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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here is the new piece of software based around an Xbox 360 controller that I’ve been working on for about a year. It is called Cut Glove and it’s a live-sampling and processing patch that contains mappings based on video game mechanisms and metaphors. This…
Here it is. Finally… I am incredibly proud to present karma~, a dynamically lengthed, varispeed record/playback looper external for Max. And here is a tutorial video showing some of what karma~ can do: karma~, has been in somewhat active development since September…
I’ve been working on a relay-based hardware repatching instrument for quite a while. The idea being that I could use my computer (running Max) to control a bunch of my weird (ciat-lonbarde) hardware synths. I recruited Dan Wilson of Circitfied to build the transistor/relay…
After over a year, I’m finally putting out a version of The Party Van, a free software system/instrument/environment that I built in Max. It’s also officially out of beta now and the version numbers will reflect that. It has gone…
So back in March I got some funding from my school to bring one of my favorite instrument makers to the UK. Peter Blasser has been making crazy amazing instruments for years now, and I’ve been using them from the…
Had a gig the other night with two of my favorite performers (Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (we just finished recording a followup album) and Sam Andreae. You can see The Party Van in action on my side, with some more Max/MSP…
Finally finished the Specty, the more compact and portable version of my Specto instrument. It looks and sounds like this: For more info including build pictures and all of that click here.
So as you may know from some of my previous posts I’ve been doing lots of Max/MSP programming, moving my previously hardware-centric performance setup into the laptop. I recently put out the v05 version of my Party Van software, and…
The Chocolate Grinder is a software emulation of a skipping/glitchy CD player. It sounds like this: And looks like this: