He Can Jog

never had a bat in my apartment before. that was freaky. he finally flew out the window.

Aug 9, 2026

ted chiang - likng what you see: a documentary

Aug 9, 2026

I spent some time tonight thinking about the LuvSound backend again. For the flat-file format, I was thinking about the nice bits w/r/t the activitypub protocol, and believe it or not, the wordpress data model. In activitypub, there is a kind of base content type that everything understands, and you extend from that in any way you like, knowing that only specialized clients will understand…

Aug 4, 2026

annette vande gorne - tao

Aug 3, 2026

aphex twin - icct hedral (philip glass orchestration)

Aug 2, 2026

Log: Saturday August 1st

I'm working on a remix of a short 5 channel piece constructed from the sounds of gas-filled ping pong balls. (From this excellent Daniel Blinkhorn album .) The original (Gossima Collective 1) has such shape in its 98 seconds. There's so much going on without ever collapsing into mush. It's a really wonderful piece of microsound. My general approach to the remix so far is to extract information…

Aug 1, 2026

once or twice

Jul 30, 2026

eric dolphy + someone grinding out some bricks in the building next to me

Jul 30, 2026

4hero - two pages

Jul 29, 2026

Log: Saturday July 25th

Finally did a bit of work on my instrument today! I think the last time I touched it was in May? Sheesh. The solenoid driver module breakout for it has been sitting partly done for much longer than that, though. I've had this nagging feeling that the way I decided to set it up was wrong. Today I decided to change part of it: rather than have the mosfet driver boards connect to a GPIO breakout for…

Jul 25, 2026

there must be something good to eat on my office windowsill. little birds (the adorable kind that are basically spherical) keep hopping around looking for it <3

Jul 22, 2026

trapist - highway my friend

Jul 22, 2026

Log: Wednesday July 22nd

Lovely lovely weather today

Jul 22, 2026

🎶 eggs, peppers, tempeh, salsa 🎶

Jul 21, 2026

cody yantis - half moon field

Jul 20, 2026

Log: Monday July 20th

I thought a little more about the luvsound backend tonight. Using plain text files as the canonical representation for each entity: eg releases, orders, etc. Doing reads and writes can be done directly in the filesystem, or through a cache of each record in an sqlite database. Writes to the database would be serialized into a write queue, with a single writer process that could be optionally…

Jul 20, 2026

stanley lieber - out of the drawer

Jul 19, 2026

radboud mens & matthijs kouw - 3/4, 1

Jul 16, 2026

themselves - it's them

Jul 15, 2026

eric dolphy's "straight up and down" has been stuck in my head on and off all summer <3 an angular summer song I guess! light refracting

Jul 11, 2026

barry truax - soundscape composition and microsound

Jul 11, 2026

eric dolphy - out to lunch

Jul 11, 2026

good morning little wasp, and a good morning to all of the many other members of your family swarming outside of my window

Jul 9, 2026

Log: Thursday July 9th

I got curious about the kernel errors I see on boot (usually!) complaining GET_CABLE_PROPERTY failed from the ucsi_acpi module -- and lo, this is actually a long-tracked issue that explains the frustrating behavior of the framework mainboard embedded in my instrument. The framework firmware fails to report its settings to the kernel and this causes device enumeration to fail (sometimes?) -- the…

Jul 9, 2026

barry traux - digital soundscapes / evol - fart synthesis / scott fields ensemble - 96 gestures

Jul 8, 2026

ultimate breaks and beats (the one with the space ship on the cover)

Jul 7, 2026

boris with merzbow - 2R0I2P0

Jul 5, 2026

peter rehberg - at grm

Jul 4, 2026

Log: Saturday July 4th

Computer Music Journal has been a year or more behind on their publishing schedule since the pandemic. They just published the Winter 2024 issue recently, it's been kind of confusing to be a subscriber. They must have a huge backlog? This morning I noticed there is a new article on their MIT press page from Barry Traux on microsound composition , dated June 10th 2026! I'm so excited to read this…

Jul 4, 2026

fons adriaensen - design of an audio oscilloscope application

Jul 3, 2026

Log: Friday July 3rd

You bet. (From UNIX System V Primer by Mitchell Waite, Stephen Prata and Donald Martin -- which is also riddled with typos, incorrect & sometimes offensive examples... But also it has lots of fun cartoons by Bob Johnson like the one pictured above!)

Jul 3, 2026

boards of canada - inferno

Jul 2, 2026

Log: Wednesday July 1st

This is an idle thought, but for once I guess I'll write it down. I'm working (slowly, it's a low-ish priority free time project) on a backend for luvsound which I'd like to eventually open source for other indies to use... the project so far is all go + sqlite. This has been fine. I like go. It's portable, relatively simple and easy to deploy. SQLite3 is great. It's extremely portable and given…

Jul 1, 2026

sorry to see bandcamp go...

Jun 30, 2026

the kendalls - heaven's just a sin away

Jun 30, 2026

Log: Tuesday June 30th

I added a statement about "AI" to this website. Speaking of LLMs -- this surreal spam is all over bandcamp now: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Abandcamp.com+covers.pics A few of my albums are being used for this. Not all of them use the same spam domain. I'm very sorry that bandcamp has become a hollow shell of itself. It was a good thing when there were humans who cared about music behind it.…

Jun 30, 2026

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