Which Part of the Testimony Speaks to You

Which Part of the Testimony Speaks to You

Present Day, May 2026I am curious. After decades of recording the observation internally, writing in journals and letters that were not shared, making music that was not released, I am finding the experience of having the testimony be public a genuinely strange...
The Workshop on the Via dei Servi

The Workshop on the Via dei Servi

Florence, October 14, 1471He was not yet thirty and already the most unsettling mind in any room he entered. I watched him from across Verrocchio’s workshop today, where he was bent over a drawing of a water wheel, cross-hatching shadow with his left hand in a...
Ashes of Tomorrow: The Reckoning

Ashes of Tomorrow: The Reckoning

Present Day, May 2026Ashes of Tomorrow is the penultimate movement in the arc, and it is the one that allowed me to do something that the rest of the album does not allow: grieve.The other tracks are built from restraint. The architecture of the album requires the...
The Testimony Is Delivered: World Goth Day

The Testimony Is Delivered: World Goth Day

Present Day, May 23, 2026The Geometry of Ruin is in the world. World Goth Day. May 22 has passed and the album exists now in the way that things that have been released exist: no longer mine in any exclusive sense, belonging to whoever hears it and brings their own...
Three Days: On Choosing to Speak

Three Days: On Choosing to Speak

Present Day, May 2026In three days the testimony becomes public. I want to say something about what it means to choose to speak after choosing silence for a very long time.The silence was not passive. I was not absent from the world during the centuries of it. I was...