This is a blog. Music, Computers, etc. https://pbat.ch/blog This week I find myself thinking about story and map design for the Gestlings. You have died. Under usual circumstances, you'd have been sent off to the Usual Places. However, due to the cosmic equivalent of a clerical error, your consciousness wakes up on what it perceives as a moving train, very far from home, and even further from what that thing you called "reality". The next stop? Cauldronia, a small celestial body that is the homeworld of the Gestlings. It's probably going to be a while before they correct this mistake, so you might as well take a look around and explore. https://pbat.ch/blog/posts/2023-07-30-weekly-07.html Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:39:41 EDT This past week, I found myself thinking about symbols, sounds, and Mantras. https://pbat.ch/blog/posts/2023-07-24-weekly-06.html Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:30:40 EDT This week, I found myself manually "sculpting" a digital vocal tract using my monome grid and a very large knob. I also made some bitmap doodles. https://pbat.ch/blog/posts/2023-07-17-weekly-05.html Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:17:56 EDT This week, I found myself building a hyper-minimal "text editor" for the monome grid. I attempt to explain myself. https://pbat.ch/blog/posts/2023-07-10-weekly-04.html Sun, 10 Jul 2023 20:44:46 EDT This week, I found myself synthesizing the voice of a Tiny Creature. I did this while attempting to figure out more about the DSP behind Adult Swim's "Choir" Interactive Barbershop Quartet. I also reflect back on some of my previous attempts at synthesizing singing vocal ensembles. https://pbat.ch/blog/posts/2023-07-02-weekly-03.html Sun, 2 Jul 2023 20:24:31 EDT This week, I found myself reading about the aesthetics of permacomputing, fiddling with bits of fasttracker 2 engine code, and experimenting with small ortholinear grid interfaces. https://pbat.ch/blog/posts/2023-06-25-weekly-02.html Sun, 25 Jun 2023 21:10:42 EDT This week, I found myself implementing Glottal pulsed noise (a thing used in my singing synthesizer), completing my proto-gestling (proof of concept for my [Gestlings](/wiki/gestlings) project), and thinking about a concept in game development that I'm calling "asset-driven development". https://pbat.ch/blog/posts/2023-06-19-weekly-01.html Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:23:48 EDT This week, I find myself wanting to blog again... https://pbat.ch/blog/posts/2023-06-15-weekly-update.html Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:12:14 EDT