introspective modern composition · piano
A quiet room, an English house, and time that will not stop.
It's introspective modern composition, played on the piano, and if I'm honest it's a diary about perpetual time that I decided to score instead of write.
The records — “Perpetuus” — are entries, really. One continuous notebook.
Erik Satie · Claude Debussy · Ludovico's quiet school · Federico Mompou · Harold Budd
I make music about perpetual time and stillness, and I mean every note — but I won't pretend it's free.
Choosing quiet can look, from outside, like disappearing. Some days the calm I write about is the calm I most need myself.
If you make gentle music and feel overlooked, you are not doing it wrong. That is just the shape of it.
“Perpetuus” began with “perpetuus” as a phrase before it was a record — a small thing I kept circling.
The piano found the shape before I did; I stayed out of the way.
Made small, on purpose.
Lately everything I write bends back toward domestic materials.
The piano does the thinking here; I only choose what to keep.
I hope it meets you somewhere quiet.
Every so often I play somewhere tiny around Germany — a back room, a little hall, once a kitchen. Never big, never really advertised. If you'd host one, message me.
In the lineage of Erik Satie · Claude Debussy · Ludovico's quiet school · Federico Mompou · Harold Budd
The piano carries everything here; there's nowhere for it to hide.
