How I Create My Music and Videos
Elsewhere on this site, I have shared the longer story of how music has been part of my life since childhood. This page is simply an explanation of how I now turn that history into finished songs and videos.
I write all of my own songs. Many of the lyrics began in childhood diaries, old notebooks, personal records, and books I later wrote as an adult. Some of these stories have been waiting decades to become music. During my 38-year forensic career, there was simply never enough time to give this work the attention it deserved. After retiring in December 2025, I was finally able to begin turning those memories and written fragments into songs.
I sometimes sing my own songs at karaoke, which gives people an opportunity to hear my voice outside the studio. A karaoke performance will naturally sound different from a completed studio recording.
My released vocals are produced, mixed, and mastered because I prefer the clarity, balance, and emotional control of studio production. Even when I was young, I rarely enjoyed live concerts as much as recorded music because the vocals often lacked the precision and consistency I heard on the radio. A professionally finished recording is not intended to sound exactly like someone singing casually in a crowded room. Studio production has been part of recorded music for generations.
My music videos contain my own photographs, including family and personal images dating back to before the 1970s. Many were taken decades before cell phones, camera phones, digital cameras, and consumer camcorders became part of my family’s life. Everyday moments were preserved in a limited number of printed photographs rather than continuously recorded on video.
I use AI-assisted tools to carefully add movement to some of those still images, then construct each video scene by scene around the meaning and emotional direction of the song. However, AI does not supply my memories, write my lyrics, create my history, choose the photographs, or decide what the finished work should say. It is simply a tool I use to help tell the story visually, using material that already belongs to my life.
I do not create or release music in pursuit of fame. I think of this body of work as a memoir in music. It allows me to preserve parts of my life that might otherwise disappear and leave something meaningful for the generations who are here now and those who will come after I am gone.
I also make the music publicly available because a song rooted in my experience may still help someone else. Listeners may recognize their own grief, hope, anger, resilience, or memories within it.
My albums and singles are available for purchase through this website. Income from those sales helps cover additional studio production, video creation, and future releases. Selling the music helps the project continue, but it is not the reason the project exists.
The tools are modern, but the source material is not.
The memories, words, photographs, voice, and creative direction are entirely my own.
