This page is for periodic updates about my current activities, projects, interests, and thoughts.
It was last updated June 07, 2026.
Now
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 Reading
Agnes, We're Not Murderers by Jessica Alexander: a bookseller recommended this to me since I liked House of Leaves. I can't quite say what it's about yet, but red text and footnotes weave their way into the narrative, constantly directing the reader to other pages, commenting on the narrative.
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer: everyone can see what Annihilation is [1]
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.
Inspired by Derek Sivers' nownownow project.