FUTURE LOCAL

Over the past few weeks, I have begun to shift my thought process towards composing and refining lyrics, what I had perceived as the original and unsurmountable creative challenge.  I received a second guitar track to work into my mix of "Miracle" and continued to edit...

 In the fifth installtion of my Creative Output, I have made an informed choice not post a new sketch here, but instead to share a demo I made of the sketch "alone patterns" from week 2.  I was excited when my fried Francesco sent me a guitar track that he recorde...

As the next steps become clearer, my process becomes more efficient, and I can make song sketches much faster, while experimenting with new techniques to explore the sounds I'm going for.

For this song, "Secret", I don't have an "inspiration" playlist (yet), and unlike...

I'm starting to really appreciate this endeavor to track the "ideation process" around my musical vision. 

This Creative Output #3 deadline coincided with our midterm for "ideation & prototyping" at NYU (for which we are making a musical instrument), as well as the rele...

1. Alone Patterns is an amalgamation of bluesy indie-rock and dream-pop.

2. Here are some songs that inspire the sound I am ultimately going for on this song: 

3. The lyrics for my original idea: 

Ah, ah, ah, ah

I don't mind

that every time

you come my way

you ask me why

and a...

For my first "Creative Output," I decided to compose a sketch (our sound landscape) for a song idea called, "Miracle."  I remember the melody came to me when I was walking around Chinatown sometime in the Fall of 2016, and the only words that came into my mind were "Ma...

I am creating and documenting a songwriting process for six ideas that I want to produce into an EP, or some other musical project that incorporates the songs I will make.  

I have been developing these ideas for the past four years, with very limited musical knowl...