Timothy Arliss OBrien is a professional creative who has worked in classical music composition, poetry & publishing, and the visual arts for over a decade. His goal is to connect people to accessible new music that showcases virtuosic abilities without losing touch of authentic emotions. He has premiered music with The Astoria Music Festival, Los Angeles' 48-hour film competition, Cascadia Composers, Sound of Late’s 48-hour Composition Competition, and ENAensemble’s Serial Opera Project. He also wants to produce writing that connects the reader to themselves in a way that promotes wonder and self-realization. He has published several collections of poetry (The Art of Learning to Fly, Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month, The Queer Revolt), several cartomancy decks for divination (The Gazing Ball Tarot and The Pixel Acid Tarot), and has writing featured with Look Up Records (Seattle), Zines and Things, and Deep Overstock: The Bookseller’s Journal. He has also combined his passion for poetry with his love of publishing and curates the podcast & publishing house, The Poet Heroic, and he also hosts the new music podcast Composers Breathing. He also showcases his psychedelic makeup skills as the phenomenal drag queen Tabitha Acidz and expanded his love for music by transforming into the up-and-coming SoundCloud rapper Lil Fag Tears.
Publications
2023
Knots
Deep Overstock Issue 22: Knots
Murmurs in a Hallway
Journeys: What We Carry, What We Leave Behind
an anthology by Zines & Things
The Poet Heroic
poetry podcast season 5
The Queer Revolt
a collection of poetry
Is This a Fucking Love Poem?
Deep Overstock Issue 21: Romance
Composers Breathing
new classical music podcast
season 1
2022
Spiraling Into Sanity
a poetic tryptic
published by Unstamatic Magazine
the unconditional acceptance
There's No Place Like Homophobia
a micro essay
Deep Overstock Issue 18: Old Favorites
Everybody's smiling, Nobody's Happy album review by Elephants and Dogs
published by Look Up Records
Crime Scenes
a collection of photography
Save The Bees
Deep Overstock Issue 17: Beekeeping
The Power of The Word Faggot
Radical Fairy Digest
The Art of Learning to Fly
A collection of poetry compiled, illustrated, and published by Timothy Arliss OBrien
I'm a Superstar, and Super High, but Superhero?
Deep Overstock Issue 16: Superheroes
2021
A Shakespearean Cure
Deep Overstock Issue 15: Shakespeare
Orbiting Bodies
Horror Sleaze Trash
A Lesson in Technical Magic
Deep Overstock Issue 14: Magic
I Fucked God and I'd Do it Again
Horror Sleaze Trash
Time Trilogy
Deep Overstock Issue 13: Future
Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month
a collection of poetry
The One Solitary Soul Inside
Quartz Zine
Kink Demons
Horror Sleaze Trash
Murder at Murphy Manor
Deep Overstock Issue 12: Mysteries
2020
Where Life Began - Nature
Deep Overstock Issue 10: Origin of Life
Empty Cupboards
Deep Overstock Issue 9: New Arrivals
The Graffiti Oracle Expansion
a collection of original urban photographs curated into an oracle deck expansion
Metamorphosis of the Sun
Preslar Art Initiatives
The Architecture of the Apple Tree
Deep Overstock Issue 8: Structures
2019
Dear God, I'm a Faggot
a collection of poetry
Undoing a Curse
Deep Overstock Issue 7: Horror
Memories from Oklahoma
Two Cowboys Holding Hands
Deep Overstock Issue 6: Westerns
The Poet Heroic
a poetry podcast
Urban Lenormand
a collection of original urban photographs curated into a full Lenormand deck.
I have a dream
Deep Overstock Issue 5: Dreams
The Graffiti Oracle
a collection of 40 original urban photographs curated into an oracle deck
Sowing and Reaping Righteous Love
God of the New Beginnings
Our Bible App
Ink Sketch Oracle
a collection of my sketches compiled to create an oracle deck.
Piano Effigies
A collection of over 20 piano scores spanning my composition career.
Ink Sketch Lenormand
a collection of my sketches compiled to create a full Lenormand deck.
The Gazing Ball Tarot
a collection of my photography curated into a full tarot deck
Aqua: poems from the Sea
Deep Overstock Issue 4: Nautical Lore
2018
Grace That Conquers Bitterness
Keeping Hope
Cultivating Inner Strength
Our Bible App
Contributing writer
Look Up Records
2017
Skin
Anna and the Wobbly Star
A battery. A dragon. A reason to move across the country
Recipe for Loneliness
Volume 25, Issue 1: The Velvet Night
The Promethean.
2016
They
A collection of poetry, unfolding a novella in verse.
Music
2023
The Green Of Your Eyes
violin solo
runner up - PARMA Recording
Global Echoes Violin Concert
Snare Excuse
solo percussionist
Conflict & Resolution Concert
Cascadia Composers
Fierce Fabulous & Fully Coiffed
a classical music drag show
New Music Gathering
2022
A Tailored Tale
A film score for the LA Comedy/Horror 48hour film competition
Cloudy Dreams
a Lo-fi single
Reminiscent Audio Display
The Climb
A film score for the LA 48hour film competition
Angels Falling Freely
toy instruments, found sounds, synths
by Reminiscent Audio Display
live from the Leach Botanical Garden
Crossing Paths Concert
Cascadia Composers
Apathy
piano solo
Movement two of the first piano sonata
In Good Hands Concert
Cascadia Composers
Theme and Variation on Movement
violin, piano, dancer
The Reemergence Concert
Cascadia Composers
2021
A Journey Through Existence
soprano, piano
Fresh Squeezed Opera
High
single by Tabitha Acidz
Quartet of Queer Revolt
string quartet
recorded by Elliot Kempton
The Saddest Mixtape
ep by Lil Fag Tears
2020
The Elegy: piano sonata one
piano solo
performed by Edward Cohen
.:we.all.become.monsters:.
winner of the
Tricks for Treats Composition Competition
NIZCO Music
SOUNDBATH: the visual album
premiered at New Music Gathering 2020
Waltz of Towering Rage
cello duet
performed by Raúl Andueza
A Trance
flute solo
performed by Alexis Evers
A Soliloquy in Nature
flute quartet
performed by Davide Bonomo
8100 Polls
spoken word
music by Banadu
Little Toys
percussion duet
Great Plains Percussion Group
Oklahoma Modern Music Collective
2019
God does see us
tenor, piano
performed by Dr. William Christensen
Wesley United Methodist Church
Lifting the Multiverse
a brief opera scene
ENAensemble
Plays and Players Theater
serial opera project
libretto by JLWilliams
The Joy of Youth
a short piano etude
from Piano effigies
NewCELF
FLUXUS2019
A Storm on the Coast
saxophone, cello, piano
L’abri Trio’s New Music Series Op.17
Soundbath
an album on ambient electronic music
Trumpet Suite: Exposed
trumpet solo
Astoria Music Festival Presents: Made in Oregon II
Cascadia Composers.
Genius
Starlight
Overnight Trainride
Distant Church Piano
piano solos
In Good Hands
Cascadia Composers
Hopeful Farewell
a composition for
Combined band/orchestra
Harding Charter Preparatory High School
Small Chapel Organ
a composition for piano and pipe organ
All Wired Up
Cascadia Composers
Fear Sides
an electronic music album
Lament
Distant Church Piano
Swimming in the Sky
three piano pieces - score
Piano Day: Portland City Hall
Portland Piano International
2018
Piano Memories
ambient piano EP
deconstructed lament
piano solo for left hand and glockenspiel.
Astoria Music Festival Presents: Made in Oregon
Cascadia Composers
Where Are We?
electronic music EP
Wasted
trumpet, bass, electric guitar.
48hour Composition Competition Portland
Sound of Late
Lullaby
viola duet.
48hour Composition Competition Seattle
Sound of Late
2017
My Own Private Idol
a short film
2016
Fugue: A theme for night
piano solo.
In Good Hands,
Cascadia Composers
2015
Genius
She Speaks with Languish
piano solos
In Good Hands
Cascadia Composers
Little Toys
percussion duet
Cascadia Hits on the World
Cascadia Composers