Chiptune musician, performer, and code artist from Amsterdam, Netherlands, with a special interest in 1-bit music and binary modulation synthesis.
After a two-year hiatus, dat zekt and me teamed up again for a new Doppelplusungut release. As you might have guessed from the title, we’re going all in on the end-of-the theme this time (yes, even more so than usual). Other than that, be prepared for the usual dadaist noisy punky trash fest. Perhaps worth a mention is that our recording/editing setup got an overhaul this year, upgrading our two…
2023 has been a rough year for me. I had to deal with the severe illness and eventual death of a close family member. I was fortunate enough to be able to care for them during their final time, and learned some valuable life lessons on the way. Needless to say though it’s been tough emotionally. 2023 was also the first year in well over a decade when I didn’t perform any live shows. That…
Ah, the days when I would regularly post something new on here… perhaps I should get back into that, eh. For now though, this Year 2022 Retrospective will have to do. As I mentioned in the previous post, we released a new Doppelplusungut album earlier in January. We’re not doing a new one this winter, as I want to spend time on some other projects that have been stacking up since a long time. Also…
Another year, another Doppelplusungut. After last year’s online experiment, we both were craving to go back to the Rotz and do an album in the classic ++u way: a colorful mix of vastly different music styles executed with blissful incompetence, wrapping up a pun-filled, dadaistic radio play (in German). For the latter, we went with a fairy tale set in a bizarre underwater world this time. A gory…
Ah, winter. Nothing better than a good old rant to brighten up the day in this dull gray weather we’ve been having for several weeks now. Normally, dat zekt and me would have locked ourselves in at the studio for the month of December, to record a new Doppelplusungut. But well, things are a bit different these days. Long story short, as we live in different countries, we simply couldn’t meet up…
I guess you’re all looking forward to Chipwrecked 2020? Just in case, linda8bit and me made a little stop-motion animation to get you hyped up. We filmed everything on a nice day at the beach shortly after last year’s edition of Chipwrecked. Now we finally got around to adding some silly noises and finishing up the whole thing. Used Blender VSE once again, which remains my favorite tool for…
A new year, a new Doppelplusungut release. For the 11th time, my mate dat zekt and me spent the end of the year creating a complete music album plus a radio play from scratch in one month’s time. After a techno-heavy release last year, we return to a more classic Doppelplusungut sound this time. This year’s main theme is “smart devices & social media”, as you may have guessed from the title (which…
Brought the site over to a new server a couple of days ago. This one offers SSL out of the box - unlike the old one, which actually had the guts to charge for a LetsEncrypt certificate. In any case, the transition went pretty smooth as far as I can tell. The only issue might have been that mails to utz at this-domain may have bounced in the last days, though that should be fixed now. After hacking…
Wow, another 6 months have passed already. Time for an update. Most of my time goes into MDAL and Bintracker these days. As some of you may already know, I abandoned the original C++ implementation, and started from scratch in Scheme. To sum it up, things are coming along nicely, and I’m confident that Bintracker will become the all-powerful chiptune audio workstation that I envisioned. Recently I…
Got myself a new hobby: I’m now the maintainer of the pstk egg of Chicken Scheme. PS/Tk adds an interface to the Tk GUI toolkit to Scheme. Tk has gotten a lot of bad rep over the years, but since the major overhaul in version 8.5 it’s actually become a great option for building cross-platform GUI applications again. PS/Tk itself has a long history, dating back to scheme_wish which was developed by…