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...
78 Minutes: The Complete Arc

78 Minutes: The Complete Arc

Present Day, May 2026The album is 78 minutes. Twelve tracks. I want to describe the arc briefly, because I think the arc is the point and the individual tracks only fully make sense within the arc.The album begins with the dream and ends with the children. The...
Why Now: The Coordinates

Why Now: The Coordinates

Present Day, April 2026People ask why I am speaking now. The question deserves a direct answer.I broke my silence because I recognized the coordinates. Not in a mystical sense: in the specific sense that I have watched, from various distances, the progression of a...
The Testimony Prepared

The Testimony Prepared

Present Day, March 2026The album is called The Geometry of Ruin. It is not a pleasant title. It was not designed to be pleasant. It was designed to be accurate.I have been watching the geometry for five centuries. The geometry is not the collapse itself: it is the...