New Music Posted

Life and music have been keeping me happily occupied, so I haven't had the chance to post any of my recent music on this site for quite a while. This evening I uploaded 4 pieces I've done. Three of them are remixes that I entered in various music competitions. One of them is a song I wrote for my girlfriend back in June. You can download them on the music page.

More and More - Song for Katie Legge
Open Mic Night - People's Remix Competition - 2nd Place
What a Run! - Dwelling of Duels - 3rd Place
Thexder's Crusade - People's Remix Competition - 1st Place

Steam Palace - New Remix Released

The deadline was rapidly approaching for March's Dwelling of Duels music competition. I was planning on spending a lot of time working on a really fun and creative rock entry, but needless to say I quickly found that the deadline (3/26) was right in front of me, and I had made almost no progress. Not wanting to give up, I decided to see if I could remix another piece, so Sunday night (3/25) I began looking through my library of video game music, looking for a good piece to remix. I finally decided on a piece by around 11:30, and worked as hard as I could on learning the piece, arranging my remix and recording as much of the guitar tracks as I could. Skipping sleep, and working hard all afternoon gave me just enough time to finish my remix and turn it in. Though it wasn't very well received, I'm really happy with how it turned out. It's got a nice raw energy and a guitar solo that I had a lot of fun writing and performing. For only having 10 hours to work on it, I am extremely pleased with the result.

You can listen to Steam Palace on my music page.

New Original Composition

This past Monday I had a little time to kill, so I was trying out some different chord progressions on my piano and a melody started to emerge. After playing around with it for a bit, I knew I was onto something good, so I started trying to arrange it as an actual piece. In the evening, I was talking to a friend on the phone, and she was having a really hard time. After chatting with her I went back to writing the piece, and I decided to dedicate it to her. The piece is called "As The Tears Flow" and it's about the times in life when things just seem too painful. The melody is what I use to express those emotions, but there are a couple places in the piece where a ray of hope shines through, since in the end, everything is going to be alright. Musically, it's pretty minimalistic, and I hope you enjoy it.

The piece is available for listening and download on my music page.

Emergence Released!

Finally, nearly a month and a half later than my original target date, Emergence is finished and printed. Yesterday a box with 100 CDs arrived and is now sitting in my room. Although things took a little bit longer than I expected, I am very pleased with the results, and I feel very confident about the quality of this release. If you haven't heard any of my tracks yet, do yourself a favor and listen to the 3 preview tracks that are available for download on my Music page. If you like what you hear, make sure you buy a CD for yourself and maybe 1 for a friend. If you don't like the music, then buy a whole bunch of CDs and give them to your enemies. Enjoy!

Album Printing

Finally, after a lot of finagling with the CD duplication company, the disk and artwork are finalized and ready to go on their end. Emergence is being printed and shipped to me right now. The CDs should arrive in a day or two.

Emergence - Album is Gold!

Emergence, my first album is now gold! On Saturday I finally finished preparing and mastering the actual disk. Today I put the final touches on the album art, and contacted my printing company. Tomorrow I will send the master disk and all the associated paperwork and soon I will have CDs ready for distribution! I am very excited!