trenton michael music.

i write/compose music, sing and rap; program and produce music; mix, master, and live engineer; and play saxophone, keys, guitar, bass, and more.


see you in june

`see you in june` is about optimistically loving as a flawed person in a flawed world.

the instrumentation is different from my previous work as it features me finger-picking my now-destroyed rogue ra-090 acoustic guitar (i smashed it into a doorway or something btw). i wanted to leave my comfort zone that i ended up in during `liteoatp`.

this one i love to talk about and the deep fans love it. i didn't play guitar before writing this song and i actually picked up guitar just to learn it (i ended up having a lot of fun with guitar; this was very unexpected since guitarists aren't people).

vocals were recorded with rode nt4 and guitar was recorded with shure sm-57. i played the midi synth keys as well.

my friend dora took the photo in the album art, i added the text.

life in the eyes of a teenage philosopher

`an orchestra of pain and growth`

in 2021 i released `life in the eyes of a teenage philosopher` which i often abbreviate as `liteoatp` (yes, i know that's not how acronyms work, no i dont care, eat shit). it is a 22-track glitchcore/synth-pop and r&b/hip-hop album with synth and vocals. it doesn't feature any other live instruments. sonically this album takes place in a surreal and abstract space.

the album art was created by me, edited heavily from a picture i took on a rebel t2i into the graphic seen here. find alternate album art and more goodies in the gallery.

i've had a vision about a teen angst glitchcore project called `life in the eyes of a teenage philosopher` since i was like 14 but it took me time to develop the patience and skill to execute it. plus, i really did have to get a little fucken crazy wit it ya feel...

if i'm being completely honest i nursed this project for a long time as i was using it to hone my producing skills and i actually straight up released it by accident, like i forgot to move it back and people started texting me about it saying they liked it so i didn't bother taking it down. `liteoatp` achieved its purpose and i was ready to let it go, after a whole lot of years of it being an idea in my head.

the album was produced in audacity & garageband for iphone and later logic pro x for macbook (first a pro 2012, later a pro 2017). the gear used includes the focusrite scarlett solo & scarlett 2i2 for audio interfaces; the shure sm-57 & sm-58 and the audiotechnica at-2020 for microphones. everything was recorded at home, in closets, in the middle of the room, wherever. the album was remastered at the university of michigan in 2022.

the album, lyrically, reads as a bildungsroman about pride, trauma, love, and being who you are.