I have a blog now
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I'm writing about sound, cognition, and difficult music. My nascent interest in cognitive science is coming out and saying hello. Recent post topics include Lionel Marchett—a French musique concrète composer—and his obsession with UFOs; how evil Zbigniew Karkowski is; and the state of the art in mind-reading technology.
There will be more, more, more. Please read and share.
Portfolio
Max/MSP
Purple Morcellator v2
A loop slicer for live improvised performance. Purple Morcellator evenly divides loops into a given number of sections for reordering, stuttering, and playback speed modification. Loops can be processed with VST plugins. Contains a modulation section comprising two LFOs and a random number generator, as well as an interface for modulating specific VST plugin parameters. Great for glitchy stuff.
New in version 2: Better VST parameter editing/modulation, numerous bug fixes, now a Universal Binary.
Download Purple Morcellator as a Max/MSP patch.
Download Purple Morcellator as a Mac OS X Universal Binary.
Watch the Purple Morcellator tutorial screencast.
Metropolis
A polyrhythmic metronome.
Download Metropolis as a Max/MSP patch.
Download Metropolis as a Mac OS X Universal Binary.
Watch the Metropolis tutorial screencast.
Writing
The Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to the Principles of Music Synthesis
A fittingly titled introduction to the principles of music synthesis, with copious illustrations and examples in PureData.
Web Design and Development
I worked with Cambodian Living Arts to design and build a site which would keep donors and other interested parties abreast of CLA activities, as well as showcase selections from their media archive. The site is driven by a custom content management system built with Ruby on Rails.