Album

Reasonism

Seven instrumental pieces recorded between 2012 and 2014, shaped by earlier questions about science, religion, God, non-belief, origins, and humanity.

In 2007 and 2008, I became deeply immersed in questions about existence.

Is there a God? Is there life after death? Who are we? What are we? How did the universe, the Earth, and human beings come into existence? I read about science, religion, philosophy, and everything in between, trying to understand not only what might be true, but why human beings believe the things we believe.

During that period, I learned a great deal about humanity. I also began writing a book called The Tyranny of God: Liberating Ourselves From the Tyranny of Our Own Beliefs, about how we, as human beings, have often enslaved ourselves and harmed others through beliefs we invented, inherited, defended, and made sacred.

Years later, between 2012 and 2014, those ideas found their way back to me through music.

By then, I had a different set of recording tools and a little more experience. In quiet moments, I created seven instrumental pieces that tried to capture something of that earlier period: the awe of science, the mystery of existence, the ache of doubt, the violence of certainty, and the fragile dignity of human beings trying to understand themselves.

The pieces have no vocals. They are not arguments. They are reflections shaped by questions that stayed with me long after the reading ended.