Music
My music project, Polyatomic, has been going relatively strong over the past few years. I decided to release an album of music since I had more than enough material to give it a try and to see what response I'd get.
You can find everything on Spotify, YouTube or your favourite digital service.
Solarium covered the stuff I had written from 2003 to 2014. It was released in 2014.
Terminal coved some past stuff but was mostly new music I had writing flying between Toronto and Portland. It covers the themes of travel and was relesed in 2016.
Icebergs was the result of music I was going to write for visual art display, that never happened. The concept that it evolved into was to write tracks, and then strip them back into their ambient version which I did for two of the tracks which were quite haunting.. This album covers some deeply personal topics such as leaving Newfoundland when I was younger, a friend's drug abuse that destroyed him, and the COVID pandemic through electronic soundscapes. It was an incredibly difficult album for me to get right. I think it turned out amazingly. It is sometimes hard to go back and listen to it, but I did recently and I was blown away by it. It really did cover how I was feeling at the time. Icebergs was released in 2020.
Techknow was inspired by the Berlin music scene, specifically a night at the Berghain or the Lab.oratory. To counter the overthinking of Icebergs, and how meticulous I got, Techknow needed to be mindless pure techno. 3am at the Lab is the highlight track. It was put together through long periods of not being creative. I wanted to write the tracks quickly, get them done quickly. I think through the overthinking I did on Icebergs, I learned heaps about how to correct sound, master an album and get some crazy effects going. This EP really wasn't about getting things right and over produced, it was about building something creative, artistic and almost crazy. It was released in 2023.
Strength is the spiritual successor to Icebergs with a bit of Techknow thrown in. It is an upbeat album, and while it deals with some of my feelings of the past 5 to 6 years, it's the celebration side of, I'm still here, I'm resilient, I am stronger than i give myself credit for. The songs all, pretty much have a duality to them - Video games as the metaphor for life; and processing where I'm at in life. It is going to be released this year and while I've had some tracks that have been tough to get right, it's not on the level of Icebergs. If Icebergs is high art, then Strength is pop despite both being deep albums. I guess what I've learned in to channel emotions into my art.
You can find everything on Spotify, YouTube or your favourite digital service.
Solarium covered the stuff I had written from 2003 to 2014. It was released in 2014.
Terminal coved some past stuff but was mostly new music I had writing flying between Toronto and Portland. It covers the themes of travel and was relesed in 2016.
Icebergs was the result of music I was going to write for visual art display, that never happened. The concept that it evolved into was to write tracks, and then strip them back into their ambient version which I did for two of the tracks which were quite haunting.. This album covers some deeply personal topics such as leaving Newfoundland when I was younger, a friend's drug abuse that destroyed him, and the COVID pandemic through electronic soundscapes. It was an incredibly difficult album for me to get right. I think it turned out amazingly. It is sometimes hard to go back and listen to it, but I did recently and I was blown away by it. It really did cover how I was feeling at the time. Icebergs was released in 2020.
Techknow was inspired by the Berlin music scene, specifically a night at the Berghain or the Lab.oratory. To counter the overthinking of Icebergs, and how meticulous I got, Techknow needed to be mindless pure techno. 3am at the Lab is the highlight track. It was put together through long periods of not being creative. I wanted to write the tracks quickly, get them done quickly. I think through the overthinking I did on Icebergs, I learned heaps about how to correct sound, master an album and get some crazy effects going. This EP really wasn't about getting things right and over produced, it was about building something creative, artistic and almost crazy. It was released in 2023.
Strength is the spiritual successor to Icebergs with a bit of Techknow thrown in. It is an upbeat album, and while it deals with some of my feelings of the past 5 to 6 years, it's the celebration side of, I'm still here, I'm resilient, I am stronger than i give myself credit for. The songs all, pretty much have a duality to them - Video games as the metaphor for life; and processing where I'm at in life. It is going to be released this year and while I've had some tracks that have been tough to get right, it's not on the level of Icebergs. If Icebergs is high art, then Strength is pop despite both being deep albums. I guess what I've learned in to channel emotions into my art.