I am excited to finally release Data Knot, a package for Max based on FluCoMa. It’s something I’ve been developing over the last 5 years or so, the last 3 of which were under the name SP-Tools. Data Knot…
In late 2023 I had the idea to expand the kind of feedback-based playing I was doing with pieces like Kaizo Snare by having some kind of robotic microphone arm holding an additional microphone that would be controlled by the…
Since I first saw it announced, I’ve been super excited about the Landscape NOON. It seemed to, in one box, do what I had been wanting to achieve with my experiments in modular synthesis for a while. Being able to trigger…
For the last few years I’ve been working on ideas and approaches to using electrics in a realtime/low-latency context with acoustic drums The most recent of these have been working with the FluCoMa Toolkit to do some of the…
A while back I announced the start of Amplifiers & Explosions, a a project, collective, community, and sometimes place which I started with Angela Guyton. Building on the play talk play series that I originally mentioned we now have another video…
I spent the better part of last year working on a performance that was a strange combination of things. It pulled together turntablism, feedback/friction, machine learning, signal decomposition, 3d printing, robotics…and a snare drum. All of these were ideas I…
As mentioned in my last blog post, the last few years have been strange ones, with lots of limbo and lots of waiting. Well one of the more exciting things that I was waiting for was Amplifiers & Explosions, a…
I like to picture that there are an infinite number or realities, all running in parallel. The entirety of my existence, everything I have ever known is but one of these. I represent a single point on this infinite line.…
Although this idea/piece is a couple of years old now, I realized I’ve not written about it in any detail (although I have talked about it on several occasions). So this is that. But more than that, I want to…
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by a close friend, Dan Derks, earlier this year for his podcast about the lines forum called Sound + Process. We cover a lot of ground ranging from software design, to the importance…
Let me tell you a story about the last eight years of my life, when I developed a special relationship with the last twelve seconds of Shania Twain’s “You’re Still The One”:
Over the years I have had many wonderful discussions with people whom I have never met. Either through emails, forums, or even chatrooms I have talked about all manner of things with people scattered around the world. Sometimes these virtual friendships…
The Black Box project is a project that involves Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on bass/electronics, Patrick Saint-Denis on robotics/electronics, Sylvain Pohu on guitar/electronics, and myself on drums It’s a four-way collaboration that has gone through two residencies (in Montreal and Huddersfield), to work out…
I was very young when I started learning music. My household was a musical one, with my mother playing piano and grandmother and great-aunt being being piano teachers. Growing up, I had 3 hour piano lessons every day, which I…
I was sitting in a cafe with a few friends and we ended up talking about how “just making it up” was often used as qualifier when talking about shitty music. Like seeing someone perform, it sucking, and thinking “it…