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Luke F. Walton

Founder of Surmado. Writer and Musician .

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Luke F. Walton founded Surmado, a technology company for small business. He is a multi-instrumentalist and produces, mixes, and arranges for artists such as Shingo Murakami, CHAI, bed, and OKAME. Scoobert Doobert is Luke F. Walton's primary music project; he is also half of the duo FEiN. He hosts the Love Music More podcast, with episodes and guests, including Andrew Scheps (Adele) and Craig Bauer (Kanye West). He also writes philosophy, fiction, and essays. Read more on his biography.

Listen on Spotify: Scoobert Doobert·FEiN·Love Music More

Start anywhere Fiction

The Signatories: A novel by Luke F. Walton and Jonathan Gillie. 2026 Page Turner Writing Award Finalist

Selected work

Music·Writing·Podcast·Apps·Press·About

Elsewhere

LinkedIn·ORCID·Google Scholar·GitHub·PhilPeople

Contact

luke@lukefwalton.com

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Luke F. Walton

Summary. Luke F. Walton founded Surmado, a technology company for small business. He is a multi-instrumentalist and produces, mixes, and arranges for artists such as Shingo Murakami, CHAI, bed, and OKAME. Scoobert Doobert is Luke F. Walton's primary music project; he is also half of the duo FEiN. On Spotify and YouTube, Walton's music has more than 50 million plays. He hosts the Love Music More podcast, with more than 200 episodes and 95 guests, including Andrew Scheps (Adele) and Craig Bauer (Kanye West). He also writes philosophy, fiction, and essays.

Home page at https://lukefwalton.com/: Luke F. Walton founded Surmado, a technology company for small business. He is a multi-instrumentalist and produces, mixes, and arranges for artists such as Shingo Murakami, CHAI, bed, and OKAME. Scoobert Doobert is Luke F. Walton's primary music project; he is also half of the duo FEiN. On Spotify and YouTube, Walton's music has more than 50 million plays. He hosts the Love Music More podcast, with more than 200 episodes and 95 guests, including Andrew Scheps (Adele) and Craig Bauer (Kanye West). He also writes philosophy, fiction, and essays. The biography is the long version. The home page offers an "Ask the archive" search bar, described as not a chatbot, drawing on the music, episodes, essays, and papers. The Signatories, a novel by Luke F. Walton and Jonathan Gillie, is a 2026 Page Turner Writing Award finalist. The home page links to Music, Writing, Podcast, Press, and About, and to Scoobert Doobert, FEiN, and Love Music More on Spotify, plus LinkedIn, ORCID, Google Scholar, GitHub, and PhilPeople. Home doors (featured picks) on the page: the Andrew Scheps Love Music More episode, the research paper "The Captured Oracle" (who answers for an AI answer engine's verdict when no one visibly authored it), The Bent Stick essay (his Guillain-Barré recovery and lifelong study of Japanese and philosophy), the song "I'm an Idiot" from Big Hug, and the newsletter post "Why are there twelve notes?" A Japanese-language version of the site is linked from the home page at /jp/.

Themes: Surmado, Philosophy, Scoobert Doobert
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