pemungkah.com

pe•mung•kah: noun

1. music for Balinese shadow plays
2. Joe McMahon, a musician and programmer from Silicon Valley 

 

music

I write, record and perform music deriving from many forms, particularly jazz, "classical" electronic music, ambient music, and Indonesian gamelan, with influences from a wide variety of artists: Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Wendy Carlos, Pat Metheny, Brian Eno, and even John Cage - lyrical pieces with unique timbres and harmonies. 

programming

I do Perl at my day job, but I'm learning Cocoa (both Java and Objective-C) for my own projects for both the Mac and the iPhone, and looking at both Ruby (especially Ruby on Rails) and Cappuccino for web development.

News

"Gamelan Collider", an abstract composition/improvisation using samples from Gamelan Kyai Paridjata was released on NTNS Records September 7th, 2009.

I was on the winning Games hackathon team at iPhoneDevCamp 3 with the "Critical Fumble" app.

"Ocean Music", ambient impressions of oceans ancient and modern, was released on the Earth Mantra netlabel; you can hear "The Trilobite Pool" as part of DJ In Vitro's "The Director's Cut".