Journal

Custom Firmware for the LilaC Repeater

Custom firmware for the centrevillage LilaC Repeater, built on the official 2.0 binary, lrv20.bin. There is no source, so every change is a patch to the binary itself. The…

Chaos CV Lab — Nonlinear Signal Guide

I've been writing command-line tools that send nonlinear and chaotic signals into the modular through the audio interface. These are the working notes: what shaping is, what…

Beat Works #1

Two excerpts. Untitled 31, 0:00–0:36. Untitled 30, 0:00–1:05.

What do I want from music?

I only started taking music-making seriously about a year ago, when I got into modular synths. Before that, I had played around with Fruity Loops and Ableton Live, but never…

Ben Vida

Ben Vida is a New York composer and sound artist who came up through Chicago's experimental scene with the group Town & Country. Around 2010 he moved from acoustic…

Reading Making Music with a Modular Synth

Dennis DeSantis's Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers isn't about modular synths, but several chapters fit the way I patch. I'd start with…

The NBA as a Hungarian

Ambient Works #19

Mastered excerpt from Untitled 19, 0:00–0:35.

Ambient Works #14

Mastered excerpt from Untitled 14, 0:00–2:40.