Personal Instrument Designs
Continual Transition: Making a Memory Machine (SCI-Arc Offramp, 2019)
Perspectives on Time: Performance Practice, Mapping Strategies, and Composition with MIGSI (NIME, 2019)
Minimally Invasive Gesture Sensing Interface (MIGSI) for Trumpet (NIME, 2016)
Electronic Music concepts / Techniques
Timbre & Digital Nonlinear Waveshaping (The Buchla Archives, 2024)
What is a Low Pass Gate? (Perfect Circuit, 2023)
Patching Tips: Using Sequencers as Oscillators (Perfect Circuit, 2023)
What is MPE? MIDI Polyphonic Expression + New Dimensions in Sound (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
What is a Modular Synthesizer? And Why Would You Use One? (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Using Control Voltage with Effects Pedals (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Guitar Effect Pedals + Modular Synths (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Synthesizer Polyphony: What Does It Mean? (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Polyphonic Modular Synth: Classic Approaches (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Connecting Your Computer + Modular Synths (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Getting Started with Field Recording: Tips and Tricks with Ian Wellman (Perfect Circuit, 2020)
Time-Based Effects: Exploring Time with the Make Noise Mimeophon (Perfect Circuit, 2019)
Learning Synthesis: Envelopes Pt. 1 (ADSR, AD, AR, & Friends) (Perfect Circuit, 2019)
Learning Synthesis: Envelope Pt. 2 (Arbitrary Functions & Beyond) (Perfect Circuit, 2019)
Learning Synthesis: VCAs (Developing Dynamics + Modulating Modulation) (Perfect Circuit, 2019)
Plays Well With Others: Modular Synthesizer in Collaborative Performance (Canadian Electroacoustic Community, eContact! 17.4, 2016)
electronic music history / historical instrument overviews
What is Language? (The Buchla Archives, 2024)
East Coast Synthesis vs. West Coast Synthesis (Perfect Circuit, 2022)
What is West Coast Synthesis…Really? (Perfect Circuit, 2022)
Digitech’s XP-300: Into the Space Station (Perfect Circuit, with Eldar Tagi 2021)
Vintage Moog Modular Synthesizer Filters: Defining the Moog Sound (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Oberheim Matrix-12: the Last Great Polysynth of the 1980s? (Perfect Circuit, 2020)
ARP 2600 Semi-Modular Synthesizer: The Best Synth of All Time? (Perfect Circuit, 2020)
Sequential Circuits Prophet VS: Timbral Trajectories & Vector Synthesis (Perfect Circuit, 2019)
Technos Acxel Resynthesizer: Additive Synthesis at the Turn of the 1990s (Perfect Circuit, 2019)
Technos Acxel Walkthrough: Concepts + Workflows for Additive Resynthesis (Perfect Circuit, 2019)
The Technos Acxel Resynthesizer (EMEAPP, 2019)
Selected Modern Instrument Reviews
Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2 Review (Perfect Circuit, 2024)
Infinite Textures: Make Noise Soundhack Spectraphon (Perfect Circuit, 2023)
The Year is 2022, and the Moog Minimoog Model D is Back (Perfect Circuit, 2022)
A First Look at Make Noise’s XPO Stereo Oscillator (Perfect Circuit, 2022)
Meet Moog’s Mavis: an Affordable Desktop Semi-Modular Synthesizer (Perfect Circuit, 2022)
Chase Bliss Habit: an Echo Collector…or Is It Time Travel in a Guitar Pedal? (Perfect Circuit, 2022)
Make Noise Strega: Alchemical Experiment + Cortini Collaboration (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Nonlinear Labs C15 Synthesizer: Is It Worth It? (Perfect Circuit, 2020)
Moog Claravox Centennial: Celebrating 100 Years of the Theremin (Perfect Circuit, 2020)
miscellaneous writings
Celebrating 500 Articles on Signal (Perfect Circuit, 2023)
Electronic Music: Allen Strange’s Classic Book Reissued (Perfect Circuit, 2022, with Eldar Tagi + Jason Nolan)
Beamz: the Future of Music Production is Here…and You Can Thank Flo Rida (Perfect Circuit, 2022)
Making Weird Sounds with Nick Reinhart (Perfect Circuit, 2021)
Type to Rhythm Machine: Interactive Live Stream and How to Use It (Perfect Circuit, 2019)