keeping up

found a smile

2023. Alesis MMT-8, Akai S2000, Yamaha PSS-680, Yamaha PS-3, Fender Jazzmaster, Fender Precision Bass, Orange Crush 20, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

Apr24BarMelody

Short live set for Bit-Scape 2021. Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Mackie 1604-VLZ3.

Live @ Bit-Scape 2021 (Commodore SID only set)

2024. Atari 2600, Yamaha PS-3, Texas Instruments Speak & Spell (circuit bent), Teac 3340s, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

EntrebV_Sw6X

2024. Texas Instruments Speak & Spell (circuit bent), Casio MT-240 (circuit bent), Yamaha PS-3, Teac 3340s, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

SlkCHR$

2024. Casio SK-1 (circuit bent), Yamaha PS-3, Teac 3304s, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

RESCnd

New mixed and studio version of my live performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MzLDqkwIes&list=PL_Rd64wvj32cgK77b7j844fUfTk2b002L&index=10

remembrance (doomed)

Minimalism isn't always what you think it is ( like classic Chain Reaction) - sparse, longform, gradual development, long crossfades, around a core looping phrase or rhythm. One subspecies of minimalism is this: Minimalese - lush, ecstatic, deeply textured, wending its way around a swung core loop or riddim (closer to #SteveReich, say, or even #OrenAmbarchi). This mix, in particular, will leave you feeling buoyant. The whole EP is upbeat (for a change). Maybe we need these small doses of feelgood as an antidote to all the grim fuckery that's going on around us and in us? (<written in early May, 2025. Will probably be deleted some time later).

Minimalese.sonophyla

Minimalese II _Air Cnoc nan Sìthichean [ext. mix]

From Three Lo-Fi Pieces For Electric Saz, released May 1, 2025
The main instrument here is an electric saz, over drones and noises
https://cartonsonore.bandcamp.com/album/three-lo-fi-pieces-for-electric-saz

Heavy Pit (from Three Lo-Fi Pieces For Electric Saz, 2025)

Got your own crocodile toy keyboard? Want to play these tunes yourself? Then get the sheet music now, available with every download on Bandcamp!
https://thewholeworldwindow.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-a-crocodile-toy-keyboard

Are you bored from just listening? Do you want some visuals with your music? Then point your eyes to the companion YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC3hdECjvZo

This project has been an exercise in musical asceticism, and is a repudiation of gear videos that make you want to buy all the latest and hottest equipment. Equipment that, once acquired, will quickly gather dust in some distant shadowy corner.
It's a showcase of despicable cheap plastic junk destined for the trash bin, and all the limited potential it has on offer, if you just put all your time and energy into it (while being chronically sick). The results might not amount to much, yet probably to more than you expected.

The audio is recorded from the line output that my father added. Thanks, dad!

Notable keyboard limitations: Only one note can be played at a time (two notes if no note is already playing). Every note sounds for the same duration, no matter how long a key is pressed, though only up to six notes can sound at once.
Play too fast and notes will cut off due to the polyphony limit. Play too slow and notes will reach their end before you want them to and leave an undesired gap. I've used a metronome while recording for those reasons.
The vibraphone setting was especially difficult to write for, since it sounds distorted if too many notes sound at the same time.
Also, damn those keys!

Power On

Die Musik hier habe ich gemacht,
- um dazu zu lernen
- um auszuloten, welche Musik ich machen möchte
- weil ich krank war
- weil Sonntag war

I made this music
- to learn the craft
- to realize what kind of music I want to make
- because I was sick
- because it was Sunday

Power On

The Whole World Window