For anyone wondering what's going on with this "project": I've been mysterious about what it entails but for starters it's a new full-length free album/mixtape/playlist/whatever. I started writing for it at the top of 2015. Mind you, I avoided releasing so much as a song that ENTIRE year. I took a break from it in [...]
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TGFM EP with DJ Riv
TGFM the EP has arrived. I originally had the idea to put out some songs for Labor Day Weekend but wanted to do something different. So I enlisted the help of my friend DJ Riv to make you feel like you were listening to a live mix on the radio. Over the course of a [...]
Signal 3: The Waves
https://youtu.be/TOgqbqp4njk
Working on Vacation
As someone who generally likes to create, I've always worked on building skills in areas that complement my music. I recently came back from a family vacation in Orlando. I had been before, but this was the first time I really took time to appreciate the moments as they happened instead of reflecting on them [...]
Book Club (aka Doing Research for New Music Instead of Releasing It)
I read the above books last year to help inspire what you'll be hearing from me this yearspring 2017 OOPS. It all started with a course I took my senior year of college titled "Media/Design/Culture". In this course students examined how different forms of commercial media developed from art. Some of the required reading came [...]
Signal 2: The Box
Here's another glimpse into the inspiration for my next project. Sometimes you forget the control you really have...
And so it begins…
The first iteration of my official website is now public. Welcome! I'm looking forward to the make this the home of all things Token Genius. And even though it's not quite where I would like it to be yet, I announced the date and I'm sticking to it. This is the first iteration, so check [...]