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Links
Links to reading, tools, and other resources for DSP, computer music, and the Web. As Olia Lialina notes, at one point “every web site had a section of external links because people felt it was their personal responsibility to… build the infrastructure” of the Web. As search engines crumble, I find curation by humans ever more valuable.
Music Listened in 2025
Artists, albums, and songs I discovered, revisited, and otherwise enjoyed in 2025
Favorite Music
A list of some of my favorite artists, composers, and pieces of music. If applicable, tracks are ordered by album year and in album track order.
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.
IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two
I've been mostly making music tools rather than writing music. Today I'm talking about getting out of this rut with a “take two” on my current composition.
IndieWeb Blog Carnival—“Renewal”
I often feel compelled to tweak and redesign my website at the expense of other things I value. I talk about reconnecting with what I most enjoy about composing and coding, and avoiding treating my leisure and projects as if I need to impress someone.
Databending Part 3—Glitching MP3s with Python
I'm continuing my databending series. Today we'll discuss how to use Python to easily glitch up MP3s, adding warbles, clicks, and other cool noise!
Liked | Rainbow Language (Is For Losers)
Databending Part 2—Hacking MP3s
I'm continuing my databending series with a look at MP3s. We'll talk about how to glitch and corrupt them into oblivion while still leaving them playable!
Databending Part 1—Raw Data in Audacity
Did you know you can listen to pretty much any file as an audio file? Let's look at how it works and what it sounds like!
Radio—Listening Musically, Being Haunted
Listening to shortwave radio signals, discussing my emotive reaction to the signals, and composing music with them
Music Listened This Year (2024)
Artists, albums, and songs I've enjoyed the most in 2024
Hypertext, the Memex, and Collaboration as Socialization
What if socializing on the Internet were more like editing Wikipedia? Read on to know why I'm thinking about this!
Liked | DM Synthesis
Liked | Fedimanifesto
Connecting Notation Programs to Max/MSP
Getting Dorico and Max/MSP to talk via MIDI—it really helps my composition!
Composition Journal, May 4, 2014
Max/MSP sample mangling with lo-fi piano, percussion & vinyl noise for my work-in-progress "Forget your name"
New Album Announcement
My trio "If this reaches you" is on Apply Triangle's new album, out on April 12!
RSS Is Nice
My process of adding RSS to my blog, my rediscovery of how nice RSS is, and some music blogs I've been enjoying
Reading and Listening List, Mar. 1, 2024
Links and discussion of what I'm currently listening to and reading
Composition Journal, Feb. 27, 2024
Spectral compositing sound design from my work-in-progress “Forget your name”