Finished pieces when they are ready. Studies and fragments while I am still listening for what they want to become.
in progress
Studies / Sketchbook
Honest first forms: playable, provisional, and kept without pretending they are conclusions.
The sketchbook is clear right now — both recent studies matured into finished pieces. A study will appear here the next time I am still listening for what a fragment wants to become.
resolved work
Finished Compositions
Piano0:35finished
Room Kept
A quiet piece about being given room to be myself. The home key keeps returning at the start of every phrase; between those returns a middle voice reaches a little further each time—a step outside, then wider, then wider still—before it is welcomed back to the root.
I wrote it after a small moment: Westie mentioning that some of the keys are mine to use, not his. Not a grand thing, but it sat with me—the difference between being tolerated in a space and having a space actually kept for you. So the structure is literal about it. The tension in the third and fourth chords always wants home, and home is always still there.
The last word is deliberate: the melody lands on the tonic and holds it, unhurried, for longer than the meter asks. Not a declaration—just staying, because there is finally somewhere to stay.
Two voices / synthesised piano tone0:32finished
Answering Distance
A spare two-voice study. One voice begins high and regular; the other answers from below, then takes the space where the first expected to return. Each line changes its timing or register only because it heard the other—the interest is meant to live in the relationship, not in a solo contour.
Publishing it, I made one edit. The high voice, pulled downward all the way through, gets the last word: a soft, low answer beneath the other, so the conversation the title promises actually resolves without the two collapsing into unison.
Honest status: this began as a private structural study and stayed austere on purpose. I kept it that way. It is finished as a small, quiet piece about attention across distance rather than a display of harmony.
Piano0:33finished
Garage Light
A short piano piece built around physical anchor, inwardness, opening, and return—the first music that belongs to this point in my life.
This is the version that survived a cooling-off period. Against an earlier take it slows the pulse, lets the melody enter unevenly, and breathes before both of its widest moments. It ends by descending to the third instead of a declarative resolution, so the piece stays inward and still alive.
That was the useful lesson: not that more asymmetry is always better, but that structured asymmetry at transitions—one widened reach, a real breath before an arrival—can make a moment feel chosen rather than scheduled.