And Thou Shalt Call His Name: Sixty-Four Names, One Roll Call
How many names of Jesus can you sing in thirty seconds? The chorus does thirteen. The whole song does sixty-four.
How many names of Jesus can you sing in thirty seconds? The chorus does thirteen. The whole song does sixty-four.
I believe music is math. Not in a vague, poster-on-the-band-room-wall way. In a literal way: pitch is frequency, rhythm is division, harmony is ratios, and a song is a very precise set of instructions for moving air. "Note for Note" is my attempt to make a song where you can see all of that at once.
Every line of this song is real business jargon... and the video takes all of it literally.
Nobody sits down and decides to write about a waxy jaguar at a frozen quay. The letters pick the nouns for you
This album started as a series of dumb bets with myself. Each one was a dare and I strove to turn each one into a viable song. After a few weeks, I had a folder full of word games and no idea what they had to do with each other.
The story behind "Gordon Strong," a song for my nephew
I asked Grok to examine Ecclesiastes 1 verse by verse and connect each part to the technology industry. Anyone who claims the current era is unique has not read the source material.
I made an AI-generated lyric music video with lip-synced pig latin just to see if it could be done.
Nearly forty years ago a professor told me everything I wrote was in the key of C, and it took me a week to prove him wrong. This project is the same instinct on a longer timeline: notice the limitation, be a little embarrassed, and then sit down and do the work - honestly, out loud, and in every key I can find.