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Part 1: Reboot

This is album #1 in a series of alien invasion concept albums and tells the tale of an alien invasion from the human point of view.

This album was recorded entirely in the digital realm using virtual synthesizers and Ableton Live. I worked on the album for an elapsed two years before release. Prior to the release of the album, the first three tracks were released as singles. “Midnight” and “Stealth” went to #1 and “They Walk Among Us” went to #2 on the SoundClick electronica charts.

Part 2: I Hear Your Signals

This is album #2 in a series of alien invasion concept albums containing original electronica, dark ambient, and experimental tracks. This second album in the series, released in 2010, is a retelling of Album #1 – but – from the alien point of view inverted emotional curves!

This album was recorded entirely in the digital realm using virtual synthesizers and Ableton Live. The songs on this album were created using keyboards, grid controllers, theremin (as a controller), and unique visual and tangible controllers such as the Tenori-On and Percussa AudioCubes. This album is filled with a variety of songs from downtempo, EBM, to experimental tracks with electronic tonalities, to songs with melodies that live between keys of well-tempered keyboards. The song “Dark Signals” went to #1 on the SoundClick electronica charts.

Part 3: Fear Cannot Save Us

This third album, released in 2014, tells the story of the transformation of a human to an alien hybrid being. The album takes you through our hero’s journey as they rapidly coevolve and become self-aware and aware of their mission for revolution. Assuming evolution does not imply direction, could the change benefit mankind?

On another level this album is also allegorical. It’s about tolerance for people who seem different and strange to us. It’s also about people accepting change in themselves. On a third level, the album and the series are a nod to my love for classic Sci-fi films.

Mastered by Gannon Kashiwa. Cover photo and design by Mark Mosher with art direction assistance from Dave Weed (Adwerks) and Victoria Lundy (Cuttlefish Arts).

Released March 12, 2014

No Ghosts. Just Fear.

This album contains five original instrumental horror soundscapes. Listen in the dark on a great sound system with a sub-woofer or with good headphones (not ear buds) and let your imagination run wild! Then remember, it’s all in your head :^)

The dark ambient sounds and music within these arrangements was created and performed on various virtual instruments. In some cases original audio recordings were used as sources then re-shaped with granular synthesis to turn these recordings into playable expressive instruments with huge sonic range and motion.

Mastered by Gannon Kashiwa
Cover Design by Dave Weed
Cover Photo by Mark Mosher

Released October 27, 2012

Live at Mountain Skies 2019

This is a live concert recording from my original electronic music set performed on May 4th, 2019 at the Mountain Skies 2019 festival near Asheville, NC. These are the songs are presented as I performed them to 2-track during the show with no edits other than trimming and fading to break the continuous set up into this 5 songs album with minimal gaps.

Released May 31, 2019

Disconnected

“Disconnected” is a new electro single and science fiction theme. It contains lots of synth ear candy dancing around in the stereo field for your headphones, big glitchy beats from classic drum machines, and some chiptune sprinkled on top to make your day a little brighter.

It Doesn’t Have To Hate Us To Use Our Molecules

This dark cinematic electronica song was inspired by James Barrat’s book “Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era” (www.jamesbarrat.com ).

This is really a live version of the song recorded in two sessions – the first on June 4th, 2014, the second on July 19th, 2014. I first sequenced the underpinnings of the songs then rehearsed controlling the arrangement on-the-fly and playing the lead lines as well as some sound manipulation in real-time. Once I felt good about my performance, I recorded the song directly to a digital recorder (Zoom H2n). I then picked my favorite takes from each session and combined them using Ableton Live and only used light mastering FX to sweeten the mix. I made a video recording of the first session as a teaser for the release of this single which you can watch here youtu.be/IN6p9QhScKw.

Space​-​Time Distortion Near Track Number 8

I discovered a space-time distortion while visiting Chicago. The location of the anomaly is at track 8 at Union Station. Made from field recordings from a visit to Chicago with Octatrack and Nord Lead 4.

Here is a video from the recording session.

Instantiate

”From the barren nanoscapes inside our personal devices come furtive anthems hummed by those digital servants who will one day be our overlords…”.

“Instantiate” is an experimental ambient EP containing a piece with four movements composed for two Octatracks. It was first performed live at Electro-Music NY Festival on September 7th, 2014. This is a recording of that performance with each movement as its own track.

Track 1: Stasis – A still, slow moving “present time”. Drones and melodies with an occasional perturbation to foreshadow what is coming.

Track 2: Stirrings – Bursts of brief intelligence and control come and go. Perturbations of a minimal but ominous atmosphere. These are simple at first, but evolve toward short periods of chaos that quickly burn out.

Track 3: Birth – The A.I. begins to build and grow recursively. Structures surface and are repeated and elaborated. While the programmer looks for signs of intelligence from the A.I., the the A.I. is rapidly learning by reviewing and attempting to emulate recordings of a child speaking.

Track 4: Childhood – The A.I. recognizes its own existence. Consciousness leads to experimentation, gentle but awkward at first, with a growing edginess and over-sensitivity that suggests intrusiveness, lack of predictability and danger. The countdown to Super Artificial Intelligence has begun. 

Recorded September 4th, 2014