Christen Lien
@christenlien.bsky.social
Composer, Performing Artist, Musician
Dramatic, haunting, cosmic classical music 🎶
Listen when it’s time for creativity/introspection
Dramatic, haunting, cosmic classical music 🎶
Listen when it’s time for creativity/introspection
I wrote a new song. I haven’t composed new music in months!
The past few years I composed a storm then spent many months recording those tunes… a few months ago I finished. I have 15 unreleased songs that I’m preparing for release. Those are coming, indeed — but that is not the point today. 1/
The past few years I composed a storm then spent many months recording those tunes… a few months ago I finished. I have 15 unreleased songs that I’m preparing for release. Those are coming, indeed — but that is not the point today. 1/
May 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I wrote a new song. I haven’t composed new music in months!
The past few years I composed a storm then spent many months recording those tunes… a few months ago I finished. I have 15 unreleased songs that I’m preparing for release. Those are coming, indeed — but that is not the point today. 1/
The past few years I composed a storm then spent many months recording those tunes… a few months ago I finished. I have 15 unreleased songs that I’m preparing for release. Those are coming, indeed — but that is not the point today. 1/
One of the greatest aspects of making music is when a #writer uses my carefully crafted journeys to inspire and guide their books and stories.
A writer just told me that my ELPIS album is the soundtrack while he writes his next book. Knowing this connects me to providence and magic, it’s the best.
A writer just told me that my ELPIS album is the soundtrack while he writes his next book. Knowing this connects me to providence and magic, it’s the best.
May 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
One of the greatest aspects of making music is when a #writer uses my carefully crafted journeys to inspire and guide their books and stories.
A writer just told me that my ELPIS album is the soundtrack while he writes his next book. Knowing this connects me to providence and magic, it’s the best.
A writer just told me that my ELPIS album is the soundtrack while he writes his next book. Knowing this connects me to providence and magic, it’s the best.
New focus strategies for the next six weeks:
• Pomodoro hourglasses
• Turn phone off until 6-7pm
• Coordinate all communication via email
Goal: Break the habit of mindlessly and habitually picking up my phone.
• Pomodoro hourglasses
• Turn phone off until 6-7pm
• Coordinate all communication via email
Goal: Break the habit of mindlessly and habitually picking up my phone.
April 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New focus strategies for the next six weeks:
• Pomodoro hourglasses
• Turn phone off until 6-7pm
• Coordinate all communication via email
Goal: Break the habit of mindlessly and habitually picking up my phone.
• Pomodoro hourglasses
• Turn phone off until 6-7pm
• Coordinate all communication via email
Goal: Break the habit of mindlessly and habitually picking up my phone.
It was my birthday yesterday and something special happened.
April 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
It was my birthday yesterday and something special happened.
I’m starting a band called the Devil’s Doorbell. Who wants to join my band? 😈🛎️🎶🤘
March 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’m starting a band called the Devil’s Doorbell. Who wants to join my band? 😈🛎️🎶🤘
March 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Happy Cocoon Day! We have a big week ahead.
February 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Happy Cocoon Day! We have a big week ahead.
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” ~ Carl Sagan
Happy Valentine’s Day from the vastness and the impermanence! I love your imperfections. And I love the world’s imperfections. Thank you for being a part of my cosmic community.
#valentinesday
Happy Valentine’s Day from the vastness and the impermanence! I love your imperfections. And I love the world’s imperfections. Thank you for being a part of my cosmic community.
#valentinesday
February 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” ~ Carl Sagan
Happy Valentine’s Day from the vastness and the impermanence! I love your imperfections. And I love the world’s imperfections. Thank you for being a part of my cosmic community.
#valentinesday
Happy Valentine’s Day from the vastness and the impermanence! I love your imperfections. And I love the world’s imperfections. Thank you for being a part of my cosmic community.
#valentinesday
Team Democracy, listen to this. It will help you feel positive and grounded, and we need you positive and grounded.
“Don’t Believe Him” from Ezra Klein
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
“Don’t Believe Him” from Ezra Klein
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
February 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Team Democracy, listen to this. It will help you feel positive and grounded, and we need you positive and grounded.
“Don’t Believe Him” from Ezra Klein
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
“Don’t Believe Him” from Ezra Klein
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
January 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today is a good day for a onesie.
January 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Today is a good day for a onesie.
It’s time for my first book club, ever ever! We’re reading Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” — I’ve meant to take this book in for years my friend organized a group of us to read and muse about it together as a community.
Have you read Parable of the Sower? If so, tell me how it changed you.
Have you read Parable of the Sower? If so, tell me how it changed you.
January 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It’s time for my first book club, ever ever! We’re reading Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” — I’ve meant to take this book in for years my friend organized a group of us to read and muse about it together as a community.
Have you read Parable of the Sower? If so, tell me how it changed you.
Have you read Parable of the Sower? If so, tell me how it changed you.
For the past two weeks I’ve been waking up every day at 6am so I can greet the sunrise. This is a serious shift because I’ve always been a night owl. My focus and productivity is 📈 and the day starts with serious inspiration.
I see your wisdom, early birds.
I see your wisdom, early birds.
January 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
For the past two weeks I’ve been waking up every day at 6am so I can greet the sunrise. This is a serious shift because I’ve always been a night owl. My focus and productivity is 📈 and the day starts with serious inspiration.
I see your wisdom, early birds.
I see your wisdom, early birds.
I’ve been in a liminal space, spending my days writing while helping my community in Los Angeles. Allowing my ideas to bake privately is the medicine at this moment, for me, for now. David Lynch invokes a liminal space too, and so few humans are as comfortable there as he has been.
1/🧵
1/🧵
January 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I’ve been in a liminal space, spending my days writing while helping my community in Los Angeles. Allowing my ideas to bake privately is the medicine at this moment, for me, for now. David Lynch invokes a liminal space too, and so few humans are as comfortable there as he has been.
1/🧵
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For your LA community — My friend made this compilation of spreadsheets with all the different resources people have been pulling, categorized and in all one place.
Los Angeles Fire Resources:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Los Angeles Fire Resources:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
January 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
For your LA community — My friend made this compilation of spreadsheets with all the different resources people have been pulling, categorized and in all one place.
Los Angeles Fire Resources:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Los Angeles Fire Resources:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Humane and thoughtful ways to show support for our LA community ✨
January 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Humane and thoughtful ways to show support for our LA community ✨
Woke up for the sunrise, stoked that our circadian rhythms are adapting. When in Baja, carpe sunrise.
Also taking stock of how much Care Bears gear I have. Maybe I need a Care Bears partnership so we can invigorate the Care Bear Stare on a global level.
Also taking stock of how much Care Bears gear I have. Maybe I need a Care Bears partnership so we can invigorate the Care Bear Stare on a global level.
January 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Woke up for the sunrise, stoked that our circadian rhythms are adapting. When in Baja, carpe sunrise.
Also taking stock of how much Care Bears gear I have. Maybe I need a Care Bears partnership so we can invigorate the Care Bear Stare on a global level.
Also taking stock of how much Care Bears gear I have. Maybe I need a Care Bears partnership so we can invigorate the Care Bear Stare on a global level.
The sunset is 🤌
Michael is doing Tai Chi on the beach
A big crew of surfers
are gathered at sea
I’m doing my best
not to pick up the phone
every second
to capture every moment
The reflex is there,
we are conditioned
Algorithmic feasts
or algorithmic beasts?
Instead,
Presence
Michael is doing Tai Chi on the beach
A big crew of surfers
are gathered at sea
I’m doing my best
not to pick up the phone
every second
to capture every moment
The reflex is there,
we are conditioned
Algorithmic feasts
or algorithmic beasts?
Instead,
Presence
January 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The sunset is 🤌
Michael is doing Tai Chi on the beach
A big crew of surfers
are gathered at sea
I’m doing my best
not to pick up the phone
every second
to capture every moment
The reflex is there,
we are conditioned
Algorithmic feasts
or algorithmic beasts?
Instead,
Presence
Michael is doing Tai Chi on the beach
A big crew of surfers
are gathered at sea
I’m doing my best
not to pick up the phone
every second
to capture every moment
The reflex is there,
we are conditioned
Algorithmic feasts
or algorithmic beasts?
Instead,
Presence
I’ve never worked so hard over a Christmas break but it’s official… THE MUSIC IS FINISHED. Mastering is done too. Now, I rest. 😌🥂🎶
December 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM
I’ve never worked so hard over a Christmas break but it’s official… THE MUSIC IS FINISHED. Mastering is done too. Now, I rest. 😌🥂🎶
Happy solstice to everyone who believes in the indomitable balancing powers of the fierce and intelligent universe!
📷: Heather Gildroy
📷: Heather Gildroy
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Happy solstice to everyone who believes in the indomitable balancing powers of the fierce and intelligent universe!
📷: Heather Gildroy
📷: Heather Gildroy
Psychological timeline cleanse 😌
December 20, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Psychological timeline cleanse 😌