Another story another day.

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Bondi to Bronte Coastal Walk, September 2015

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Belitung - August 2015. What a rockin' place (rocks everywhere among other things) and I got the best trip buddies.

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Beloam, East Lombok (June 2015).

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First of all, I never strive for identity. That's something that just has happened automatically as a result, I think, of just putting things together, tearing things apart and putting it together my own way, and somehow I guess the individual comes through eventually.

Bill Evans

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Official music video for “BEFORE” off Aurora EP

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Such a pleasure to work with this girl. Listen to the whole EP here. Also available on iTunes

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Crazy song. I need to own this right now but it's only available for purchase in the UK?! So sad.

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If I had one religion It would surely be A love song in a distance A soft melody..

Emily King, "Radio" - Seven EP

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I think it’s mostly the tools; I think they might be missing the tools. The problem with the way to make music today, these are turnkey systems; they come with preset banks and sounds. They’re not inviting you to challenge the systems themselves, or giving you the ability to showcase your personality, individuality. They’re making it as if it’s somehow easier to make the same music you hear on the radio. Then it creates a very vicious cycle: How can you challenge that when the system and the media are not challenging it in the first place? We really felt that the computers are not really music instruments, and we were not able to express ourselves using a laptop. We tried, but were not successful.

Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter on what EDM producers are missing

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Apakah kelemahan kita: Kelemahan kita ialah, kita kurang percaya diri kita sebagai bangsa, sehingga kita menjadi bangsa penjiplak luar negeri, kurang mempercayai satu sama lain, padahal kita ini asalnya adalah Rakyat Gotong Royong

Bung Karno, Pidato HUT Proklamasi 1966

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“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought.  (via imathers)

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Show some love and listen to this!

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Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this world, it is all we have, and it is ours but that it is full of strife, so that all we can call our own is strife; but even that is better than nothing at all, isn't it? ... Be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.

Tinkers - Paul Harding

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Scoring for Advertising final project: Marines Ad.

Composed, Sound Designed, and Mixed by yours truly.

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Cutscene project for my video game scoring class.

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Let's get out of here before it gets dark

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This song is too beautiful it hurts!