Shooting: Rangefinders
May 12, 2026
There's something special about shooting on rangefinder cameras. Even though they fell out of fashion after the ascendance of SLRs in the 1960s, rangefinders still offer a unique and compelling shooting experience. In this post I'll share how I became interested in rangefinders, my thoughts on the six rangefinders I've shot on, and why I'm now drawn to them over SLRs.
Report: Algorithmic Art Assembly v3.0
April 29, 2026
The Algorithmic Art Assembly v3.0 took place March 26-28 at the Gray Area/Grand Theater in San Francisco. My friend James and I were there to take in three days of talks and concerts. Here were the highlights from that trip.
Update: Into the Visual
November 17, 2025
Don't let my silence for the past three years fool you. I've been up to stuff. Some pretty different stuff, in fact. Here's how I moved from audio programming to visual programming to film photography over the past three years.
Exercise: Plotting Csound Data in Python
September 21, 2022
Recently in my quest to find a good GUI framework for building Csound instruments I've been exploring Python and PyQt5. Before this I was exploring Node.js and Electron, but I ran into frustrating problems displaying Csound data in that framework. So when I switched to PyQt5 the first thing I focused on was displaying data. I'm happy to report that the results thus far have been great. Here's the way I've found to display amplitude and frequency data quickly and smoothly.
Update: Csound, Node.js, and Electron
September 5, 2022
I've spent the last few weeks trying to build a Csound GUI with Node.js and Electron. My immediate goal has been to revive my Mell Fark project, but my longer-term goal is to find a framework to build other Csound GUIs with going forward. Alas, I suspect Node.js and Electron won't be that framework. As much as I enjoy working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for rendering GUIs, I've grown frustrated with the Node.js environment.
Update: Now with Staticman Comments!
August 20, 2022
It's official. This is now a web development blog. Well, not really.
After spinning up my new website a couple weeks ago I started to work on my Csound/Node.js project. That's what I wanted to post about, but I ran into frustrating performance issues with the Electron framework. By last weekend I was despairing that I'd never figure out how to build a performant Csound GUI in Node.js. That's probably not true, but the coding process can be discouraging like that.
I decided I "needed a win", so I set aside the Csound project and turned my attention to incorporating comments into my website using Staticman. Even with this project I nearly hit a wall and couldn't do it, but in the end I got it all set up in a few days.
Update: New Website
August 8, 2022
You might not realize it, but my website has been completely rebuilt. Like most things, I stumbled into this project while working on a different project. This time, in my quest to control Csound with web technologies I fell down the Node.js rabbit hole, which led down the static site generator rabbit hole, which led down the GitHub Pages rabbit hole, and so on. Less than two weeks later I have this shiny new static site built with an ultra-minimalist custom script. So long Joomla! Here's how it all happened.
Update: Ear Surgery
August 6, 2022
As I mentioned in a recent post, earlier this year my right ear began to get severely fatigued after band practices. The symptoms included ear pressure, hearing diminishment, and headaches. Wearing ear protection didn't help. It became disorienting and stressful for me, which led me to the Mayo Clinic's Ear, Nose, and Throat department in Rochester, Minnesota. But there's a bigger picture.
Project: Mell Fark, Part One
July 16, 2022
And just when I wrote, after a year’s absence from the blog, that I’m not doing computer music, I’ve suddenly been swept back into computer music in the past week. It’s Gábor Lázár’s fault. His new album Boundary Object on Planet Mu immediately gripped me and told me to get back to work.
Update: The Past Year
July 4, 2022
And just like that a year has passed. In my last post back in April of 2021, I described a major coding project involving p5.js and Web Csound which culminated in a live performance. As I mentioned at the end of the post, I hit a coding wall immediately after this frenzy of activity. Then, just as I was beginning to take on my next music coding project, I met someone who derailed everything and sent me on a radically different musical path.