quick fixes.

I Only Go Once A Week

A Grand Parade (Songfight Version)

These songs were written for the final project of a class about Asian American history and identity, using a framework that unpacks the particularities of ethnic heritage, migration experience, American culture, and racialization. Writing from my context as a white man in Seattle attending a Christian graduate school while reexamining my own Catholic upbringing, I explore how heritage, migration experience, American culture, and racialization impact grief and lament in my life.

Identity & Grief (TSS Version)

White School (TSS Version)

A Product of Culture (TSS Version)

Unsettled (TSS Version)

Heritage (TSS Version)

This is a song about committing to work in relationship. Written for the live fight of Songfight! Live 2024.

Valley Highway (Songfight Version)

This track is available on Bandcamp as pay-what-you-want: https://future-boy.bandcamp.com/track/entreaty-to-a-tree

There is a Giant Sequoia in Seattle's Volunteer Park named Franklin who I have spent many hours talking with and leaning on for support. This is a song that imagines asking Franklin for wisdom and receiving their response. The tune and structure is inspired by / adapted from the African-American spiritual Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord), which is a song about witnessing suffering. Since I have spent so much time witnessing Franklin and having my suffering witnessed by them, it felt appropriate to use Were You There as a model.

Entreaty To A Tree

Future Boy has been releasing music on the internet since August, 2003 when he entered his first Songfight.