Music

Every knob mapped, the shapes that move a sound, and how I use it.

• The panel, mapped
• Envelopes and LFO
• From oscillator to output
• How I make a bass patch · coming

Hear a chord progression leave home and come back, and type your own.

• Play and type your own
• The four-chord loop
• The 50s progression
• Twelve-bar blues
• The Andalusian cadence
• Pachelbel's Canon
• ii–V–I

Music is the other half of me. Some of it I make: a synth on my desk, chords you can play, and a link that works on every streaming service. Most of it I just love, record by record.

Bands I love, told record by record, in dots that move to the music.

• Pavement
• Ween
• Frightened Rabbit
• The Flaming Lips
• Geese
• Les Claypool
• Bob Dylan
• Neil Young
• Gram Parsons
• Townes Van Zandt
• Joy Division and New Order
• Doug Martsch
• Silver Jews and David Berman
• The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed
• Maynard James Keenan
• Mike Patton
• David Bowie
• Bill Callahan

Who played with whom, and when: one family tree.