I've had the Santa Cruz Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) events on my calendar for maybe two years. This recurring event is a place where musicians can perform on their synthesizers, showcase their compositions, and share their cool, experimental sounds with like-minded folks. The series is hosted by
Adding life to the Eurorack case with a nonlinear voltage source.
So many songs have been written about desire. I wanted to go in a slightly different direction and question why we want things.
Despite a few setbacks, my home-built modular system now has voltage-controlled dynamics.
Building a 4 hp square/saw VCO from scratch.
Fear of a Google AI Planet pushed me to finally move off of Google Workspace for email and calendar services. Here's how I used Amazon WorkMail and imapsync to migrate.
After I racked the Cha Cha LFO module and started patching it to the Subharmonicon, I quickly discovered that the peak-to-peak waves coming out of that oscillator are only marginally useful. If I wanted to completely open and close a filter, say, it works great, but there isn't
In June of 2023, I got a great deal on a Rackbrute 6U and 3U set of cases from a coworker. I mounted my Subharmonicon and DFAM in the 6U for a nice, compact synth unit. The semimodulars don't take up the whole width of the case, though,
Use your own hostname as an alias to your Mastodon account.
I've had my eye on the MiniDexed open source project for a while, ever since I saw a video about the project by Floyd Steinberg. Eight DX7s on a Raspberry Pi? Heck yeah! This week, I finally ordered hardware: * Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 2019 Quad Core 64
It didn’t make the evening news (what are they trying to hide?) but last Wednesday, a terror arose from the depths to threaten all humankind. Tentacles, teeth, claws, fangs…it has all that, and hunger. Can 61 intrepid musicians stop this horror? Tune in to Bandcamp to find out!
I closed up the case on my Baby-10 sequencer project. Here's a demo video and a list of what I learned.