Suncatcher

On the Split Rock trail in Joshua Tree National Park.

Ogre

On the Split Rock trail in Joshua Tree National Park.

Divided Highway

Lesser Materials

Fluff

Don’t We All?

For those viewing on phones: the graffito reads I WISH IT WAS THAT SIMPLE.

Angle Dance

Opinions on orientation differ.

All a-flutter

Kennedy Grove, Orinda, California

Shipshape

The hull of the USS Hornet on a cloudy morning.

Man Rune

Changing Planes

Possibly more clever than good, but it was fun to find the exact spot where everything lined up.

Arcade

Alameda Naval Air Station, California

The Trumpeter’s Shadow

Outsound New Music Summit, Berkeley, California

Be Prepared

RIP Tom Lehrer.

Fits and Starts

Alameda Naval Air Station, California

All Things Must Pass

Insect Collection

Waiting to be turned into sculpture by Dustin Otterbach.

Kitchenette

Not sure what the plan was here, but fire was clearly the priority.

New Clear Day

An unusually austere example of the jackrabbit cabin.

Diamond

Such a tidy catastrophe.

Trolled

Dolls Left Alone

Perspective

Perspective, in more than one sense. The grave of hope?

New album released by Mystery Fix: Life to Life

Mystery Fix’s debut album Life to Life is released, on Gare du Nord Records! This is my synthpop project, currently featuring Anton Barbeau as singer and lyricist. You can pre-order the album and check out two of its tracks on the Mystery Fix site.

New album released by Shalmaneser: Vierhebigkeit

Vierhebigkeit (Tim Walters’ fifth album as Shalmaneser) is a fresh and friendly mixture of simple melodies and modular synth timbres—rainy-day activity music for your inner robot child. Vierhebigkeit captures the spirit of early electronic pop music while inventing a distinctive twenty-first century style. Believe in the bear, and the bear will believe in you.

New Shalmaneser video: With Prune and With Prism

Andrew Juris has made a very cool video for the Shalmaneser track “With Prune and With Prism”, from the forthcoming album Vierhebigkeit. Check it out!

New album released by Tim Walters: Stricture

This is my first electroacoustic album created with Eurorack synthesis, after working almost entirely with SuperCollider since the early aughts. I think it still sounds pretty much like me, which might be an object lesson against mid-life crisis I’ve-always-wanted-one-of-those shopping. I can’t deny that twiddling the knobs has been fun, though, and it’s a really good fit with the melodic Shalmaneser identity.

Welcome to the recent past

As you may have noticed, the DP has been redesigned. I’ve tried to avoid whiz-bangery, but I’ve gathered up a lot of work that was previously flung far and wide, and added an RSS feed, so that you need never lack for news. I might even try to write a post once in a while. We’ll see.