Nate here, thanks for visiting my website. I hope you find what you are looking for.
Inner&Outer is the name of my musical business: I offer lessons, workshops, recordings, and events in the New England area. My mission is to transform their musical lives of individuals and communities by bringing people’s behaviors and ideas in line with the spirit of music. Music feels good. Alignment with one’s authentic expression feels good. I love music because it illustrates how multi-dimensional reality is. It’s beautiful just to be here, in reality, falling in love with being who you are.
As of May ’24, my web presence is in a transition:
To get a picture for what’s happening right now, sign up for my mailing list over at Substack.
Mixed & Mastered recordings of my songs are making their way out onto the internet (!!) under the moniker Personal Planets. First single out June 28th, full EP out June 26th. Listen here on Spotify.
After a big slow down in 2023 — I suffered a major concussion — my 30’s is moving me slowly into public life: more publicly become a thought leader in spirited music making, embrace and appreciate the art that I make, and to more widely communicate the work I do with individuals and groups.
I help people live their most fruitful musical lives, navigate cultural questions around who makes music for whom, what it’s like, how to make it, and why. I help people create the space around themelves to manifest their most potent, healed, and authentic music. Music is a profound teacher: make lots of music and you will fundamentally change as a person.
For a long time, my life has been devoted to two twin flames: spirituality and music. They both have been somewhat obvious and somewhat private pursuits. “Spirituality” is an umbrella term that refers to contemplative practices that connect us to the animating spirit of life and the world. As a wounded adolescent, the question was often “how do I reconnect with the source of life, so that I can fully own who I am, in this small animal body, in this world?” As a recovering classical pianist, I often would go between deep focus on music and performance — creating 5+ hours a day, performing piano for hundreds of shows at ImprovBoston — and moments of burn out, seeking calm, integration, and respite of connection with a higher power. A serious study of astrology, tai chi, esoteric philosphies — as well as journeys to festivals, alternative cultural gatherings, men’s work, and intentional communities — including, the Hive, JetLAG, Sacred Nectar, NAAS, Sacred Sons, Regional Burning man events, EarthDance and more.
In short, focusing on the music itself, the most perfected, most right-feeling, the most raw and accessible music. The most aligned music is the most “spiritual”. Our work is to become vessels for the spirit of music itself — our own spirit. On that level of oneness, you are the music. We fuse, merge, and realize our nature as manifestations of divinity.
Though I teach and work for myself, I have meaningfully collaborated with many wonderful organizations over the years — Wellan Montessori, ImprovBoston (2013-2020), ImprovAslyum, Music2Meeting, Bentley University (2019), Center for Curriculum Redesign, prog-metal fusion band Strange Changes, and Boston Theatre Company. I’ve recorded with Maddy Lam, Miss Bones, Vanessa Hale, Orbiter. I lead retreats.
Feel free to reach out, sign up for a class, attend a retreat, invite me onto your podcast, or listen to some of my music.
Click here to listen to my May 2021 piano recital, in Distler Hall At Tufts University.
To listen to a September 2020 release, “Improvisationisms” — an album of completely improvised songs — click here.
And feel free to subscribe to my youtube channel while you’re at it… I occasionally put videos up there too.