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I added a little more context and organization to my music page. I've been playing and sharing live long-form jams consistently for a month now!

This live set by JD3 is just so perfect. The instrumentation, the subtle progressions, the transitions between tunes—it's all exactly what I want to eventually be able to accomplish in my own electronic live sets.

A year ago today I uploaded Walkers, which was my first real attempt at creating a song. A lot has happened since then! It's all on my Music page.

Today, here's Pepcumber, a neo-soul/trip hop jam that I improvised live last night on Instagram.

I haven't really been writing about my musical journey but I think maybe I should take more notes.

Tultywits: talk of and use the little things you want to survive. I try!

A good source of inspiration: a list of winners of the short-lived Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance

Note to self, for future patching: Synthesizing Brass Instruments

Every month or so I have to decide if I'm going to buy a new MIDI sequencer or work on the one I started building. After last week's OP-Z jam, I think I have enough desires to pick the latter again!

I’ve spent the last few hours listening to the same four-bar house loop while tweaking a visualization for a DJ set. Feels like 2009 again!

"Illustrated Interactive Panoramas:" TessaScape

I spent a lot—like, a lot of time playing with VCV Rack this weekend. I've been worried for my wallet about diving into modular synths but having a free software platform seems to satiate me for now! I've made a few patches and found that the Beatstep Pro is the perfect tactile companion to the many available modules. Here's my first patch!

It's a strange feeling to find one's new canon two decades after it was published: Hypertext Gardens (↬ Liam)

Todayborday is Labor Day.

“You don’t know anything about The Lion King” is perhaps the harshest thing anyone has ever said to me

Putting this into the universe because I don't want to have to build it myself but so help me I will:

A native-app WYSIWYG HTML editor with FTP support that recognizes repeatable content within a page (like sections) or across pages (like a footer). Minimal design controls—maybe just basic typography—but allows non-web devs to keep copy on a static brochure-style website up to date and does not impose a build system.

Here is what I’d do: I would drink coffee, and the twist is, I would also walk outside. That was the whole thing.

My favorite game on the Nabisco Entertainment System? Probably Super Oreo Bros

David Lynch is sharing daily weather reports on YouTube.

I’ve been watching this man solve extremely contrived Sudoku puzzles on YouTube for a few weeks now, I guess, but this latest one is really something special.

I'm designing a MIDI step sequencer! I had my first successful test last night, so I've started documenting the process. If things keep going well I'm going to jam with this system over the weekend.

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