Inspired in name and in spirit by Silicon Valley, California, this primarily electronic track captures the essence of productive achievement in America's freest industry: technology. From its slow, deliberate opening to its ultimately faster, clean and serene conclusion, it is a snapshot of the exponential pace at which technology accelerates human flourishing and happiness.

This Sacred Ego

Silicon Symphony

Pensive and frustrated, yet unflinchingly resolute, this piano and guitar-heavy track reminds us that the battle of ideas will be a long and difficult one. The individual effort of every human being, no matter how vast or how modest their ability and intellect, matters. The greatest tribute to life is to live it, regardless of how many others would try to take it from you.

Pandora's Mirror

I considered many piano pieces to include on this album as a closing track, and kept being drawn back to Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi. It inspires in me feelings of hope, serenity and wistfulness in equal measure, and serves as a fitting close to the album. No matter how difficult life is, no matter the magnitude or number of obstacles placed in your way by others, keep your head high and your feet moving. Let no man nor any corrupt idea block your road. Your life is yours and yours alone; rise up and live it.

Nuvole Bianche

Mixing elements of melodic metalcore with melancholy strings and futuristic rock riffs, this track paints a sobering picture of the valiant but ultimately futile struggle of an undefined, inadequately defended, yet deeply heroic sense of life against the irrational and the malevolent. An event horizon is the "point of no return" surrounding a black hole, the point at which no substance, not even light, can escape its gravitational pull; the moral code of altruism is just as destructive and nearly as inescapable in the modern world, but we are not yet at the event horizon - there is still time to turn away from death and toward life.

Event Horizon

Upbeat and complex, Escape Velocity is a tribute to the Aristotelian school of logic and philosophy, paying homage to the power of reason - and only reason - to move humanity away from the darkness of mysticism and toward a proud existence as rational, noble beings of limitless imagination and potential.

Escape Velocity

The battle for mankind's future is not an economic or a political battle, but an ideological one; the students of this generation are the politicians and business leaders of the next. Ideas move the world, more so than any other force, and it is the toxic idea of sacrifice - of oneself to others, or of others to oneself - that must be fought, and fought hard, with everything we have. The ethical code of sacrifice is laying siege to the very existence of humanity, and it must be countered, crushed, and replaced with a life-serving code of rational self-interest.

Altruism's Broken Siege

I'm a 30 year old dude with stars in my eyes. It kinda hurts.

In addition to making music, I also write short and long fiction, primarily horror, mystery, noir, and fantasy.

Metriste

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