What’s the Point?

As I pay more attention to publishing on this website as opposed to other platforms around the interwebs, I wanted to share its purpose and what I intend to do with it. Erase the Filter (you can check out the origins of the name here) is the online digital portfolio and archive of my creative work in music, audio, video, and writing. As of this writing, there is only a fraction of my work presented here, but I plan to continue to archive the lion’s share of it over time. In addition to the archives, ETF will continue to be the current home of my blog and podcast.

As a teenager in the 1980s I began playing around with cassette recorders (like the one in the image above) which led to my love of home recording. Over the years, even as I was exposed to more professional studios, I maintained a home studio using whatever equipment I could afford. In my various studio configurations I recorded my own music, recordings for other artists, concerts that I produced, and podcasts. I’ve maintained an extensive digital archive of this work that dates back to the early 1990s, and I will be presenting selections through this website.

Though never professionally, and to a much lesser extent than audio production, I’ve enjoyed writing ( non-fiction and fiction), and producing video. Both of these media have typically complemented my music, but in some cases the work has stood on its own. I hope to also archive some of these items on Erase the Filter, as well as maintaining an ongoing blog with musings about music and general culture. You can subscribe to the blog by email (subscribe in the sidebar –>>) and receive a Sunday morning message with anything published during the previous week, or you can subscribe to the podcast through Apple podcasts, Stitcher, and a variety of other podcast apps. Or just listen to it right here on this website.

Thank you for reading this far down the post! I hope you find some nugget of interest in the work that I publish here. If you have any questions, or any kind of feedback, I would love to hear from you. You can use the contact form to get in touch and we can start a conversation from there. Thanks again for checking out Erase the Filter.