The three compositions here have been created with my own guitar, and digital samples of string instruments. For now, I consider these recordings to be a series of polished demos.  To finish them, I want real string players, because this music must be human, with human heart and soul and brilliant little human “mistakes.” However, I believe these demos do work on their own level as recorded works, so stream or download them for free by clicking the links. Also, please share this site with anyone else who would be interested.

here has been produced in my home studio.  It is based on a kind of hybrid classical quintet:  violin, viola, cello, acoustic bass and guitar feedback.  Some of it also includes my original nature recordings.

The free music I share

Much of the inspiration for this music comes from my love of nature.  I would like these compositions to be a mirror for us to view our relationship with the planet.  We now know we are living in the Anthropocene Age, a time where our species is changing the balance of Gaia, and not for the better. I want to show that we are part of nature and that we must find a way of living in harmony with it.

These are dark times, not only for our environment, but in terms of the growing tide of authoritarianism in our world. I believe we have no choice but to fight back, and keep struggling for justice. I know I must do what I can, as an artist, as a father, to leave a better world for my son. Together, we must all find the cracks that lead us back into the light.

Scatter the Dark Matter

This composition is made up of violin, viola, cello, acoustic bass, guitar feedback and guitar e-bow.  It has five movements and is 18 minutes long.  It has evolved over five years from Electronica to Contemporary Classical, with doses of Dance, Dub and Ambient music.

I have always loved the night.  The dark silhouettes of trees in deep twilight.  The moon, the blanket of stars and the deep mysteries of the cosmos.   I like to think of this composition as a sonic look into astronomy.  I hear it as a big bang, with red shifted planets, black holes, dark energy, and microwave radiation.  It is an exploration of space - the space around us, and the inner space of our hearts.

City Forest 1 and City Forest 2

I live on the border of a City Forest.  There is wind and rain and crows and jays and trees and bulldozers and saws and helicopters and an oil refinery.  It is drenched in beauty.  It is wrenched by industry.  Still, I love to walk there with my partner and our 7 year old boy.  It fills us with awe.  And some dread.  This forest, like all forests in the world is threatened by our species’ failure to respect the earth.  This recording is my attempt to create music which explores our fraught relationship with nature.

City Forest #1 and City Forest #2 include violin, viola, cello, acoustic bass, guitar feedback and audio recordings of the forests in my neighbourhood of Capitol Hill, Burnaby, BC.  Both works are about 15 minutes in length with movements that dissolve into each other.

These compositions are meant to reflect the beauty of this forest.  Rain on leaves.  Birds in song.  Wind on a tree trunk.  But they also explore conflict - between acoustic and electric, music and sound, and between nature and the human world. 

Future Work

I am writing a brass quintet suite dedicated to the heroic people of Ukraine, as they fight to survive the murderous onslaught of Russian aggression, and American betrayal.

Also, I have a number of folk / rock songs which I am planning to record, including some environmental songs for kids.