Other World Companion
(The Original Broadcast Soundtrack)

Released: July 18, 2025

Label: Wild Iris Records

Exhibit: Livestreamed on YouTube, April 2021 – April 2022

Collaborator:

Geoff Bergey – Technical & Creative Collaboration on the Livestream Exhibit

I have always wanted to do a music project that was entirely electronic in nature. A combination of synth work, field recordings and other ambient elements melded together into something dreamy or psychedelic. As a keyboard guy first, I grew up on the tones of Thomas Dolby, Kraftwerk and Brian Eno, so I figured some day I would venture into this realm. “Other World Companion” is the result.

It didn’t begin life as an album. It began as an electronic music art exhibit: a livestream on YouTube that ran 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for an entire calendar year, from April 2021 to April 2022. Original compositions were layered with field recordings and real-time audio drops, from radio chatter during NASA spacewalks to aircraft communications, train yards, municipal transit systems and even scanner traffic from Formula 1. All of it was broadcast alongside MilkDrop visualizations, creating a kaleidoscope of sound and color.

We called the idea “The Collective Now.” The exhibit was never designed to be consumed on demand. It was a constant broadcast that listeners entered into and experienced simultaneously with others, and each live drop chronicled a moment in time and space that would never be repeated. My friend Geoff Bergey was on board for the technical side and the overall creative process, and his affinity for field recordings and random technical weirdness made him the perfect partner in crime.

Now, for the first time, the original compositions have been curated and reimagined into a standalone album. Spanning over 80 minutes, the soundtrack ranges from science fiction-inspired themes to meditative ambient collages, including “Vega.15,” a 17-minute piece born from the broadcast of a failed Arianespace Vega rocket launch. The raw transmissions from the exhibit aren’t replicated here, but their spirit lives on through textured field recordings and newly introduced sonic elements.

These soundscapes are immersive, but they can also play in the background, serving as a soundtrack to whatever it is you happen to be doing. Fans of Vangelis, Trent Reznor and Bear McCreary will find familiar atmospheres here, but also something uniquely otherworldly. An evocative journey through signal, static and sound.

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