An Obscure Place
Welcome to the home page of Timothy Ballan. If you came here without knowing much about me, I am a writer working on music, poetry, different types of essays, and different types of stories. This site currently hosts a sampling of poetry, visual art, and (finished and unfinished) musical pieces.
So why the title "An Obscure Place"? Well, it represents my tendency to favor strange and absurd paths in my creative pursuits. It is also the title of a story that I am working on (that I am also writing music to accompany). Being grand in scope, this story samples many of my styles found in many of my smaller-scale works.
Also feel free to check out my Myspace Music page, myspace.com/timothyballan.
This site is updated often, so check back again soon if you wish. Hopefully you'll find this place to be a pleasant diversion, even just for a one-time visit.
Recent Updates:
--8/27/08: Several musical pieces (two piano improvisations and two MIDI realizations of chamber works) were added.
--6/21/08: On the music page, I added a link to a Youtube video of a performance of a showtune I wrote––which accompanies no specific real or imagined show.
--6/2/08: A short improvisation based on an intensely bittersweet experience was added to the music page.
--5/25/08: Several photographs were added (albeit cell-phone-quality, unfortunately) as well as a farcical song about Christian nationalism, and an actually serious poem loosely about the possible superior intelligence of tortoises. I've also added a link to the site of my friend's who is a marvelously talented illustrator.
--12/9/07: Site was pretty much reworked.
--9/24/07: Several poems were added and some empty pages were deleted.
--9/21/07: Some poems were edited.
--9/15/07: A link to youtube of a humorous music video has been added to the music page.
--6/23/07: A new page entitled "Drawings and Paintings" has been added (with a link to it on the bottom of all other pages). It presents some of my drawings and paintings from over the years.
--6/22/07: A new clip has been added--"Meditation--A Beginner Playing the Shakuhachi; Dedicated to Perry Yung".
--6/06/07: A new poem has been added entitled "An Unfortunate Event, Described to Matt on the Phone".
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