Going out is best enjoyed with someone as excited to return home again as you are.

This is another nugget from the archives. I love the tradition of the train song. I’m not sure how long the locomotive was around before some musician heard one and said to themselves, “You know, that thing makes a pretty good shuffle.” Probably not that long. The elevator in my building does a convincing bossa…

This is a song I wrote more than ten years ago. I intended to add some vocals, but after a decade, it’s probably too stale to bother with. I’ve always been fond of it. The name came from an incident at a Pixies concert in Frankfurt, Germany, where Black Francis threw a guitar at Kim…

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I decided to try writing a piece for wind quintet. I set myself a one-week deadline. At the end of the week, I had this.

To celebrate the relaunch of BPO, we’ve dug up some previously unreleased music from the archives. This one is called Drty Planet. I imagined it as the theme song to a 90s science fiction show that wouldn’t have aged well. It was recorded sometime in 2020 at the old studio in Shiloh, IL.

Are we doing music on this thing too? Yes. Yes we are. Here is Yup, which I imagined being sung by a choir of cartoon sea creatures.