The stars above him
I can’t really pinpoint the inspiration for this song. The lyrics seemed to come almost fully-formed to me once I’d written the main verse melody. It’s not autobiographical, or even biographical; rather,
Intertwined
Fourteen years ago, I married the most wonderful woman in the world. And fourteen years later, I have finally (finally!) written a love song for her — and published it! 😍
Tribulation
A lot of my songs recently have been about mental health, anxiety, and depression. This song explores what it feels like to be “trapped by your own mind” — when you feel
Key MacOS software
I recently started at Wonde, and for the first time I’m now using a MacBook as my daily driver. The experience is fairly mundane — it’s just a computer! But there are
Autumn Heart
This is really my first track with actual singing. 😱 (Yes, that’s what I look like when I sing…) I wrote this song to explore depression and anxiety. When you have a
Light comes down
This was a fun little piece to write! It started out as I was playing with building out a drum rhythm, and then grew from there into a semi-breakbeat type of hybrid
More music on Bandcamp!
I haven’t updated my Bandcamp page in several years… But that’s just changed! I’ve uploaded music from the last year or so there. So now you can download it in super-high fidelity,
Deep River dreaming
I’ve written a few times about heading down to Western Australia’s “Great Southern” region. There’s a small bush-shack we stay at. It’s on a property surrounded by national parks, and is far
Dusk
Another piece written while I was in WA’s Great Southern region! As I was writing this piece, the evening chorus of kookaburras started up, blending in with the music. And they fitted
Phlogiston
Back in 2011, I wrote a track called “Conflagration” — a moody EDM track with lots of classical orchestration, built around an ascending baseline figure. Then in 2012, I reworked it into
Alone again
My family and I have been heading down to the south-west of Western Australia for holidays quite frequently; we have a cabin out in the bush near Walpole. I’ve found that heading
Book review: The long way to a small, angry planet – Becky Chambers
On the back of a review by Terence Eden (who somehow manages to blog every day about a wide range of interesting things!), I picked up Becky Chambers’ debut novel. I wasn’t
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