a first release

A Small Piece Finds Its Home

So, my first composition made it to the Nkodia App today. Strange feeling, putting something so personal out there.

This piece... it started from those quiet moments. You know the ones - when you're sitting somewhere, maybe waiting for a train, and you just watch. People rushing past, each carrying their own story, their own problems. I've always been curious about what's really going on behind the surface.

The melody came to me during one of those afternoons in Brussels. My girlfriend and I were sitting outside a café, doing our usual thing - making up stories about strangers. Nothing fancy, just observing. A guy checking his phone every thirty seconds. Someone walking their dog but clearly thinking about something else, a couple stealing time and laughing while holding hands.

The small dramas playing out that nobody talks about.

All these little human moments happening at once. It reminded me why I compose - trying to capture feelings that are hard to explain with words.

The piece itself is simple - deliberately so. When you're watching people just living their lives, this needed space, breathing room. Jóhann Jóhannsson used to talk about the space between the notes. It's about those quiet moments when people think nobody's watching.
The small gestures, the pauses, the way someone sits when they're lost in thought.

Getting it on Nkodia feels like a small step, but an important one. Sheet music has always been personal for me - notes on paper that somehow become something real when someone else plays them. Now it can reach musicians I'll never meet, in places I'll never go.

That's both exciting and nerve-wracking.

Anyway, if you find it there and decide to play it, I hope it feels right.

The piece is available now on the Nkodia App.