About this site

I started this as an outlet to write about music technology, where my main interests concern tools for creating experimental and left-field electronic music (particularly computer music, glitch, noise, and IDM). With my writing, I’m interested in bridging the worlds of music tech journalism with in-depth academic papers to create resources for technically proficient musicians.

Topics of interest include: vocal synthesis, granular synthesis, physical modeling, virtual analog, effect design, algorithmic composition, circuit bending/bit bending, music cognition and perception, machine listening, sonification of mathematics, and music tech history. I’m an open source fanatic, and more broadly I advocate for music tech that is transparent, cost-efficient, and built for portability and long-term preservation. Some of my posts are dedicated to explaining established concepts, and others serve as lab notebook entries for projects I’ve undertaken.

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Artist bio

Nathan Ho is a Bay Area-based electronic musician combining contemporary classical music with brutal, percussive sound design drawing from breakcore, glitch, and bass music. His debut album “Haywire Frontier” was released on tokinogake in September 2023. He creates his music ex nihilo using only sounds synthesized in SuperCollider, and documents his process extensively in his technical resources on synthesis and digital signal processing.