Yarns & Rants
Notes from the notebook — on composition, data, sound, and the spaces between.
10 March 2026
The image is the videotrack
It all started with the idea of a multimedia installation where images serve the music. Turns out that's harder than it sounds.
8 February 2026
Tools all the way down
Counterpoint rules, tape splicers, stochastic processes, and now a machine I can talk to. The lineage of compositional tools is longer than the current debate suggests.
27 January 2026
Current obsessions, guilty and otherwise
The Q1/2026 edition of a semi-regular, entirely unstructured collection of what I'm reading, watching, and listening to when I should probably be composing (or do paid work).
4 December 2025
On data, sound, and the myth of objectivity
Every algorithmic choice reflects cultural and aesthetic positioning. There is no neutral translation from dataset to score, and that's precisely where the art lives.