Specialization is for Insects

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Updated Meta-trombone pedalboard now in stereo

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I haven't looked back since moving my meta-trombone from the Macbook Pro to the pedalboard in 2014. Playing with hardware has lead me t...

Hacking the Ditto looper for MIDI control

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I have long wished for a hardware looper that would allow me to record two loops of different lengths at once from the same source. It shou...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Hitchhiker Laboratories susSub

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A few years ago, I made a guitar pedal to emulate the sustain substitute function from the Echoplex Digital Pro . Should you need a demonstr...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Hitchhiker Laboratories Abattoir

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After a year of learning all I could about electronics, I have some results to show. I created my first effect pedal from scratch: the Hitch...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Matt Davignon Remix Album

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This is a quick update to spread the word about yesterday's release of Matt Davignon’s anniversary remix album celebrating 10 years of...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Meta-trombone on iOS

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When I was invited to perform at IMOOfest 2014 as part of the IMOO Chamber Orchestra (featuring Jean Derome and Joane Hétu ), festival org...
Monday, April 28, 2014

TANTRUM!

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In 1951 John Cage composed a piece for twelve radios titled Imaginary Landscape No. 4 . This piece is a continuation of Cage's thinkin...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Hello 6502 Assembly

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After many false starts (since age 12), I've finally managed to compile and run a machine language program on my Commodore 64. The code ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

2013 World Tour

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I haven’t had a chance to say very much on the subject of last year's world tour. My first concert was in Toronto in March. I performed...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

New comic book story

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I’m finishing up my two-page contribution to Éditions Trip’s upcoming release of Trip #8 . As you can see from the page below, it is about ...
Friday, February 7, 2014

OSCNotation 3.0

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Version 3.0 of OSCNotation has just been released on the Apple App Store . I started working on this update in December when composer Nico...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

My Commodore 64

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Lately, I've been obsessed with the Commodore 64 .  It all started when I read a fantastic little book that discussed a one line progra...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Meta-trombone: European tour edition

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Leading up to my currently ongoing European tour (concerts in Paris and Cologne); I  tweaked my meta-trombone yet again. The trombone...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Tools of the Trade – Meta-trombone Edition

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After every show, someone always wants to get more information about the technology that makes my meta-trombone possible. For the benefit o...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

2012 - My year in review

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A couple months ago, I made a track for a Disquiet Junto project called audio journal.  Here is my contribution: The year 2012 was quite ...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

The virtue of free

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Last year I released two apps for iOS: BreakOSC! and OSCNotation . Both used Open Sound Control (OSC) to accomplish very different things....
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Artist Statement

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Lately I’ve been giving some thoughts to developing an artist’s statement that would unite my various artistic endeavours.  Given my seemi...

Where I propose to go

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These last few months since Y2KX+2 have seen much development on my meta-trombone.  The first thing I wanted to do after those performan...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Live Recording from Y2KX+2

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I have released the live recordings from my performances in San Jose and Santa Cruz as an album on bandcamp.  All sounds were made with a tr...
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