Contact Info
email: alphaleonis@alphaleonis.org

Planet Ceres Enterprises
4110 SE Hawthorne Blvd., #619
Portland, OR 97214-5246

About Alpha Leonis

Alpha Leonis is exclusively and entirely the intellectual property of Atticus Reynard and Planet Ceres Enterprises, created as a conveyance vehicle for progressive ideas and unconventional thought. 

On the surface, it is a collection of music composed of both organic and digital sounds, converted into transmittable archives reproduced with modern technology.  It is also a distinct pattern of sound discernable by converting oscillations of pressure into electrical signals which can then be interpreted by excitable neurons (to grossly over-simplify). 

More abstractly, while Alpha Leonis is a form of art, it is also a philosophy.  Art has always been a way of understanding ourselves in relation to the external world within which we exist, and by this measure Alpha Leonis is part of this practice.  It aims to embody the spirit of human innovation and capture the essence of a temporary existence bound to the limitations of the physical world.  But beyond the context of understanding, Alpha Leonis exists with the conscious objective of subconscious interpolation -- the idea that external influences shape our individual existences to varying degrees.  Music is not only a catharsis for internalized cognition through emotional response, but also a powerful tool for shaping the common world in which we inhabit, precisely because of those physiological reactions it induces. 

Alpha Leonis Etymology (Simplified )
Alpha Leonis - Regulus - COR LEONIS - King Richard - COR CONDITVM - La cathdrale de Rouen - "HIC COR CONDITVM EST RICARDI ANGLORVM REGIS QVI COR LEONIS DICTUS OBIIT AN M C XC IX"


About Shadows of Men

Although Alpha Leonis has existed as a theoretical entity for a number of years, Shadows of Men will be the first full-length Alpha Leonis release, and the first Alpha Leonis release of any kind with the intent of reaching a mass audience.  Shadows of Men is a concept album of sorts, unified by thematic and compositional elements and does not necessarily represent the future of Alpha Leonis, but rather a present approach to composition. 

All music on the album was written, recorded and performed by Atticus intermittently over the course of several years in various locations including the Californian cities of Santa Barbara and Rancho Cucamonga as well as in Portland, Oregon.  The album represents a small proportion of Atticus' experimentation with sound, more of which may be released in the near future if circumstance allows the opportunity.


About Atticus

Born in the Gregorian year of 1981 A.D., the name 'Atticus' comes from the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird, after a character whose principles and moral values held steadfastly when confronted by some of the worst traits of human nature. 

Entirely self-taught as a musician, and without any knowledge of even basic musical notation, Atticus professes ignorance to even the most elementary concepts of music theory and relies solely on intuition and pattern recognition to produce organized dissonance that some humans consider melodious.  This quasi-reluctance to develop a structured knowledge of the art may be, at least in part, due his musical upbringing, or more accurately, complete lack thereof.  Never having been forced to take piano lessons as a child, and realizing that Satan's own instrument, the kazoo, had been his only introduction into musical performance up until that point, Atticus decided to buy himself a high school graduation gift in the form of an electric guitar in the summer of 1999.  Enabled by the rapidly expanding world of the internet, he taught himself to play whatever music inspired him, encouraged to regularly practice as a form of procrastination to escape the rigors of college life. 

Shortly after graduating from college in Santa Barbara with a degree in Geography, Atticus took to recording music as a part time hobby between a wide assortment of temporary jobs, internships, physical pursuits, mental challenges and world travel, but always with the ultimate intent of someday self-releasing an album.  Atticus does not view himself as a musician per se, a contention with which many would undoubtedly agree, but a student of the world in every aspect imaginable. 

Atticus currently calls the extraordinary city of Portland, Oregon his home.