: Composer, Pianist, Sound Designer, Producer

This collection of pieces explores five dreamt environments that explore the darkest depths and the highest heights. These dreams highlight “places between time”, a conception of a pause that could be compared to a Shakespearean soliloquy. The first track, Prelude, brings listeners into a cave crisscrossed by minecart tracks. The listener flips a switch and eventually triggers a mechanized piano in the distance, which plays a robotic tune as the mine begins to glow with activity again. The second movement transitions the listener into a frozen snapshot of the final moments of the 1453 siege of Constantinople. The Armenian Duduk is featured prominently, and wordless choirs sing of a doomed civilization. The third track drags the listener from the realm of the living into the realm of the dead, which is portrayed as a mine evocative of Tolkien’s Khazad-Dum, devoid of any signs of life save skeletons and the rattle of chains in the wind. The fourth movement lifts the listener from the depths of the cave and onto the shore of a lake surrounded by tall pine trees. A campfire burns as the sun sets over the distant mountains. Then comes the fifth movement, in which the sky suddenly snatches the listener off of their feet and into its expanse, throwing them up into a place where the clouds and the stars meet. The planets and galaxies of afar glimmer as a dome over a bed of pink cotton clouds. But this realm only exists for a short time before being overtaken by the night - or the point at which we wish day goodbye. The listener stands entranced in a memory, looking at their reflection in ice that is resigned to a pale imitation of something once meaningful. The album was composed, performed, and produced over the course of about two weeks, and as of January 2024 remains one of the most popular compositions in the composer’s online fan base.