I salute you, MMT-8
Few pieces of gear are, on their own, really inspiring. Even the worst gear has its merits, but even the best sounding stuff isn't enough to be a wellspring of creativity.
music
Making it, listening to it, recording it, all that
Bob Moog and usability heuristics
Here's a rare intersection of my interests. This is actually a great article for UX folks who don't know anything about synthesizers.
The author makes the (accurate) argument that
Creating (more) music during the pandemic
I suppose I was fortunate, really. My band's drummer, who also wrote maybe 70% of the guitar riffs, finished his PhD and left the country to go work in Switzerland. Writing
Pedal bored
Like any mediocre guitarist, I spend a lot of time rethinking my tone and my pedalboard. Like any experimental musician who likes to turn guitars into other sounds, I spend a lot of
Scott
This one is tough. Mark Hollis recently passed, and that was difficult to process but in the musical sense he was already gone, having left a near-perfect legacy of forward-thinking avant-pop that to