Album / Short Film
Life Is a Strange Loop
2026
︎ Psychedelic
︎ Ambient
︎ Space Jazz
Side A now streaming
Life Is a Strange Loop is the new album from Virtual Perfection Cowboy, debuting the VPC Ensemble. Across 32 minutes of ever-flowing, never-stopping improvisation spanning psychedelic rock, ambient electronic and spiritual jazz, the record traces a single idea through sound: that everything — music, family, consciousness, the universe itself — is built from cycles that fold back on themselves, deepen, and reinvent themselves with each return.
The title nods to Douglas Hofstadter, but the album reaches past philosophy into something more physical and organic. Repetition here is the ground that makes improvisation possible. Themes are established so they can be broken, transformed, or rediscovered. Synth pads orbit jazzy ride cymbals, flutes and guitars wander out and find their way back changed, vocal textures and the bird calls and whale sounds of electric viola sing the cycles of the natural world. The album relates a vision of the world similar to a jazz ensemble, where the forms are fixed but the freedom is in what you do inside it.
Written and produced during a season of new fatherhood, Life Is a Strange Loop carries the quiet vertigo of watching a new life begin while your own keeps unfolding — generations stacking, each one widening the view. It's an album for headphones and long walks, and for anyone who suspects the universe is composed of cosmic musical harmony.
︎ Ambient
︎ Space Jazz
Side A now streaming
Life Is a Strange Loop is the new album from Virtual Perfection Cowboy, debuting the VPC Ensemble. Across 32 minutes of ever-flowing, never-stopping improvisation spanning psychedelic rock, ambient electronic and spiritual jazz, the record traces a single idea through sound: that everything — music, family, consciousness, the universe itself — is built from cycles that fold back on themselves, deepen, and reinvent themselves with each return.
The title nods to Douglas Hofstadter, but the album reaches past philosophy into something more physical and organic. Repetition here is the ground that makes improvisation possible. Themes are established so they can be broken, transformed, or rediscovered. Synth pads orbit jazzy ride cymbals, flutes and guitars wander out and find their way back changed, vocal textures and the bird calls and whale sounds of electric viola sing the cycles of the natural world. The album relates a vision of the world similar to a jazz ensemble, where the forms are fixed but the freedom is in what you do inside it.
Written and produced during a season of new fatherhood, Life Is a Strange Loop carries the quiet vertigo of watching a new life begin while your own keeps unfolding — generations stacking, each one widening the view. It's an album for headphones and long walks, and for anyone who suspects the universe is composed of cosmic musical harmony.
Audiovisual Installation
Path of Liberty: That Which Unites Us
2025
︎ Epic
︎ Inspirational
︎ Contemplative
Path of Liberty: That Which Unites Us is an immersive audiovisual exhibit, currently installed at Freedom Plaza NYC (near the United Nations). This unique production, marking VPC’s 3rd collaboration with director Daniella Vale, showcases portraits and interviews with a diverse range of American’s reflecting on the ideals that unite us, and the work that we can all do to make good on the American Promise.
VPC composed a 7-minute long symphony for the central plaza of the exhibit, where 8 screens surround the viewer with video of the diversity of the American landscape and its people. The score seeks to express this diversity through a range of instruments and sounds across musical traditions, and is intended to leave the viewer feeling both the vastness of both the landscape and American ideals, while also providing intimate moments that underscore humanity of the individuals shown.
Interview audio throughout the show is interspersed with VPC’s drone tones for a meditative experience.
Path of Liberty is currently on display through 2025! — Book your free ticket here
︎ Inspirational
︎ Contemplative
Path of Liberty: That Which Unites Us is an immersive audiovisual exhibit, currently installed at Freedom Plaza NYC (near the United Nations). This unique production, marking VPC’s 3rd collaboration with director Daniella Vale, showcases portraits and interviews with a diverse range of American’s reflecting on the ideals that unite us, and the work that we can all do to make good on the American Promise.
VPC composed a 7-minute long symphony for the central plaza of the exhibit, where 8 screens surround the viewer with video of the diversity of the American landscape and its people. The score seeks to express this diversity through a range of instruments and sounds across musical traditions, and is intended to leave the viewer feeling both the vastness of both the landscape and American ideals, while also providing intimate moments that underscore humanity of the individuals shown.
Interview audio throughout the show is interspersed with VPC’s drone tones for a meditative experience.
Path of Liberty is currently on display through 2025! — Book your free ticket here
“Audiobook” Concept Album
Energy Mirror: A Dance Odyssey
2024
︎ Electronic
︎ Dance
︎ Spoken Word
Energy Mirror: A Dance Odyssey is a unique album experience that combines 27 tracks of experimental electronic dance music with epic poetry.
With words and music by VPC and narration by Twitch streamer and Shakespearean actress Jupieverse, Energy Mirror tells the story of the Dancer, a higher dimensional being that must incarnate as a human to win a disco competition to save the soul of the universe. To do so, she must master the emotions and movements of the human experience.
Energy Mirror: A Dance Odyssey is Virtual Perfection Cowboy’s 4th LP, with an accompanying poetry book. VPC is also in talks to develop the concept into a live immersive show.
︎ Dance
︎ Spoken Word
Energy Mirror: A Dance Odyssey is a unique album experience that combines 27 tracks of experimental electronic dance music with epic poetry.
With words and music by VPC and narration by Twitch streamer and Shakespearean actress Jupieverse, Energy Mirror tells the story of the Dancer, a higher dimensional being that must incarnate as a human to win a disco competition to save the soul of the universe. To do so, she must master the emotions and movements of the human experience.
Energy Mirror: A Dance Odyssey is Virtual Perfection Cowboy’s 4th LP, with an accompanying poetry book. VPC is also in talks to develop the concept into a live immersive show.
Music Video
Heat
2024
︎ Quirky
︎ Abstract
︎ House Music
Feel the heat.
An ode to vibration, energy, movment — the spark of all life.
Heat is the third single off of Virtual Perfection Cowboy’s concept album, 4th LP, the dance concept album Energy Mirror: A Dance Odyssey.
︎ Abstract
︎ House Music
Feel the heat.
An ode to vibration, energy, movment — the spark of all life.
Heat is the third single off of Virtual Perfection Cowboy’s concept album, 4th LP, the dance concept album Energy Mirror: A Dance Odyssey.
Score
Tingle
2024
︎ Campy
︎ Horror
︎ Comedy
Have you ever felt that tingling sensation when eating pineapple?
Did you know it’s an active enzyme that works to break down protein? So that tingling sensation... is actually the pineapple trying to eat you back.
See what happens when a sex tip about eating pineapple goes horribly and hilariously wrong!
Showed at the Catalina Island Film Festival, Bushwick Film Festival, Chicago Horror Film Festival, among others.
︎ Horror
︎ Comedy
Have you ever felt that tingling sensation when eating pineapple?
Did you know it’s an active enzyme that works to break down protein? So that tingling sensation... is actually the pineapple trying to eat you back.
See what happens when a sex tip about eating pineapple goes horribly and hilariously wrong!
Showed at the Catalina Island Film Festival, Bushwick Film Festival, Chicago Horror Film Festival, among others.