dualis.
Music as transformation through sound — poems, reflections and emotional structures given another form.
Enter the music →Writer / musician / designer / systems thinker
Transformation without loss of identity.
One person, several forms. Writing becomes music. A game becomes a visual world. An idea becomes a system, then an artifact. This is where those threads meet.
The wider identity
Different rooms.
One house.
Each project has its own visual language, but the underlying concerns stay recognisable: transformation, identity, pattern, atmosphere, and the systems that hold a piece together.
Writing
Poetry, memoir and reflection: the page as the place where experience is first given shape.
Enter the writing →Compleated Loyalty
Visual design, Commander deck engineering, print production and world-building developed as one coherent system.
Enter the project →Quasisapien
The gaming and digital identity — another space for curiosity, play, recording and the interests surrounding the work.
Visit YouTube →Music / dualis.
The page was only the beginning.
Listen. Return. Rise.
Dualis is where writing becomes sound. Ascension continues the same questions through rhythm, voice and atmosphere — a different medium, not a different self.
Ascension / 8 tracks / 2026
01Rule Maker3:12
02Caged Wings3:36
03The Balance of Devotion2:22
04Soft Whispers3:22
05Beyond the Veil of Gold2:26
06Be Loved in Your Being3:29
07The Tree and the Axe2:14
08Time to Stand2:01
Writing
Breaking.
Reclaiming.
Becoming.
In My Own Light gathers poems shaped by confession, survival, gratitude and renewed tenderness.
Writing is not a separate branch from the music. It is often the source material: a memory, image or question first worked through on the page, then allowed to become something else.
THE LONG ECHO OF MEMORY · A MEMOIR
“The stories we love do not simply entertain us. Sometimes they warn us. Sometimes they prepare us.”
David Walsh on the stories that shaped him, and the recognition we find in fictional lives.
Read a short excerpt ↗Visual worlds / systems
When the system becomes part of the art.
Compleated Loyalty began as a Commander deck and became a larger design project: a visual language, card redesign system, print workflow, playmat, accessories and a deliberate way of thinking about how mechanics and imagery reinforce each other.
Compleated Loyalty
World-building
through systems.
Explore the artwork, card designs and revisions behind the world.
Process
The finished work is only half the story.
Each finished piece begins with exploration, then takes shape through critique, correction and careful review.
01 — IdeaStart with the feeling, question, mechanic or image worth pursuing.
02 — ExperimentMake versions quickly enough to discover what the idea actually wants to become.
03 — CritiqueCompare the result with the intent. Identify where flow, clarity or function breaks.
04 — IterateCorrect details while protecting the parts that already carry the identity.
05 — ArtifactFinish something durable enough to print, publish, play, read or hear.
About
David Walsh
The person is the connective tissue.
I write, make music, build visual worlds, play with systems and follow ideas far enough to see what they become. This site is not a catalogue of unrelated hobbies. It is a record of how the same mind approaches different forms.
DavidThe person and point of origin.
dualis.The musical identity — where writing becomes sound.
WritingPoetry, memoir and reflection — experience given language.
Compleated LoyaltyVisual design, systems thinking and world-building made tangible.
QuasisapienThe gaming and digital identity.
One identity / many forms
Follow the thread,
not the category.
Context is key. The work changes medium. The underlying questions, methods and sense of identity remain.