I help people discover they can do more than they thought they could. I write music. I think Excel is the best thing Microsoft ever produced. I speak executive, nerd, finance, janitor, design, code, and process. I meditate underwater in sixty-minute sessions. I know that “I” and “We” are required at different times for different things. I’m the quiet dude you’ll tell your life story to at a party. I love finding possibilities and putting old things together in new ways. I ride a GSX-R750 when the weather’s nice.
- Mid-brained, multi-disciplinary, servant-leader.
- Artistic geek or geeky artist, your choice.
- Corporate jester, experiential designer, and change agent.
- Coach. Mentor. Mentee.
- Perpetual student and explorer. Aspirational polymath.
- Speaker, listener, cheerleader, and organizer.
- Writer, editor, composer, remixer, synthesist.
- Avid reader, gamer, and purveyor of pop-culture references.
Let’s work together on something cool.
Recent Articles
Faint Glyphs
It’s already late in the evening and I need to get started on the next piece, so I’m going to try and limit my diversions. This one had a really weird process. I think the end result is decent, and one that I suspect I’ll listen to more than I…
Stet
I started the writing session by playing with XO, intending to do a beat thing. I played, but didn’t really get any traction with anything. Then I played with various instruments, focusing on some of the synths that I don’t use very often. Again, nothing really stuck. I went through…
Put On Your Best Dress
There’s an old saying in the Song-A-Day community that week three is when things get weird. I say that I’ve been starting in week three on day one for the last few years. Today is a good example. It’s a sad reality of the way software is licensed and copy-protection-infected…
Segmentation Fault
After getting home from coffee with Darin and Lizzi, I was both in a good mood and over-caffeinated (Mary and I had already had coffee with a friend earlier in the day, plus what I’d had before that…). I went to the studio and did a final listen-through to Mare…
Mare Undarum
Well. This is it. This is the day I finally can’t do it. The day that I don’t write or post anything entirely because I have nothing in me, instead of because of some extenuating circumstance. Well, ok, that obviously didn’t happen, because there’s a post that you’re reading and…
We Were the Kings
I’m hoping to make this an abbreviated entry today – I’m actually (finally!) on schedule. I started working in the evening and it was… not good. It started with deep ambient. Then went to rhythmic ambient. Then ambient techno. Then glitch. The glitch thing had promise, if only a glimpse…
Mary Anne
There are a couple of special days in Song-A-Day. Sometimes, it’s a random thing where someone issues a general challenge of some sort: ”Disco Monday,” “Write something with this as the title,” and, of course, there’s the non-mandatory cover day on the 22nd, but the halfway point is Valentines Day….
The Crossing
As has become a pattern so far this month, or at least for the last 5-6 days, I start out floundering, decide on just something to get started, and end up with a piece that actually kind of works. Sometimes the initial ideas are more baked than others, but none…
Right?
I was happy with yesterday’s track and had a reasonable chunk of time to experiment. I’m starting to hit that blank page anxiety feeling every day, but so far they’ve all turned out. Despite being re-committed to making music that I want to make instead of what I think people…
Climbing Crow Hill
Having finished A Monkey on Your Back relatively early in the evening, I enjoyed several hours just messing around with sounds. Monkey wasn’t an unpleasant experience in any way, but aside from trying to reach an audience and make some money, I love creating music and exploring sounds. It’s fun….
A Monkey on Your Back
In case you were of the mistaken assumption that when music comes to me in a dream, it’s majestic or deep or the words of the cosmos or my innermost voices rising to the surface, I present today’s song.1Ok, this one might be one of those innermost voices, but that should…
Auturgy
Three Hours Later In the interest of preservation and self-teaching, I have left what I wrote in its original state below, but here’s an addendum. After posting this entry, I had a cup of coffee and took Olive to the dog park for about an hour. I came back, had…