A working diary of modular synths, recordings, and experiments.
Maryanne Amacher made music in which some of the sounds are produced inside the listener's ears. The phenomenon is called an otoacoustic emission. When the ear receives certain combinations of frequencies, the nonlinear mechanics…
Read the entry ↗I came across Eliad Wagner's solo set at the Goethe-Institut Boston, recorded on January 16, 2026 and presented by Non-Event, and fell into the research hole. Wagner is an…
Read the entry ↗I built a browser version of the chord drone I've been developing for the Librae Legio. It starts with the reel's six chords and adds two directions I'm exploring: upper…
Read the entry ↗Feedback patching with custom firmware on Noise Engineering’s Librae Legio, using QPAS, XPO, and Multigrain. Watch on YouTube.
Read the entry ↗The audio was made with Multigrain and a drum sample, with the X, Y and Z parameters each controlled by a different VCO. Watch on YouTube.
Read the entry ↗Following the Gábor Lázár research, I wanted to understand how his approach relates to Mark Fell. There is a lot of overlap: Max/MSP, algorithmic systems, unusual rhythmic…
Read the entry ↗Gábor Lázár has been working in Max/MSP for around fifteen years, and in recent years it has become his entire studio. His approach to composition centers on "compositional…
Read the entry ↗Inspired by Matthew Ryals’s 5 Levels of Feedback Patching Using Joranalogue Modules.
Read the entry ↗A short sound and image study built around a floating particle cloud. The sound pushes and brightens the particles, while small areas of blur appear briefly and then clear.…
Read the entry ↗Custom firmware for my Acid Rain Technology HEX, running Ripsaw, turning it into a four-voice chord drone instrument. One V/oct input plays and transposes a whole chord; the…
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