Now

This page is for periodic updates about my current activities, projects, interests, and thoughts.

It was last updated May 13, 2026.

Current Activities

I recently wrote my first Neovim plugin, an REPL primarily aimed at musical live-coding, or “algorave” performances, but flexible enough to cover other use cases. It was a challenge at first, but very satisfying to figure out, and it's been useful too. In addition to using it with Tidal Cycles, it's been useful to set up the Lilypond scheme-sandbox command to let me learn Scheme in the context of extending Lilypond.

Speaking of which, I've been learning Lilypond and I'm doing my current composition project in it! I started looking into it when Finale was discontinued, and as I've grown to like Neovim more, and now prefer that workflow to many GUI ones, I decided to give Lilypond another go. It's been very nice (if a bit of a steep learning curve), and it's been helping me get back into writing music on the page, after a long spell of focusing on sound design with Max/MSP and various code projects.

I've come to appreciate older email etiquette (e.g., replies below quoted text), and I've also been pleased to discover that (I guess unsurprisingly) people still email like that on the lilypond-user mailing list.

Currently Listening

Fire-Toolz, Lavender Networks: any year where we get a new Fire-Toolz is a good year! She's on Warp Records now, which along with Autechre means that my favorite artists are all there.

Windows96, How to See through Walls: a friend on Bluesky was talking about this album, and “Near Death Experience” in particular feels deeply satisfying and nostalgic.

Currently Reading

A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper: a thrill-seeking couple — Carmen and Blanca — finds a strange play, The King in Yellow. If someone reads it for just a moment, they will have a rush of survivor's euphoria, but if read for too long, it will drive the reader mad. Carmen becomes more and more obsessed with spending time in the play's world, and the play's world begins to filter into the real one.

S. by Doug Dorst: presented as a library copy of Ship of Theseus by fictional author V.M. Straka, with handwritten notes in the margins between two college students. V.M. Straka is reclusive and mysterious, and conspiracy theories surround him, and the students' relationship grows as they dig deeper into this.