2014
Urizen Awake
A philosophical piece built on a complex instrumental architecture ), which is unusual enough to shape the whole sonic character. The title references William Blake's personification of cold reason, and the...
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Songs Tagged: consciousness
11 songs
December 23, 2024
Sodom Rd #87
A searching song about freedom, knowledge, and the pull of what lies beyond the known world. The title keeps one foot in a real place, but the feeling is larger: restlessness, curiosity, and the urge to break...
Rough Working Demo
January 19, 2024
Waterfall
A love song The verses move between intimate physical detail and a philosophical claim: the universe becomes aware through us, and we belong at home in that awareness. The instrumental bridge repeats twice...
Rough Working Demo
January 6, 2024
How Far
A searching song about the limits of consciousness and how they feel from the inside. The verses move between the mechanical and the cosmic — a heartbeat, Saturn's rings, a painted sky — and the refrain asks...
January 19, 2023
Ring Around the Lizard
A song about the limbic system — the reptile brain — and how it limits reason, shapes belief, and gets exploited by media and religion. Five verses work through different contexts: church, news, social media....
Rough Working Demo
November 21, 2021
The Jay
A window-side meditation on a blue jay and the mystery of awareness itself. The bird becomes a way of asking what, exactly, is seeing and being seen.
August 12, 2018
Barely Awake
A song about spending most of life half-awake to what matters. Its final question gives the whole piece its ache.
Rough Working Demo
January 14, 2021
Sandman
A philosophical song, built on a three-against-four rhythmic feel. The "sandman" is the false comfort of simple answers, and the bridge makes the counter-observation: "streaked with beauty, it reeks of...
January 14, 2022
Relief
A meditative song about the stories people tell in order to survive fear, uncertainty, and the knowledge of mortality. Rather than dismissing those stories, it wonders how they can become part of what makes us...
Rough Working Demo
February 10, 2019
Reflection
A searching, introspective song about the divided self and the feeling of being watched from within. It moves from ordinary awareness into something more mysterious, then turns toward love, where the question...
2007
When
A searching song about belief, denial, and the stories people tell themselves to avoid what is in front of them. Rather than preaching, it keeps circling the same hard question until it becomes the song's...