Rough demo, work in progress.  Instrumental, progressive, guitar-driven exploration.

Death Of Me

Is It

Remember

Gone

Childhood

Cyclical

Take What You Have

Have you ever been afraid to receive love? It's just another part of our beautiful, complex human condition. Sometimes, we have to pause, touch the ground with our bare feet, and look around us. Love is everywhere. It's free and giving, if we surrender to it's generosity.

You'll be given love
You'll be taken care of
You'll be given love
You have to trust it
Maybe not from the sources
You have poured yours
Maybe not from the directions
You are staring at
Twist your head around
It's all around you
All is full of love
All around you
All is full of love
You just ain't receiving
All is full of love
Your phone is off the hook
All is full of love
Your doors are all shut
All is full of love!
All is full of love, all is full of love
All is full of love, all is full of love

Original by Bjork: https://youtu.be/AjI2J2SQ528

All Is Full Of Love - Cover

A shorter version of this piece was tailored specifically for breathtaking launch footage brought to you with love by Ryan Chylinski. Watch that video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/o5WV7qcZiCg

This ~21-minute track was composed live from the Causeway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, while I was watching the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch a Telstar satellite into space. Later, I edited the track in Ableton Live to add in some bells and whistles, both literally and figuratively.

I hope when you're listening you'll consider looking up to the skies with your hearts and imagination wide open.

In Motion

This track was written and recorded by yours truly during the #NASA #ParkerSolarProbe launch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Soundtrack created for this video: https://youtu.be/x3HrIItxKw4

Touch The Sun

This track was written and recorded during the #SpaceX #MeraPutih #rocketlaunch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL. 

Soundtrack was made for this video: https://youtu.be/DN87p8DxAKs

Opening Hearts Launching Rockets

Written and recorded by yours truly during the #NASA #ICESat-2 and last-ever #ULA #DeltaII rocket launch (!!) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Accompanying video and full-length version to follow.

Learn more about the mission: https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Saving The World One At A Time

Perspective

Visuals: https://youtu.be/ZqQmtiJrU4M

It's easy to slip into overwhelm. It will wrap us up as we ponder events of the past or plans for the future — a sticky web, challenging to escape. If we allow it, it will cling to our subconscious and we’ll carry it around for years. The way out is by opening ourselves up to our experience. What surrounds us right now? Be still, open our eyes wide, and we will find the beauty everywhere.⁣⁣
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During an intense self-therapy session (and the help of my dear love), I discovered that I’ve spent the majority of my life unconsciously carrying baggage related to past trauma. Upon realizing this, I stared directly into it. I spent hours time traveling to the past, watching it shape my thoughts and permeate my relationships. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life — to look directly at the source and witness its control over all of my interactions. I let this happen. For decades. Upon returning to the present, I opened my eyes wide. I found beauty everywhere. I was surrounded by love. I repeated, “All I have is gratitude. That’s all I have.”⁣⁣
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This has changed me in ways I am struggling to describe. In the days following this epiphany, I’ve immersed myself in each moment, fully grateful for each experience. No longer stuck in the web of the past or clouds of the future, I feel like all of my senses are on fire. The colors are more vibrant. There is beauty everywhere. Photons from our star are reflecting off of the water, and into my eyes. My conscious mind is able to translate this data and experience intense gratitude. Wow. How lucky that we get to record each fleeting wave. Our lives, the culmination of all of our experiences, will be whatever we make of them. I’ve come to the conclusion that this is one giant celebration of what is. And, for the first time, I feel truly free.⁣⁣
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#beauty #gratitude #reflection⁣⁣⁣⁣
#cosmos #considerthecosmos #cosmicperspective #weareawayforthecosmostoknowitself #therapy

Beauty is everywhere

The sky is half clear
Future visions clearer
Portals in a row
With destinations nearer



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Image credit: Ryan Chylinski / cosmicperspective.com

Ascend

In My Skin

Dreams

Early mornings at the port
Fishermen find solace
While curious minds gaze at the horizon
As the blackened booster gently wades in

The Return

I wrote this song yesterday after forcing pause on a chaotic storm of events. Entirely exhausted, both emotionally and physically, I recorded the vocals in a half-stupor. That magical state somewhere between awake and asleep.

I woke up pleased with the way that my nightly creation communicated the way I've been feeling in these very unsure times. I'm lucky to have such beauty, support, love, and tools of creation all around me. All I need is some pause to integrate the lessons of today so I can work toward the future we crave.

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Do you know how I feel?
I can't tell if this is real
Half awake and half asleep
What's that feeling?

Do you feel the way I do?
Is this me or is it you?
I don't know what to believe
It's taken me

I've stepped across the line and I
am clenching to the walls
Of my open heart
I wonder what is left of us
When this is said and done
All is stripped apart

Do you know what I mean?
Is it you or is it me?
Do you see what I am seeing?
Are we dreaming?

Will you take a breath for me?
There's so much noise, I can hardly think
When I look into your eyes
I slip away... into the deep

It's bound to be a painful thing
When you pour the salve
On an open wound
I wonder what is left of me
When this is said and done
Given up the ghosts... of the past

I'm unsure of what it takes
But I know it's living deep... within me
I don't know what to say
I'll start listening

What's Left

I share my demos here, before they turn into something else or perhaps remain in their raw state for eternity. <3

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