r/contemporary

I don’t know very many people that play the piano. I only took a few lessons many years ago and have been trying to teach myself music theory. I listen to piano music a lot, so a lot of my writing just comes from what seems to sound good

Looking for constructive criticism! Trying to write songs has been fun!

Made a new sheet music video for this original composition. It's like a fantasy theme/overture.

Also on YouTube.

Hi there,

I’m a harpist-pianist-composer/academic in the philosophical-esoteric milieu, about to finish my doctorate. I’ve written about Deleuze a lot in my doctorate and have some published papers on his ideas. So I created an organ-harp-piano music video that is also an experimental film that incorporates Deleuzian ideas. It’s an original philosophical manifesto, and if you are familiar with Deleuze’s ideas, particularly the Difference and Repetition stuff, you’ll notice how I both employ Deleuze’s ideas and transform them.

It's about an oneiric musical language of spiritual hieroglyphs.  And I also combine ideas from Novalis (I’m probably most known as a Novalis scholar in the academic world currently), Schelling, Giordano Bruno, Rudolf Steiner, Boehme, Walter Benjamin (and Kabbalah), also the work of Dianna Reed Slattery.

No AI was used in the making of this song, video, or philosophical text; it is 100% human-created art.

I also created a lot of hand-made animations for it, mainly ancient Egyptian and alchemical motifs.
Hope you enjoy!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh_xwUMb0LY

A study inspired by Rothko.
He had a taste for red, a taste for bold colors that told stories.

I understand the appeal of red.
It can be crisp and delicious, like an apple,
or painful and emergent like blood.

Acrylic on canvas
11 × 14
June 23, 2026