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A blog about my personal interests, including composition and sound design; audio programming using Max/MSP, C++/JUCE, C, Rust, and SuperCollider; and web development and philosophy on the IndieWeb

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IndieWeb Movie Club: “Alien”

Re-watching a sci-fi classic to discuss with IndieWeb friends, and thinking about the music and sound design

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Music Listened in 2025

Artists, albums, and songs I discovered, revisited, and otherwise enjoyed in 2025

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On a Knife-Edge

The clouds cascade above you in incredible detail. In places, their bases form an impenetrable ceiling, but that ceiling is temporary. Wisps of shadow float against glowing shards of the sun, illuminating another layer behind…

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Reverb Part 2—Natural Rooms with Allpass Rings

I discuss some lovely-sounding reverbs that make echo densities build up over time, as in a real room. They're available in my VST/AU plugin, and I link to Max/MSP versions as well.

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A Certain Sickness

You feel that a certain sickness has been pervading your life. It's a dull ache that suffuses subtly through many unrelated things, a background radiation to your everyday…

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ルビとHTML

I took a few years of Japanese classes in undergrad, and today I'm returning to that and discussing some HTML markup for Japanese and other East Asian languages.

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We're Getting Married!

Eli and I are engaged, and we're getting married later this year!

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IndieWeb Carnival: Tone Colors

For this month's IndieWeb Carnival, I'm writing about music that emphasizes timbre or “tone-color,” and how I use this kind of approach in my own composition.

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