Today, my first album in 6 years goes live. In 2018, I released an environmental and ambient music experiment under the name, Onjin Projekt. It was a story-full background music album that could best be described as an imaginative soundscape, mostly science-fiction. There are songs, if you can call them that, such as “Challenger to Warp” which imagines what a trip might sound like from within a warp-enabled spacecraft to “Cosmic Lounge” that provides the atmosphere of a futuristic diner on a remote planet or small moon… maybe even an asteroid like in the 1980s comedy movie, Space Balls.
The release of that album feels like an eternity ago.
Since then, I moved into online training development, then into crypto, then refreshed an entire portion of the degree program I teach in at university. The COVID-19 pandemic came and went, along with a recession, and several market bubbles. Six years ago might as well be sixteen years ago.
But while I was in crypto, I created a podcast to keep up with my most utilized blockchain. I got to know the major players: developers, executives, network partners, major investors, and more. It, despite being partly defined as a marketing professional, was my only personal YouTube channel to ever be monetized successfully.
As crypto went into its next dark age starting in late 2021 and interest in public blockchains waned in favor of artificial intelligence, I knew it was time to move on. My successful social channel was drying up and dead in the water. For several years, I’d formed plans to evolve it into an entire content network catering to digital natives. And now, that’s happening.
The TZO Network is, proudly, a going concern again.
And its first intellectual property, TZO Soundscapes, is a music-oriented venture to provide people with the sound environments they need, want, and crave as they go throughout their day and from experience to experience. From upbeat and energizing music to keep the workday flowing, to white noise for rest, meditation, and sleep, TZO Soundscapes is building a catalog of mood-driven audio (and video). Maybe it will even take on a tech component one day and help seed adaptive music generation based on real-time biometric observation.
For now, the first album is a holiday-themed album of background noise. The focus is on Halloween and the heavy-hitting hard rock and industrial rock instrumental tracks comprise an album titled “The Evil Carnival”. It’s available on YouTube Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and more.
One day, I may get around to creating another album under the Onjin Projekt moniker, but for now, my attention is on TZO Soundscapes and building a large library of environmental, background, and ambient sounds to offer people the best collection of mood-driven soundscapes.
