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

It was last updated February 08, 2026

Current Activities

The new teaching semester has started, and my university just finished putting together a recording studio. While we've had gear for the students to use in previous semesters of music recording & production, the studio is particularly nice for teaching that, and I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I've been wanting to learn how to write externals for Max/MSP in C for a while now, and I finally got around to learning how. I have one started, and it's turning out to be a lot of fun.

Recently I've been getting into TTRPGs (i.e., games like D&D). I had been wanting to find more in-person friends and activities, so I joined a group playing Pathfinder 2e at my local library. The group has been welcoming, and the game is turning out to be a lot of fun.

I also got married! My partner and I had a nice small ceremony in October with family and friends. I'm so excited to spend the rest of my life with them.

Currently Listening

Charli XCX — Number 1 Angel: I tend to get into artists' discographies surprisingly slowly, and despite liking Charli XCX for a long time, I hadn't listened to this one very much. The closer, “Lipgloss” has some amazing scratchy synth sound design, and I had fun trying to recreate it.

Autechre — “Dropp,” “VL AL 5,” and “Gantz Graf”: I've been listening to these for a long time, and they (along with numerous other tracks in Autechre's discography) have become my comfort music.

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.