Blue Echoes, Reflected September 20, 2023 | Leave a comment I lied – here’s one last (and I swear, it’s REALLY the last) piece from this summer. Blue Echoes, Reflected for Mandolin and Computer. The score and MaxMSP files are here (requires SPAT5 from IRCAM), with various stereo (45°, 67.5°, and 90° placements), quadrophonic, and octophonic versions in the zip file. A binaural recording can… Read More
Wendigo Étude September 5, 2023 | 2 Comments One final piece to upload before the start of the semester, and the inevitable dry spell as most of my time will be devoted to teaching/grading for six courses at the university. So here’s a project I’ve been working on for a while now, Wendigo Étude, an Ambisonic acousmatic work that focuses exclusively on narrative… Read More
Caprices for Solo Mandolin September 2, 2023 | Leave a comment It’s been a long time coming, but it’s time to release the hounds… er, Caprices for Solo Mandolin. Begun during the pandemic lockdown, the seven caprices are technical challenges that I wrote for myself. While difficult (extremely difficult in some cases), they are all playable with practice. Below are the notes on the Caprices as… Read More
Ambisonics June 17, 2022 | Leave a comment I’ve been doing a lot of work with Ambisonic audio in the last year. While I love the addition of a height component to surround sound work, it’s really the fact that it can be decoded to other formats without any data loss that’s really the attraction. Need an octophonic version? Sure! Stereo? You got… Read More
Performances and Playlists February 26, 2022 | Leave a comment Well, now that post-COVID performances are starting to occur, I’m happy to say that I have a TON OF THEM COMING UP! Check the Performances page for more. Also of note. I’ve been revamping my mostly-for-teaching YouTube channel to now have a dedicated playlist of Performances and Tech Demos. Enjoy!… Read More
Miasmatic Patterns February 27, 2021 | Leave a comment Miasmatic Patterns was written at the request of Jon Fielder for his modular synthesizer remix project. Fortunately, this corresponded perfectly with my university’s break, giving me a chance to actually compose a piece mid-semester; a very rare occurrence, and one that I was determined to jump at given that the last 12 months have been… Read More
New Max Toys! January 10, 2021 | Leave a comment Added some new MaxMSP toys the SenselScrubber and That Sounds Familiar. Both require a Sensel Morph, and That Sounds Familiar also requires the Bach and Dada packages for MaxMSP. Videos below!… Read More
New Album! December 2, 2020 | 2 Comments In the spirit of the holiday season, I’m dropping a surprise new album: Synthesizer and Computer Works Enjoy!… Read More
Linnstrument EDO Mode January 27, 2020 | Leave a comment This is a really late post. I actually completed the code is September, but have been slightly overwhelmed with work, teaching, performing, and haven’t posted it yet. So here it goes… After digging deep into how MaxMSP handles NRPN’s, I’ve created a set of patches that use NRPN messages, and collections of tunnings from Sevish’s… Read More
Scanline Synth January 21, 2020 | Leave a comment Recently I’ve been playing around with different ideas for instruments in MaxMSP. I rewrote my GrainSieve patch as a Max4Live instrument for a performance, sketched out a bunch of stuff in my notebook that will probably never see the light of day, and created what I’m calling the Scanline Synth. Simply put: it converts images… Read More