This is a piece that has eluded me for years.

I began to conceptualize Things Unseen at the end of 2020 when I was spending long afternoon hours behind the bar of our local movie theater. All in all, I had probably written the equivalent of 15 or 20 pages of notes (Written all on spare receipt paper) describing the conceptual and abstract ideas of such a piece, but without actually writing any musical material. For obvious reasons, not writing music is not a very good strategy when you’re trying to write music, but try as I may I could never get anything off the ground. For a composer, this feeling is completely maddening, so I eventually dropped it.

Cue the great content drought of 2022, which was actually ended when I picked up a pencil and began to sketch something. I didn’t know what, but it was a fanfare, and it was aggressive and conceptual, and it was just what I needed. This was a turning point for Things Unseen, and it was at this moment that I decided on a fanfare for the piece. It took another year, but once the ideas of a fanfare began to flow through my head they couldn’t stop, and when I started writing it only took a few weeks to have a completed skeleton.

This piece is an ode to those entities just outside of our perception. Things that may or may not exist and that we could see if only we could break out of our notion of what the world should be. I was inspired by my love of liminal horror and my brief interest in the video game Death Stranding, and with that love came music. Consider this piece not an evocation of those ideas, but an ode to them, and an expression of excitement and love that I have for these concepts.

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