I am 10 days away from moving to the next stage of my life. As of today, I have resigned from my position at my company in Idaho and am preparing to move to the East Coast to live with family. My college years have truly been a wild ride. I am excited nervous and anxious about the next chapter in my life.

I am debuting a recital and a showcase to show off my progress in music.
Across the Dales is to be debuted in the Spori Art Building at 2 pm MST. The live stream will also be available on my YouTube Channel. Subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow the notification bell so you can be informed of the livestream date and time.
Lost in Snow is a live composition recital where my volunteer performers perform live to debut my other works. This performance features Laney Milton as the soloist for the finale piece: Lost in Snow.
Lost in Snow will be performed in the BYU-Idaho Ezra Taft Snow building’s Recital hall on December 9th @ 7 pm. The live stream will be available at the link here:
https://www.byui.edu/music/events/watch-live
ACROSS THE DALES:
I have had a very productive month. In this past November, I uploaded 16 additional pieces to my Across the Dales story! This is enough to finish the concept storyboard and move on to the next project! Ideally, I wanted to write an additional 2-3 pieces to showcase my original ending, but due to time and limitations, I was not able to showcase my true ending, so I had to end my concept in a bit of an ambiguous cliffhanger.
Showcase Debute:

Across the Dales is a passion Soundtrack and script project I have been working on since 2017. I am happy to say that I have successfully finished this mega 2-hour project and am ecstatic to see an audience come and witness a project I’ve poured so much time and effort into making.
I am looking forward to this showcase as I have been working on it for many years. Take a look at the poster for details on where to view this project! After this is all over, starting in the new year I hope to rest this project for now and begin pitching it to studios and starting work on future installments of this story.
Across the Dales will be showcased in the BYU-Idaho Spori Art Building. It will be found in the Basement Auditorium, room 035. Seating begins at 1:30 pm and will go until 4 pm (MST). The live stream will be found on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wytemi/featured. Subscribe and click the notification bell so that you will be notified when the livestream schedule is made. The scheduled video may not be on the channel until the night of December 8th as I still have to get live recordings of two performers.
Smog and Call for Backup are sister electronic synth pieces I have reworked to stand on their own and find a new place among my electronic discography. Each is inspired by Hans Zimmer’s work in Blade Runner 2049.
A Golden Day:
This is a re-release of a piece I made about a year ago. I was successfully able to find a child soprano to sing a demo for me so that I could showcase the emotional idea so that someday, I can get a full choir to sing this piece; and hopefully the rest of my Sonnets of Serenity album series.
Smog + Call for Backup:
Last month, I announced I was working on an animation project. I was not privy to explain the details of this project, but the project has all but fallen apart and I have no heard from the director in a few months. So I released the two works I had and made them my own. I haven’t signed a contract and they were difficult to work with.
Reverie:
Reverie is a duet I whipped up in about 2 hours. I needed a piece to perform for my recital, and I finally got a response from one of my good friends and colleagues. Reverie is a unique Horn/Viola duet that follows simple harmonies that encourage getting lost in the music.
Filmography:
For the second week in a row, I was designated to direct a short film. Every year the society makes a short film during the BYU-I Christmas on Campus event. Usually, it is light-hearted and fun. This year cause I was in that kind of weird mood, I made a light-hearted, random antics short. I did not make any music for this and got a limited-use license for the music as I have never made a Christmas song before and I had 6 hours to complete the editing of this video.
25 is a weird short that I was roped into directing one day. We were spitting ideas on short films to make and I suggested a fight scene would be fun. I got designated to direct it as it was my idea. The script was mostly happenstance and we wasted a lot of time making this but it turned out ok and I even found time to make a funny soundtrack to follow the short.

website update:
As you may have noticed, I overhauled my website again. I strive to find a balance between a clean and interactive website so that the user experience is as enjoyable as possible, while also making it a priority to preserve my history and work. I believe in showing all my work as it helps show my growth to my audiences as a composer and I believe it’s inspiring to future composers who wish to make this their career.

New Dales to Explore on the Horizon:
I am truly off to the next adventure in my life. My eyes are still set on Chicago, though it seems that in the meantime, I am on my way to moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was a wise decision as I am just coming out of college and I am loaded with a lot of regretted debt that I am going to need to pay off so I’ll be relying on the help of my family who live in the area. Who knows, I may end up moving to Chicago someday.

For those curious, my goal is still to travel to Japan. I have been actively learning the language; albeit slowly. I have successfully finished learning Katakana, so I can finally resume my lessons to learn more kanji and conversations now that I am no longer going to struggle with Katakana and Hiragana.
I believe that Japanese musical tradition can teach me to unlock a new potential sound opportunity that will elevate my music and differentiate me from my peers and help me stand out. While the “Find Your Voice” mentality is considered controversial nowadays (seems a lot of things are), I firmly believe in this mentality as it was taught to me and it has helped me make music no one has ever heard before. Just imagine what I can transform my music into when I manage to travel across the seas and explore this foreign culture.

*This is a reconstruction & reupload. Original Article posted November 30th, 2023