documentation, research, experiments
All my life I’ve been playing music and exploring the beautiful phenomena of sound, just for the love of it. And to make ends meet I’ve also been a software developer, which is a solid living that’s also kind of fun. For much of my life I was often frustrated about how to split time [ ]
In Portland, Oregon there are an awful lot of bicycle DJs! By that I mean some bike its sound-loving rider hauling some large pile of DJ gear, maybe on a trailer, or maybe the bicycle itself has been modified to hold all the stuff: big loudspeakers, bigger subwoofers, audio sources and mixers, blinking disco [ ]
Every summer in Portland we throw a festival about bicycling: PEDALPALOOZA, in which local bike freaks publish a calendar full of entertaining excuses for bicyclists of every stripe to flock up and ride together in packs through our lush, tree-lined streets on our excellent smooth bicycle lanes past our ludicrously expensive restaurants, having fun and [ ]
In December of 2016, as promised, I built a new set of Bytebot Christmas ornaments, much fancier than the last batch. I originally planned to make a hundred of these, but in the end I stopped at 25 because they turned into just a crazy amount of labor. The decision to use recycled parts, well, [ ]
That worked! We will be in touch as soon as we re ready to launch.
SHAKE IT! Turn your POCKET OPERATOR into a live percussion instrument! Conduct and control your entire analog MIDI orchestra! UPDATE NOVEMBER 2023: Pocket Integrator has shipped! Get it now at Crowd Supply! We also have a new PI Portal to corral all the documentation and support. UPDATE JUNE 2022: To learn more about the [ ]
In September of 2016 I hereby promise to produce thirty crappy, corny, low-fi demo recordings, one for each day of the month.
Even I do not fully understand my robot fetish but it does feel good to have a fetish! A bunch of these little yodeling robo-pals were going to be my awesome 2015 Christmas presents. Instead, they are the prototypes for my even-awesomer 2016 presents. I call them Bytebots because the music they play is [ ]