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...
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...