Hello, my name is Michael O’Keefe. I’ve just finished the third year of my undergraduate studies here at Loyola, and am majoring in Philosophy. I was born and raised in New Orleans, though I plan on moving and experiencing other parts of the country and, with luck (and income), other parts of the world, after college. This isn’t to say I’ll never return, as people who leave here seem to eventually do, because I consider this city to be unique, and I think it’s difficult for one to not get culturally jaded living in as interesting a place as New Orleans. As far as hobbies go, I’ve got a few of them: mainly (and this one sort of extends beyond the realm of hobby) I compose, perform, record, and listen to music; I read (anything aside from worthless pulp novels); I try to watch movies as often possible (really anything from the inception of cinema, to foreign short films, to campy 80’s flicks); I bike and swim; I hang out and go out with people; and I eventually plan on getting into filmmaking.
In the future I plan on continuing to make music and continuing to work somewhere within that field. I make music ranging from folk songs to ambient compositions to completely electronic tunes (which is the field I’ve been focusing on lately). Regardless of what type of music I’m working on at the time, I try to make each piece unique and something that couldn’t really fit into the framework of a given genre or scene. I feel that recorded music as a whole is currently going through a period of stagnation due to the fact that artists are tending to make excessively derivative, unoriginal works, so I try to do the opposite and produce interesting music that could stand on its own in the larger musical landscape and that, perhaps, could even be relevant and interesting in the future.
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