I am a composer living in Chicago. I write music for people to hear and to enjoy. It's not entertainment, it's just music... music for people's sake.
I value freedom. In my music, that means that I get to all the things I love to do and none of the self-sacrifice and prostitution.
"Do what you love and the rest will follow."
There's a part of me that believes in that ancient notion that art can actually make us better. And so music has power: maybe it can contribute to our self-awareness; or maybe it can dull our senses and lull us into a state of compliance. I may never achieve it, but I am aiming for the former.
Music should be part familiar and part new and foreign. When we expose ourselves to the New, we reawaken our brains.
Some days I feel like I'm still gestating, and others I feel like I'm being birthed. I feel like I'm on the cusp of something amazing; it looks like a vast darkness with no clear path ahead. There's no going back; I'll let you know when I get there--when I figure out where there is.
And so I compose and make music and find things and lose things.
And I live live in a state of becoming, just like you. I listen to music that I like and write what I listen to.