Sanctified Hunger: What the Album Is

Sanctified Hunger: What the Album Is

Present Day, June 9, 2026Let me be precise about what Sanctified Hunger is and what it is not.It is not an atheist album. I am not arguing that God does not exist. I have had five hundred and sixty-eight years to gather evidence on that question and it remains...
The Weight of Having Spoken

The Weight of Having Spoken

Present Day, June 4, 2026The Geometry of Ruin has been in the world for two weeks. I am still adjusting to what it means to have placed the testimony in public hands, to have allowed something that lived for years in my own accumulated observation to become a thing...
The Witness Has Testified

The Witness Has Testified

Present Day, June 3, 2026The Geometry of Ruin has been in the world for eleven days. I have been processing what it means to have placed the testimony in public hands and to have received, in return, the responses of the people who have heard it.What has surprised me...
The Ember and the Children

The Ember and the Children

Present Day, May 2026Children of the Ember closes the album because the geometry is not complete without the closing movement, and the closing movement is not ruin but emergence.I have watched the Black Death move through Europe in the 14th century. I was not present...
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...