• Hello Time Travel – Yearbook

    I completed the graphic layout for an independent singer-songwriter's album release, including disc sticker and folding lyric insert. All work was completed on a tight deadline for a Valentine's Day release. I made use of Adobe Photoshop and InDesign and delivered press-ready files to the printer.  

  • Snake Oil

    For this piece, I had started with the guitar part (played on my keyboard), and wrote pretty much the entire music bed with the one sound.  Then I added other musical parts, wrote lyrics and melody, and presented it at a songwriter's circle.  Many group members were impressed that I could tackle an interesting topic [...]

  • Songwriter’s Showcase Event

    I hosted a showcase event for our Songwriter's Cafe meetup group today at the Central Bar. It was a great experience, and I got to see many great performances. In addition to announcing the performers, I also photographed and sound recorded the event to share with the individual performers. Live mixing was handled by Phil, and [...]

  • The Orange Purple Yellow Song

    This is my latest song, about a guy and a girl, and another guy, with rather colourful names.  I wrote this song in one evening, music, melody and lyrics.  That hasn't happened in a very long time.  Enjoy! Download the full album for free. Burn yellow train inside Look blind and hide Orange say [...]

  • Brave Daughters

    I had a strong reaction to the 2012 gang rape case in India, which made international headlines in December. Revolted as I was from the crime, equally unsettling was the call from the Indian public for violent retribution upon the accused (not yet tried or convicted) men. I read several articles from different sources, and found [...]

  • Hayley Stewart-Moran

    I've been working for a few weeks now with a local singer-songwriter named Hayley.  This work is quite unique in that Hayley has written lyrics and melodies, but no music, even though she plays ukulele and cello.  So as she repeatedly sings her melodies, I hammer out some piano parts, with the help of a [...]

  • I Am

    It's been more than 25 years since I started writing music, and over 10 that I've been writing songs with my own lyrics. This is my very first published song for which I did my own singing (thank goodness for pitch correction). I Am started out as the lyrics to accompany the music I had [...]

  • Brand New Door

    This is my latest original song, although it has been a long time coming. This song started as a piano part over 5 years ago, for which I fully intended to add lyrics, so I wrote it with a verse/chorus structure. I then wrote lyrics and a melody, but didn't have anyone perform the vocal [...]

  • Under My Shell

    I fooled around with a dance-rock groove with spoken word song several years ago, but never really liked the production I did or the way I performed the spoken word. I presented my updated song at the Songwriter's Cafe meetup group and it was very well received.  One comment from the group stood out for [...]