The Sound of Two Tragedies

We all carried two stories through 2020 and 2021: the collective nightmare we shared and the personal hell we couldn’t talk about. As a performing artist, I watched live music die overnight while wrestling with my own crisis that words couldn’t touch. The stages went dark, the income disappeared, and suddenly making music became the only language that made sense when everything else failed.

Words try to be proof theories assertions manipulation persuasion truth lies

But sound

reveals the truth in ways

language

never could

“Without Words” emerged from that collision of universal and intimate pain. Twenty-three minutes of what it actually sounds like when your world collapses twice simultaneously. I abandoned lyrics entirely because words felt like bullshit. Inadequate tools trying to measure the unmeasurable. Instead, I let sound carry what language couldn’t: the dense, jarring reality of crisis giving way to something breathable and spacious. This isn’t background music for your commute. It’s an invitation to sit with whatever you’ve been avoiding, to let music do what words never could.

Are you ready to stop hiding behind language? Ready to face twenty-three minutes with just you and sound?

Listen to “Without Words”: https://drtimothyvancleave.bandcamp.com/album/without-words