My interests cover a lot of ground in a lot of areas, and I’ve created a number of online resources to give back to the Universe at large for the good luck and happiness I’ve been given. Here’s some of my interests, along with pointers to downloads and other information:
Perl
on search.cpan.org
My various public Perl modules.
on perlmonks.org
My writeups and comments on Perlmonks. (I don’t participate there anymore: see this page and this page for why.)
use.perl.org journal (ave atque vale!) and blogs.perl.org blog
My Perl-related blogging activities. Mostly idle at the moment. (Too much Python and Ruby!)
Go
My article on Go multiprogramming on Medium.
iPhone
StillStream Radio
My first, 5-star-rated, iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app.
RadioSpiral
The RadioSpiral streaming app. Currently working on more enhancements. Show calendar, album art, make a not-connected-to-Facebook “approval” button to let us know, anonymously, what tracks you really liked.
Design
Different Skies 2007 promo materials and CD, and other CD packaging at Behance
Posters, CD design, and audio editing/mastering.
Music
The EMUSIC-L archive and blog
EMUSIC-L and its partner list, SYNTH-L ran on BITNET in the early days of the Internet. Still a useful cache of information on older electronic music topics, and a rare historic document of the period. The Woridpress site broke at some point, and getting in to ibiblio.org has become enough of a hill to climb that it’s remained so. I may rehost the archives here at a later date.
iTunes
Shatterday, in the only format in which you can still purchase it..
Earth Mantra
Ocean Music, an ambient album with a classic electronic music twist (also on Bandcamp)
3AM, a late-night meditation with piano and electronics (also on Bandcamp)
NTNS Netlabel
Gamelan Collider, a deep electronic minimalist exploration of 130 gamelan samples via Forester.
SoundCloud
A number of tracks submitted to the Disquiet Junto, including Red Slash, a tribute to 1950’s tape manipulation, and Ligeti Voyage, an exercise in extreme digital manipulation which took an art song and transformed it into a huge women’s chorus with organ accompaniment (faved by Warren Ellis, holy crap!)
Aural Films
Fog Music 39: Imaginary Seascape #1, a piece for processed foghorns, ship’s bell, wooden sailboat, and gulls.
on Bandcamp
Radio Free Krakatau, completely composed and performed on a mutating set of patches in VCVRack. The patches were lost when I was laid off from WhiteHat without being able to fetch my personal files from my work laptop; I did eventually locate a screenshot of one of the patches, and reconstruct it from that.
From the Disquiet Junto, a collection of tracks composed for the Junto. Continues to expand as I do more tracks.
ERASE, an experiment with super-wide Paulstretch windows and classical music, turning music gestures into long chordal smears, pianos into organs, and vocalists into Ligeti choruses.
emblem, an all-Scape album. Recorded after I’d finally unlocked all of the Scape scenes and objects, and contains several experiments trying to push the program as far as I could make it go.
Big Sur, a collection of field recordings along the Monterey and Big Sur coast. (Side note: two recordings are at Monastery Beach, not Carmel River Beach, which I only found out later is known as “Mortuary Beach” to locals. It combines extremely cold water, a deeply-shelving shore, and a treacherous gravel beach to be a near-perfect drowning machine. The recordings were made from right near the shoreline. I was very lucky.)
3AM, late-night piano and electronics, described as “…captur[ing] the feel of being very much alone with your thoughts in the wee hours of the morning…a deep and thoughtful melancholy runs through the music. Pauses between notes become the stillness of a deserted night. Trilling electronics work their way through the piece. There is a wonderful sense of slight waywardness, that place between needing to keep walking the night until things sort themselves out in your head, and knowing that you should just go home and sleep it all off.”
Decoherence, a study in extreme processing. The original was a short recording of my acoustic piano, done on the spur of the moment with a Zoom H2 recorder. I took this sonically-so-so recording, stretched it with Paulstretch, and then subjected it to extreme spectral and granular processing, then edited the results together to make the final track, a ghostly, slowly-fragmenting semblance of the original.