David Husted Music

One step closer to leaning into a build and release.

Will decide by the end of this week.

Finalized distribution prep for my next song through CD Baby today. I expect to lock it in tomorrow, but I’m still fussing with the art. Here is what I am thinking.

It does have a Halloween-ish ambiance, kinda-sorta. I would…

Mahpiohanzia is a coined word from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows that describes the deep disappointment of being unable to fly or float into the air.

Meaning and Origin

Pronunciation: "Mah-pee-oh-han-zee-uh"

The Feeling: It is the heavy letdown…

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily…

I’m putting the finishing touches on my next release.

It’s called Crow.

It’s a sound-design smorgasbord—a song that took a few unexpected turns while I was making it.

One of those turns came from a synth sound that…

I have at times ruminated on my music making adventures and wondered why I do it.

Cons

• Takes a great deal of time and effort for relatively low payback financially. (I now hear Jeff Spicoli's voice in Fast Times at…

Clearing
by Martha Postlethwaite

Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into…

I made this a long time ago now. It was my first real attempt at a song in the synth EDMish genre

I thought it came out pritty, pritty, good.

Enjoy

Falling Off My Edges

I have a new song I’m thinking about releasing in about a month. A very Hallo-weeny vibe. Should I wait until closer to Halloween or just go with my usual pacing of song releases?

This one was purely a quick,…

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."

E. E. Cummings

Photo by…

ESCAPE BY D.H. LAWRENCE

When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego,
and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the cages of our personality
and get into the forest again,
we shall shiver with…

I am closing in on having enough songs to imagine distributing an album and I am back to the same question; is it worth it to release an album or just stick with the singles format? It is a good…

suerza = a feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all — gratitude that you somehow made it into being, despite the almost unimaginable chain of events required for you to be here.

The idea is actually pretty profound…

Even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world and himself through the lenses of delusive formulas and artless simplifications — and most of all himself. For it appears to be an inborn and imperative need…

 I started my random song generator many moons ago. By that point, I'd already written quite a few songs—but since then I've created more than 15 new ones that I've intentionally kept out of the generator. My plan is to…

One of the best parts of releasing a song is that it stops belonging only to me.

Once it's out in the world, every listener brings something different to it. A memory. A mood. A moment I never could have…

To Paula in Late Spring
W.S. Merwin

let me imagine that we will come again
when we want to and it will be spring
we will be no older than we ever were
the worn griefs will have eased like…

I've always been drawn to songs that leave a little space for the listener.

Not because they don't mean anything, but because they can mean different things at different times.

There are songs I hear one way today and completely…

"The harmony of natural law reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

Albert Einstein

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear infinite.

William Blake

Photo by Alexander Mass

Most worthwhile things don't reveal themselves the first time around.

Some songs grab you immediately.

Others take their time.

That first listen is spent chasing the obvious—the hook, the chorus, the clever lyric. But after a few spins, something shifts.…

"My tsundoku is a waiting room for all…