Thought Posting

This is a collection of poems created in early 2020, during the early onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Simultaneously, this was created during the writing of a This City Called Earth album entitled, "IV". Originally the idea was that there would be a 'zine, featuring these poems, a set of pages taken from my music theory book that I had been working on, specifically the Neapolitan Major series, and a collection of illustrations/images. Upon the 2/3 mark, I had decided to try and outsource the illustration/photo side of things but it didn't pan out, likely a mismanagement of time or resources on my end, again. Oops. Anyways, these are a lot more personal on an emotional level for me and it's always been hard and slow to get this side of me out without inebriation, time to process and the correct environment to speak - or feel. I don't know. Some of these are more hopeful, whereas others are in-fact incredibly dark stemming from some childhood traumas that I'...

  This is a series I began around April 2020, formulated during the early onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was originally intended to be a 3 part "'Zine",  comprised of a particular musical scale and it's related modes, a set of poems and a set of illustrations/images[this part was never created, ultimately due to my own mismanagement - oops]. During the time of creation I was simultaneously in the early stages of writing a draft for a Music Theory book. The intention of which was to create some kind of ' Encyclopedia of Musical Scales '. The Neapolitan Major Scale is so fascinating because it was the first major scale that I learned about which was pretty different from the western standard Major Scale , otherwise known as the Ionian-Major Scale . Sonically, this was so unique to my untrained ear(s) and so it was very exciting to work with and study. Incorporated in all of these modes of Neapolitan Major are pieces of information related to notable points...