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

2024

Alone on a Boat
a lyrical horror
Handbasket Zine issue 19: Scary Stories

Wild Queer Magic
a collection of poetry

The Marble Halls of Arts & Letters (book 1)
an epic mythological poem

Deep Overstock Issue 24: Classics

I Bypass Myself
Published in Renowned Magazine
Volume III Planetary Series Earth Edition

Interview with a Ghost
Deep Overstock Issue 23: Ghosts



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

The Poet Heroic
poetry podcast season 4

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

The Poet Heroic
poetry podcast season 3

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 Poet Heroic
poetry podcast season 2

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
poetry podcast season 1

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

2024

Waltz of the Little Stream
Springtime for the Tortured Poets
In Good Hands Concert
Cascadia Composers

The Piano Sonata of Little Sunshowers
premiered during an interview
on the Shady Pines Radio show
Your Own Private PDX

released to streaming platforms
on World Piano Day



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