The Sleeper's Opera Experience

1. The Innkeeper's Grin (Keep the Customer Satisfied)
2. I'll be a Penitent Boy
3. Grace Falls
4. A Message to an Ant
5. The Lion and the Elephant
6. Contrivance of the Evangelist
7. Light My Fire
8. Ashes Turn to Stars
9. Keep Dreaming
10. Time Takes Me
11. The Queen Will Save Herself
12. Your Ears are Weapons/Your Tongue is on Fire
13. The Traveler's Dream of Motion (part 1)
14. The Uncomfortable Pose

I didn't set out to make an album when I wrote the songs for The Sleeper's Opera. That doesn't mean some of the songs weren't written with the intention of being included in an album one day, or that I have never thought of creating an album. It just means this particular group of songs, recorded in the lo-fi way they have been, were brought together like the accidental, magical collision between one man's chocolate and another man's peanut butter.

No two songs were recorded in the same way. This has a lot to do with the fact I have never been professionally trained as an audio engineer (minus a brief stint taking classes at Unity Gain in Fort Myers, Florida, but what they teach you mainly prepares you for working in a studio, not working at home on a crappy PC with cracked software and a sound card with compatibility issues.)

It also has a lot to do with the fact I work on poor equipment which breaks and crashes and occasionally gets lost/misplaced, so I'm always having to find new ways to get my ideas across.

I see my music as a concrete way of representing parts of myself, though, processes and all. So to me, the ways it came about are just as much a part of who I am as the music itself.