Writing

Newsletter

Click the button below to Creativity and Constraint, my monthly-ish newsletter where I discuss my research into the use of constraint techniques, my compositional practice, or other topics that I’m thinking about!

Subscribe

Blog Posts

  • On Analyzing Timbre with SPEAR

    As I have spent time working in OpenMusic over the past several years, I’ve become more and more familiar with using the program SPEAR for spectral analysis. The SPEAR initialism stands for Sinusoidal Partial Editing and Analysis Resynthesis and the application is…

  • On Form and Time

    When I started composing, I was keenly aware of the importance of form. As a middle school pianist writing my first pieces, I knew the basics of binary, ternary, sonata, and rondo form and spent quite a bit of time ensuring that…

  • On Concatenative Synthesis

    In 2022, I had the delight of learning to use Dr. Benjamin Hackbarth’s software AudioGuide. It’s a collection of python scripts that empower composers to perform concatenative synthesis – a technique in which the computer will approximate a target sound sample using sound segments from a pre-specified corpus of samples. This…

  • On Typography & Design

    I have always admired beautiful books, beautiful documents, beautiful typefaces. Like many composers, I stumbled into a fascination (obsession?) with clean, elegant typography as a result of engraving my works. Committed engravers spend a great deal of time developing their…

  • Obsidian for Score Study

    I’ve been using Obsidian to assist my work as a composer for almost two years. There’s a variety of ways that I’ve found to incorporate Obsidian into my practice, but today I wanted to look at some simple techniques that…

Papers