Welcome to my untitled video game album! While there are no games to be played, these segments of experimentation remind me of their energy and perhaps could be the background of some of our favorite ones. Video games primarily exist to play within a certain amount of limitations. In a way this is no different than holding an art practice whether it be music or visual art. Further knowledge of the thing is only found through doing the thing, and that is what is at the core of this project. Through practice we come closer to understanding. 

Through the scope of this work you will be brought through a series of synthetic sounds into the past, present, and future. The album starts in an almost hallucinatory space known as “Crayon Canyon”–a place that does not exist–and finishes with a version of 99 Luftballons–a “place” many of us are familiar with; perhaps in a much different embodiment that we’re used to. These two pieces intend to illustrate the dynamism of the synthesizer by starting with a somewhat recognizable tune and traveling through what becomes unrecognizable and then back into their original form, of course finding little “gems” along the way.

While I have focused primarily on visual art throughout my life, this album begins to pay tribute to what I consider my first language: that is music. The improvisations in this album are hard to categorize, but are inspired by nature, politics and experience on the dancefloor (to name a few). For the most part I categorize these moments as etudes in the way that they are repetitious and expand from simple 16 note sequences to broader melodies–always recapitulating the original theme. These soundscapes become worlds of their own and as such intend to be adventurous, experimental and in some cases meditative–inducing an almost trance-like headspace.