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...
Why April 24

Why April 24

Present Day, April 2026Black Sun Rising arrives April 24. I have been asked why this song, and why before the album, and I want to answer the question directly.The album, which comes May 22, is a complete thing: twelve movements through the geometry from the...
The Forms That Bearing Witness Takes

The Forms That Bearing Witness Takes

Present Day, March 2026For centuries I documented in journals. The journals from my early years in Florence are careful and specific: names, dates, conversations, the details of events that I suspected would be significant before I could be certain they were. The...