Flipbook 2020
Flipbook is a solo ambient EP project I had written in 2020. It was written after my band had disbanded as a self-reflection piece.
In 2020, I was living in a 4 bedroom house in Baltimore City. The rent was very cheap and I took advantage of the living situation at the time. My roommates and I's goal was to keep the house as strictly an artist house. I wanted artists to benefit from the cheap rent so that they may be able to afford more towards their art. We named this house, 'The Grindon," and for 7 years I lived in that house from 2015 to 2022.
We had weekly open jam sessions, organized artist events, house shows, and local artist community meetings on the first floor. In the second floor, I had put a recording studio setup in my bedroom where I started engineering in my room for myself and other artists. Those days I felt really good helping local artists begin to achieve their dreams.
This short EP was written during those years. I wanted to capture the feeling I had while being in that house in 3 songs. All while practicing very intentional writing. A lot of my mindset while writing this music was writing simply what I felt the music needed and nothing more. If something felt too much, I would cut it out. The goal was to say the most with the fewest needed movement.