Two New Pieces!

I’ve been busy. That’s not an excuse, just a fact. But I’ve also been writing. Here’s the results. Commissioned by Catherine Ryu of Michigan State University’s Department of Linguistics and Languages, Heart Doubt was created out of the Mandarin syllables “wo ai ni” (trans. “I love you”) to show off the creative possibilities of the… Read More

Lingua Incognita

For two years, I worked closely with Dr. Catherine Ryu of Michigan State University’s Department of Linguistics and Languages in creating a unique audio database of all monosyllables in Mandarin across the various tonal levels; the Tone Perfect: Multimodal Database for Mandarin Chinese.  The goal of this project is to have an easily accessible repository… Read More

Linnstrument LED Controls

Based on a forum post, I created a quick and dirty (and very inelegantly coded) Max patch to allow control of the individual LED cells on a Linnstrument – both versions should work on either the Linnstrument 128 or 200. Both standalone versions will work with other DAWS and softsynths running (tested with Reaper running… Read More

Live Linnstrument Improv

Last night, I had the pleasure of performing live at Wayne State University’s Faculty Electroacoustic Music Concert with a number of other wonderful composers. I did something a little different for me. Instead of having a nice, safely planned set, I decided to do a live improvisation with a Linnstrument. The piece turned out extremely… Read More

Recordings!

Well, it’s come to this point – I’ve added a recordings page. Come check it out. Recordings… Read More

New Album

There have been some things in the works for a while now that I haven’t posted about thus far. Mostly this is because I wanted to make sure that they were completed before I started promoting them. Well, here’s the first. I’m very excited to announce that my piece Exploring the Remains of a Giant has been… Read More

A Brief Meditation on Templates

Recently, I’ve been pretty swamped with work. I’m teaching a Music Fundamentals course, helping with some grants, two major commissions, and of course, coding. So, I’ve been neglecting getting super deep into setting up the perfect Ableton Live session before jumping into the compositional process. So, in my spare time, I’ve been defining templates for… Read More

Exit, Day 1

Well, it works. The new site is up, it’s mostly running, and nothing is exploding yet. Time to take a break for the night, to resume tomorrow with the rebuilding process.… Read More