I have always loved music, much like many people. From the time I was a very young child, it seems like there was commonly music playing around the house, and on weekends, when cleaning and rearranging and other big chores happened, there was always music, all day long.
I can remember far back enough to recall mornings, riding to a day-care in my father's suburban, and hearing "Heart of Glass", by Blondie, on the radio. That, and "Le Freak" by Chic, are my earliest musical memories, if we don't count Sesame Street, Electric Company, and other kids' shows of the era.
For the first part of my life, listening to music was quite enough for me. My sister played a couple of instruments, most notably the clarinet, and I had other relatives who played guitar (including my father, though I don't remember ever hearing him play, I just remember seeing photos from his time in VietNam, where he had a guitar with him), drums, I think there was someone in there who played a flute, and I had a cousin back East who played the violin.
The point that I am getting at is that I was surrounded by music, but was never interested in making music, until I was in my early teens and everyone wanted to play the electric guitar. Thinking that learning to play the guitar would make me cool, I whined and complained and moaned until my parents bought me one and then, predicatbly, didn't stick with it long enough to learn much (though I do at least partly blame that on a nasty hand injury that the doctors thought would probably limit the dexterity in my left hand...they were mostly wrong, of course) and I didn't try another instrument until I was in my late teens, when I picked up hand-drumming, and other forms of percussion music.
After years of playing doubeks, djembes, experimenting with timpanis, snares, timbales and all other manner of drums, I started playing kits, and spent quite a few years annoying the neighbors while I did my best to turn myself into a human metronome.
And so it went for quite a number of years.
Fast forward to late 2020. I have, by this time, spent a lot of time doing sound design, sound engineering (both professionally, and for my own purposes), creating sound effects, and so on. I have a friend who started nagging me about making music, and no matter how much I told him that sound design was very different from producing and composing music, he just didn't get it.
He nagged and nagged and nagged because he was hoping that I would make some music for him (He is a Twitch partner) and, eventually, he drove me crazy enough that I decided to give it a go, using a piece of software that I had gotten as part of a package that I had purchased.
So I did that for a song or two, making bad music from worse loops and samples, and then decided that I really wanted to give it a go. In late January of 2021, I purchased a DAW, and some instruments, and got to work experimenting and writing some really terrible 20 and 30 second "songs", as I learned a little about chords, and harmonies, and nothing at all about music theory, reading music, or any of the things that would have made my life a lot easier.
That's what the men in my family do though - When we can't figure something out, we get mad at it and beat our heads against it until we make it do what we want it to do...
And that is how my first song, Expressions, came to be. I knew what I wanted it to sound like, so I sat down and beat my head against it until I made something that sounded right (at the time). That song is not competely public, at this time, because the piano part needs to be re-done, but I may just get a wild hair and link it on this page.
From there, I wrote Ethereal Prophets, which made it on the EP, Child's Lament, which will likely be included on a later release, and an entire mess of experimental pieces with guitars, hand drums, choirs, and all kinds of other fancy instruments. I may release those on an EP of "experimental" songs at some point, but don't quote me on that.
Finally, I started to play around more with pianos and strings, because those are my favorites, and created 4 of the 5 songs that are on the debut EP, within a few months. There was a lot to learn, in there, and I still have a lot more that I need to wrap my head around, but I have loved the process of learning and making this music, and I hope that all of you will get as much enjoyment from it as I have.
I'm just an old guy that has some fun making some music, and helping other people make music. In the real world, I am in management, in the tech sector.