Dronescapes

My goal with this project was to make the compositions as gentle and comforting as possible. No filler, nothing extraneous. Please enjoy while you're riding the subway, reading a book, walking through some grass, or drifting off to sleep. I recommend not listening too loudly, but to each their own!

Featured on Rivulets & Reveries (103.3 FM Bentonville, Arkansas) and the Spotify playlists “Ambient Beauty,” “Sleep Music,” and “Relax.”

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The Youngest

I created this album as my “MA in Sound Arts and Industries” capstone project for the Northwestern University Class of 2021.

Written, performed, recorded, and engineered entirely by me. Thank you so much to my wonderful features: Nico Fernandez, Sourlyx, and PJ McCormick. Go look them up! They are each wonderful and super talented.

You can learn much more about the project here.

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My Slow Pace

My debut album has finally arrived! Find it wherever you listen to music. Here is an excerpt from the release details:

“‘My Slow Pace’ is who I am as a musician. It is an exhaustive demonstration of the sounds by which I have come to define my musical identity. For that reason, it is easily my most personal release yet. Given that, thank you so very much for listening. I've kept so many of these songs to myself for a while now, and have shied away from completing many of them because of musical insecurities. In multiple ways, this is me sharing my voice. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for listening.”

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The Caretaker Inspirations: Sample-Based Ambient Compositions

This album and the program/coding at its core were the final project for a class I took in college called "Sound Synthesis" taught by Alex Inglizian at Northwestern University. Taking heavy inspiration from “Everywhere at the end of time” by The Caretaker, these tracks are a series of improvisations made with a software instrument I designed using the program Max. These are unedited, live recordings of me sampling and altering the source material in each track's title while adjusting sequencers, modulators, and droning synthesizers. I did a live performance for my class as well, but very sadly it was not recorded.

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For Those Like Me

*Remastered and rereleased on December 1st, 2020. Original details:

This album was the result of several months of listening to and experimenting with ambient music. I had just started my abroad semester in Granada, and I was feeling completely overwhelmed. I couldn’t wrap my head around how I had fourteen weeks ahead of me, when minutes often went by so slowly. On a smaller scale, I was feeling inundated with all of my assignments, and even though I was more competent with my Spanish than I give myself credit for at the time, the amount of reading remained daunting. I needed something to soothe me while I worked. I reached out to my friend Max for ambient music recommendations, and he started me off with Huerco S., Ian William Craig, William Basinski, and Gas. I quickly started exploring the genre on my own, discovering new artists and listening to their music every day; these albums quickly became close companions.

One night in October, after a few hours of experimenting on my own piece, I couldn’t sleep. My mind was racing, and I had so many ideas. I had just created my first ambient track, a four minute demo that would eventually become the opening song of this album. “For Those Like Me” was eventually released on February 22nd, 2019.

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Movement

The inspirations for these songs, given their scattered nature, came from all over. My roommates and I had started a Minecraft world for kicks, which lead me on another nostalgic dive into C418's incredible soundtrack; this inspired lots of the delicate video-game-sounding piano parts, especially those on “Autumn Snow”" and “Movement.” I also drew a lot of inspiration from producer George Daniel. His work for The 1975, as well as Dirty Hit label-mates The Japanese House and No Rome, directly inspired the electronic percussion and anthemic synth sounds on “Movement,” “Hear Me,” and “Fantasy.” I saw Gaspar Noé's film Climax while I was abroad in Granada, and it stayed with me throughout the entire year. I rewatched it with my best friends on Halloween and began working on “Selva!” almost immediately after. I watched the remake of Suspiria as well, which, in combination with Thom Yorke's soundtrack, inspired “Mütterhaus.” I started working on “Chambers” after listening to Bon Iver's new album i,i. It was originally just the middle section, a pretty complex fifty second blend of rapidly warping synths legitimately titled “i,i.” It stayed like that until the end of this project, when I became inspired to give it more life after seeing how far the other tracks had come. Since this project doesn't really have sonic cohesion, I'm hesitant to call it an album. It's more of just a dip into what has been inspiring me lately.

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Oldies

This is a compilation of songs from mostly 2018 that I uploaded directly to my SoundCloud, at the time considering them less impressive and commercial than the rest of my work. Eventually, I realized that I didn't want them to go to waste, and that they all had a pretty good amount of potential in their own special way! So, I polished each of them up a bit, fixing the mixes and occasionally adjusting the instrumentation where I deemed it creatively necessary (e.g. I had an urge I couldn’t resist). They are, however, more or less the way they were in 2018 upon completion. You'll find all sorts of stuff in this small little project ! here's a little description of each of them in *chronological* order (why chronological? well, it kind of tells a story...)”

Listen to the project, and read descriptions of each individual track, here.

season six EP

Looking back on it now, “season six” - a reference to a joke amongst my friends that our life as a group in Evanston is a television show, which each quarter being a new season - was my first attempt at experimentation. It was the spring of my sophomore year, and I wanted to try new things and learn more about making music. I decided to make a short EP that was the stylistic opposite of Humming. I wanted to make four songs that were each entirely unique, something I would go on to do again with my mini-album “Movement” a year later. What I ended up with was a synth-heavy video-game cut, an ambient acoustic guitar piece, a noise track with blistering guitars, and an anthemic indie rock instrumental. For the first time, I was making songs entirely on my computer.

I remember finishing these songs while sitting on a bench in a park looking out at Lake Michigan. I was happy with the songs, but I was already thinking ahead. I knew that the project was going to push me even further from a technical standpoint, and I was absolutely right. “Blocks” was fundamental in helping me understand new hardware and replicate some of my favorite video game music, "Waves" helped inspire me to dive into ambient music and make my first full-length album, "Nightmare" was by far the wildest thing I had ever done and showed me that the sky was the limit, and "Wake Up!" was the inception of my rock-oriented sound.

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Humming EP

It's been over two years since I released these four songs, and it fills me with such joy to see how far I’ve come. I wrote these songs during my freshman year of college and then slept on them for a while. I had only just begun seriously writing my own songs, and I don’t really know why I hadn’t before. I had dabbled, writing a loose song here and there for a high school girlfriend, or brainstorming some loose ideas with a friend for a potential band that never came to fruition. Yet, I never sat down and wrote any for myself. Freshman year, I was inspired by my friendships and a blossoming romance and youthful wonder and all of that good eighteen-year old bliss. Feeling creatively inspired the following summer, I decided to try my best to bring some of my songs to life. All I had was GarageBand, my computer, and a microphone I had bought years earlier. At 10:45pm on July 10th, 2017, I picked the four best song ideas I had and got to work.

After publishing “Humming” on my SoundCloud September 1st, 2017, it officially became the first musical project that I ever released. You can still find it on there today! This project has alway meant so much to me, and it has been a foundation for my musical endeavors ever since. Hopefully I've grown since then, but if not, that's okay too. I happen to think this stuff is great on its own.

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