Five Centuries of the Same War

Five Centuries of the Same War

Various, 1096 to presentI want to list some of what I have witnessed, briefly, because the list is the argument.I was not present for the First Crusade but I have spoken with scholars who documented it. I was present for the later ones, at various distances. I watched...
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...
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...