I started out composing a number of pieces for classical instrumentalists and ensembles, focussing mainly on chamber music. Electronics and field recordings were often present as a means of extending or providing a counterpart to the classical instruments — an aspect that went hand in hand with my interest in rethinking classical concert formats.

10 to 15 years ago I was inspired by the means that smartphones and tablets provided for bringing sounds, texts & graphics together in an intimate & focused way. This site contains some of my experiments in this field. Since then the digital/media landscape has changed radically and those explorations feel out of place in our current world.

Over the course of the last decade my focus has returned to sound. I’ve been active in the Audulus (modular audio) community, and have built a number of modules for the platform. Check them out on the Audulus Forum and Discord as well as YouTube.

Alongside the modular stuff I’ve been busy, together with the author Lene Henningsen, with ‘poetic podcasts’, a ‘medium’ that in its own way brings together the threads of sound, text & graphics.

Background

I was born in South Africa, grew up there and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand before moving to Europe in my mid-twenties to study music first in Germany and later The Netherlands. I’ve been living and working in Copenhagen since 2004. You can also read a more extensive biography and outline of my interests or find a more traditional Bio/C.V. if you need something for a programme booklet.

About this Site

After many years of the joys and frustrations of coding static HTML by hand I switched to Kirby — a simple file-based CMS that has provided a well-thought-out toolkit while at the same time allowing me to keep in close contact with the nuts and bolts of it all. Texts are prepared in iA Writer and coding is done in Panic’s CODA NOVA, another fine piece of software. After many years of using Erik Spiekermann’s Meta and Meta Serif I changed to IBM’s open source Plex. Read their full story on the typeface here. ¹

Analytics on this site are powered by Matomo, an open source, self-hosted web analytics package that respects your privacy. It will respect your browser’s do not track setting and I’ve set it not to set any cookies.

Webmentions

This site uses Webmentions to collect responses, comments, reposts and likes/favourites/bookmarks from other sites that have published something that contains a link to my site, and notify my site of it. Since most of my tweets (back in the day when I used Twitter) originated on this site (following the IndieWeb POSSE principle), that means that many responses to them on Twitter were in turn also reflected here. This process now continues with Mastodon, with the result that, in connection with any of those public responses, your name, profile picture, the URL of your website or social media profile, as well as the response itself may also be displayed here. If you’d like me to remove any of that information simply send me an email and I’ll gladly do so. That said, with various changes to plugins I’ve used to display them, they currently only go back as far as 2024.

You can also subscribe to this site directly via ActivityPub using your favourite Mastodon client, or any other app that supports the protocol. Simply search for @[email protected].

Links

Some of the videos and music/sounds embedded on this site can also be found on SoundCloud and Vimeo, and since November 2023, my YouTube channel. I have various links collected on Pinboard, though they’re now mostly private by default, and have also collected stuff in a huffduffer podcast feed.

A number of years ago I was involved in the now defunct Frankenstein’s Lab, a show & tell/tryout session presented together with the Danish Composers’ Society. It unfortunately didn’t survive the COVID period, but there’s still some good stuff collected on the Frankenstein’s Lab website.