Hi, I’m David
Musician, music producer, author, record label president,
and founder of the Dang Tiger movement.
Personal transformation through music
Music is a universal language for storytelling, sharing lessons, and seeking more meaning in life.
I am a California-based musician, producer, educator and entrepreneur. My mission is to create music and content that encourages everyone to think and feel more deeply about our connection with and purpose in the universe. To achieve this, I will be releasing 10 albums in 10 years, playing live shows, sharing Dang Tiger musings, and producing projects for multiple artists on my record label, Underground Sun.
As an educator, I have written several books on music production, taught and authored college-level courses for Berklee College of Music, and created hundreds of music-based courses for Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning.
As record label founder and president, I have co-written, produced, mixed and mastered countless songs, produced music videos, and toured the world. Underground Sun’s music has reached 100’s millions and has been featured in movies, TV shows, and campaigns worldwide. Learn more about those projects here.
Latest Musing
Separation is an illusion
Einstein saw the deep connection on the particle level between each of us and the entire universe. Paraphrasing, he said “a human being’s experience that they are separate from the rest of other humans is an optical illusion of their consciousness. Only overcoming this illusion will give us inner peace.”
I wrote the song Floating about the feeling of euphoria when we realize that we’re all so interconnected. When I’m floating, I’m connecting to the energy of the world and not keeping myself separate from it.
Quoting Einstein again: “When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.” We’re all part of the same song, vibrating together.
The lyric “I’m still driving, striving towards a shared dream horizon” encourages embracing our connection and not our separateness… our similarities, not our differences. If I can increase my happiness and peacefulness, then that literally increases the world’s happiness and peacefulness. There are no limits on these feelings. We can literally choose to increase the happiness and peacefulness of the people in our sphere of influence, and not at the expense of our own. We can all raise the positive energy level in the world just by being happy ourselves. When put on a global scale like this, it seems like we owe it to our fellow humans to seek happiness. It’s science, and it’s powerful.
Read about the making of the “Floating” music video on the Insta360 blog here.
Floating - audio file
Floating (instrumental) - audio file