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TLDR: now you can play me like a keyboard! My first sample library is now available!

Comment “I wanna play you Paulie!” Or something like that below, and I’ll send you the link AND a code for an additional 10% off the special release price until May 15 🫶🎻

The full story:
About 2 years ago, Sam Estes of Sonicsmiths called me with an interesting idea… A solo violin sample library with a different kind of focus: rather than trying to create the one library to rule them all, with a multicolored universe of articulation and expression options that inevitably induces decision fatigue rather than inspiring creativity, he wanted to build something useful that fit a gap he saw in the sample landscape: a violin sound geared specifically toward use in popular music settings, and as a unique solo voice in modern scoring. In short, the kinds of things I’ve done a lot of in the studio over the last 20 or so years!

So we set up amidst a literal forest of microphones at Village Recorders ( @villagestudios ) and dug in our heels for a very long and focused day of tracking all the bits and pieces, and Sam and the team set about the daunting task of organizing and scripting all of it together into a proper virtual instrument.

It took an enormous amount of time and effort, but in the end, I could not be more pleased with the results!! Sam and I wanted this library to be sonically rich and unique but also quick, responsive and fun to use, and it’s all of that and more!
And it really does sound like me!

Composer and producer friends, I really hope you will take a minute to give this one a try! I’m tremendously impressed by the work sonicsmiths did, and we are already talking about ways we could expand the library in the future if people dig it. Have fun!

❤️😘-p

📸: @peterfigen the legend!!!

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Tldr: help me pick a new profile photo! I can’t decide!
Post your favorite slide number in thee comments!

📸’s by the incredible @jessicamoncriefphotography

The whole story:
A couple weeks ago I posted a picture of myself feeling breezy in some new white trousers I’d picked up in CDMX while I was down there playing some incredibly fun album release shows with the amazing @littlebodybigheart (more on that soon), and my friend Jessica hit me up saying she thought it might be time for some new headshots! I was sort of thinking the same thing, so I put together a few fits and bopped over to her home studio in Huntington beach, and we proceeded to have the MOST FUN AND AMAZING AFTERNOON I’ve ever spent in front of a camera!

Part of this is because Jess is an old friend of more than 25 years, and obviously has an incredible eye... She’s snapped some of my favorite pics of myself on stages and in studios over the years, and has a real knack for catching me in candid moments and surprising me with how good she was able to make me look, no matter how I felt about the way I looked, if that makes sense... Like she knew how I looked in my head, and found ways to bring that out in her images. I couldn’t imagine feeling more comfortable with someone pointing a camera at me :)

The other part is that, after focusing intently on weight loss and fitness for more than 2 years now, I am finally starting to feel like the person I see when I look in the mirror is the person I always felt like I was inside, and for the first time in my life, I feel like I can get in front of a camera and just move around and be silly and free without worrying whether I’m holding myself in a way that will look ridiculous or embarrassing...

Of course I still look at myself sometimes and see all the flaws, the few pounds I still want to lose, the lines on my face, my inevitably thinning hair, my weird teeth... But that’s all starting to get quieter and quieter, and I’m having more and more little moments of being genuinely free of all the self-deprecating noise, and it just feels so good.

These are my favorite images I’ve ever seen of myself, and I’m so grateful, Jessica!! Love you ♥️📸🤘

-pjc

Ok i guess it's basically summer

CAOS, @miguel 's first album in 8 years, is out now! It is by turns dark, evocative, violent, cathartic and beautiful, with epic production from @rrreymundo
It was thrilled to get to dig deep into the records, orchestrating and arranging and assembling this amazing octet for an album release celebration at Zipper Hall last week,and this performance last night on @jimmykimmellive !
Thanks to @g.mataaa , @justintrotta and the rest of the team for your support and professionalism helping everything go off without a hitch, and to Miguel, Raymond, and all my string fellows Stephanie Matthews, @chriswoodsviolin , @hustlekat , @thatviolakid , @corvictoria , @mia_bc , and @adrienne_woods for this incredible performance. That shit was 🔥🔥🔥

CAOS, @miguel 's first album in 8 years, is out now! It is by turns dark, evocative, violent, cathartic and beautiful, with epic production from @rrreymundo
It was thrilled to get to dig deep into the records, orchestrating and arranging and assembling this amazing octet for an album release celebration at Zipper Hall last week,and this performance last night on @jimmykimmellive !
Thanks to @g.mataaa , @justintrotta and the rest of the team for your support and professionalism helping everything go off without a hitch, and to Miguel, Raymond, and all my string fellows Stephanie Matthews, @chriswoodsviolin , @hustlekat , @thatviolakid , @corvictoria , @mia_bc , and @adrienne_woods for this incredible performance. That shit was 🔥🔥🔥

CAOS, @miguel 's first album in 8 years, is out now! It is by turns dark, evocative, violent, cathartic and beautiful, with epic production from @rrreymundo
It was thrilled to get to dig deep into the records, orchestrating and arranging and assembling this amazing octet for an album release celebration at Zipper Hall last week,and this performance last night on @jimmykimmellive !
Thanks to @g.mataaa , @justintrotta and the rest of the team for your support and professionalism helping everything go off without a hitch, and to Miguel, Raymond, and all my string fellows Stephanie Matthews, @chriswoodsviolin , @hustlekat , @thatviolakid , @corvictoria , @mia_bc , and @adrienne_woods for this incredible performance. That shit was 🔥🔥🔥

Earlier this week I got to spend a little time on the other side of the glass, producing an orchestral session to record music I arranged and composed for Vogue World 2025, @voguemagazine 's annual runway show and fundraiser. This year’s event is being held at Paramount studios in Hollywood, and benefits the Entertainment Community Fund, providing relief for actors, set designers, costumers and other industry professionals who have been impacted by the fires in Altadena and the Pallisades.
I’ve just learned you can stream some of the event directly from vogue.com !
Check it out, especially the big opening number featuring the one and only @nicolekidman

Thank you to my incredible friend and MD @aronforbes for bringing me on board, and for all the insane work you put in to craft the soundtrack to this spectacular event, including moving actual mountains to get it recorded right here in Los Angeles, the birthplace of film music and the home of the industry that this year's show celebrates and supports!

🫶🎥🎶🎉

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For hobbit day, I wanted to share some shots and a video from last month when we got to visit the spectacular @hobbitontours set in New Zealand! I cannot recommend this experience highly enough! And of course, since I had my electric fiddle with me from the Australian leg of @bearmccreary 's Themes and Variations tour, I had to play a bit of Bear's wonderful theme for Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot from the Rings of Power series!
Nori's descendants went on to found the Shire, and I'm sure she would have felt right at home in this extraordinary little Hobbit house that we got to explore. Every detail was absolutely incredible, and the feast at the Green Dragon was one of the best meals of the whole trip (and that is saying something!)
You've got to see it ♥️🧙🏻‍♂️💚

*Scroll through*
For hobbit day, I wanted to share some shots and a video from last month when we got to visit the spectacular @hobbitontours set in New Zealand! I cannot recommend this experience highly enough! And of course, since I had my electric fiddle with me from the Australian leg of @bearmccreary 's Themes and Variations tour, I had to play a bit of Bear's wonderful theme for Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot from the Rings of Power series!
Nori's descendants went on to found the Shire, and I'm sure she would have felt right at home in this extraordinary little Hobbit house that we got to explore. Every detail was absolutely incredible, and the feast at the Green Dragon was one of the best meals of the whole trip (and that is saying something!)
You've got to see it ♥️🧙🏻‍♂️💚

*Scroll through*
For hobbit day, I wanted to share some shots and a video from last month when we got to visit the spectacular @hobbitontours set in New Zealand! I cannot recommend this experience highly enough! And of course, since I had my electric fiddle with me from the Australian leg of @bearmccreary 's Themes and Variations tour, I had to play a bit of Bear's wonderful theme for Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot from the Rings of Power series!
Nori's descendants went on to found the Shire, and I'm sure she would have felt right at home in this extraordinary little Hobbit house that we got to explore. Every detail was absolutely incredible, and the feast at the Green Dragon was one of the best meals of the whole trip (and that is saying something!)
You've got to see it ♥️🧙🏻‍♂️💚

*Scroll through*
For hobbit day, I wanted to share some shots and a video from last month when we got to visit the spectacular @hobbitontours set in New Zealand! I cannot recommend this experience highly enough! And of course, since I had my electric fiddle with me from the Australian leg of @bearmccreary 's Themes and Variations tour, I had to play a bit of Bear's wonderful theme for Elanor "Nori" Brandyfoot from the Rings of Power series!
Nori's descendants went on to found the Shire, and I'm sure she would have felt right at home in this extraordinary little Hobbit house that we got to explore. Every detail was absolutely incredible, and the feast at the Green Dragon was one of the best meals of the whole trip (and that is saying something!)
You've got to see it ♥️🧙🏻‍♂️💚

What can I say about this record... It’s a hell of a thing. Truly some of the greatest songs I’ve heard in ages. It manages to feel self assured and confident, yet fresh and spontaneous, somehow both elegiac and, above all else, joyous... The writing, as I understand it, happened quickly and naturally, as of a few old friends discovering new ways to make beautiful things together. Which is exactly what it was! I did my best to capture that sense of familiarity and spontaneity with the string arrangements, and I could not be happier with how everything turned out!!

Stupendous work everyone, thank you for inviting me to be a part of one of my new favorite albums ♥️🎶🎊

@wearethefavors
@finneas
@ashemusic
@marinelli
@rickygourmet.online
@aronforbes

And special love to my incredible string colleagues:

@luannehomzy
@galliakastnerviolin
@andrewduckles
@violanation
@vanessafreebairnsmith
@cellocharles
#benjacobsonviolin

#wearethefavors 🫶

What can I say about this record... It’s a hell of a thing. Truly some of the greatest songs I’ve heard in ages. It manages to feel self assured and confident, yet fresh and spontaneous, somehow both elegiac and, above all else, joyous... The writing, as I understand it, happened quickly and naturally, as of a few old friends discovering new ways to make beautiful things together. Which is exactly what it was! I did my best to capture that sense of familiarity and spontaneity with the string arrangements, and I could not be happier with how everything turned out!!

Stupendous work everyone, thank you for inviting me to be a part of one of my new favorite albums ♥️🎶🎊

@wearethefavors
@finneas
@ashemusic
@marinelli
@rickygourmet.online
@aronforbes

And special love to my incredible string colleagues:

@luannehomzy
@galliakastnerviolin
@andrewduckles
@violanation
@vanessafreebairnsmith
@cellocharles
#benjacobsonviolin

#wearethefavors 🫶

What can I say about this record... It’s a hell of a thing. Truly some of the greatest songs I’ve heard in ages. It manages to feel self assured and confident, yet fresh and spontaneous, somehow both elegiac and, above all else, joyous... The writing, as I understand it, happened quickly and naturally, as of a few old friends discovering new ways to make beautiful things together. Which is exactly what it was! I did my best to capture that sense of familiarity and spontaneity with the string arrangements, and I could not be happier with how everything turned out!!

Stupendous work everyone, thank you for inviting me to be a part of one of my new favorite albums ♥️🎶🎊

@wearethefavors
@finneas
@ashemusic
@marinelli
@rickygourmet.online
@aronforbes

And special love to my incredible string colleagues:

@luannehomzy
@galliakastnerviolin
@andrewduckles
@violanation
@vanessafreebairnsmith
@cellocharles
#benjacobsonviolin

#wearethefavors 🫶

What can I say about this record... It’s a hell of a thing. Truly some of the greatest songs I’ve heard in ages. It manages to feel self assured and confident, yet fresh and spontaneous, somehow both elegiac and, above all else, joyous... The writing, as I understand it, happened quickly and naturally, as of a few old friends discovering new ways to make beautiful things together. Which is exactly what it was! I did my best to capture that sense of familiarity and spontaneity with the string arrangements, and I could not be happier with how everything turned out!!

Stupendous work everyone, thank you for inviting me to be a part of one of my new favorite albums ♥️🎶🎊

@wearethefavors
@finneas
@ashemusic
@marinelli
@rickygourmet.online
@aronforbes

And special love to my incredible string colleagues:

@luannehomzy
@galliakastnerviolin
@andrewduckles
@violanation
@vanessafreebairnsmith
@cellocharles
#benjacobsonviolin

#wearethefavors 🫶

Masters of the Universe theme from the last show of @bearmccreary's Themese and Variations tour. Arguably the most epic two minutes of the whole show. As usual, sorry for the shaky video but IT’S HARD TO MIX AND FILM AT THE SAME TIME. Board mix + ambient mics into limiter.

#livesound #audioengineer #fohengineer

THE GIVER just topped 100 million streams on Spotify! Congratulations Dan and Kayleigh! I feel very lucky to be a part of something putting a bit of joy and positive energy out into the world in these torturous times.
Love you all ♥️
P

Back in November I had the absolute pleasure to work with producer @cjbaran and record and edit some super-sexy disco-pop strings arranged bybour dear friend @pjcartwright for @marinadiamandis latest release @hollywoodscoring! So much fun. If I could do nothing but record disco all day, sign me up. 🫶🏻❤️🔥

Back in November I had the absolute pleasure to work with producer @cjbaran and record and edit some super-sexy disco-pop strings arranged bybour dear friend @pjcartwright for @marinadiamandis latest release @hollywoodscoring! So much fun. If I could do nothing but record disco all day, sign me up. 🫶🏻❤️🔥

Back in November I had the absolute pleasure to work with producer @cjbaran and record and edit some super-sexy disco-pop strings arranged bybour dear friend @pjcartwright for @marinadiamandis latest release @hollywoodscoring! So much fun. If I could do nothing but record disco all day, sign me up. 🫶🏻❤️🔥

The #blacksails theme is an eternal banger and was one of the highlights of the show every night. My mastered board mix from the Chicago stop of @bearmccreary's Themes and Variations tour. Sorry for the iffy camerawork, it's hard to mix and film at the same time.

#livesound #audioengineering #fohengineer

It has been an incredible experience reconnecting with the electric violin for the Themes and Variations tour, playing the music of @bearmccreary , a truly astounding badass of a composer who I am glad to be able to call one of my oldest and dearest friends and collaborators. Sharing the stage each night with Bear, @brendanmccreary , @petegriffinbass , @obz_kenobi , @morgansorne and the great and powerful @therealgenehoglan is endlessly thrilling. I’ve never played a show quite like this before! By turns achingly beautiful, and crushingly brutal, it’s a tour through so many eras of my life, revisiting and reimagining riffs and melodies from the very beginning of my career in the studio all the way through to the present day.
Thank you Bear and everyone on the @sparksandshadows team for building this show and inviting me to be a part of it. And thanks to our unbelievable road crew @frankie_orange , @thebishopgame , @eviluncletimmy , @jaikaminoff , @baldo.eduardo , @charlesdegolla and Jack for making all this happen everyday and doing it with more kindness, grace and professionalism than I’ve ever experienced in a touring organization.

I hope we’re able to continue to develop this show, and share it with many many friends, fam and fans down the road!

So Say We All ✨✨
P
(Wonderful 📸 courtesy of @jdcasto )