Electronic Metal & Chapman Stick

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A collection of blog posts about music, technology, and other topics that interest me.

Kids these days … why aren’t they into music?

10/23/2025

Why kids aren't interested in music, and the experiment I made to change that with my kid
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The underwhelming explosion of live music streaming

4/14/2020

An opinion piece on the pandemic's live music streaming trend, and why it quickly died
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Poisoned Bread

2/20/2020

A post about Facundo Cabral's idea of joyless work and its fruit, poisoned bread
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Music creators don’t need masters

1/5/2020

An encouragement for musicians to not follow schools, teachers and masters
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Why I Ditched Wordpress to Save My Music Release and What I Did After

10/20/2019

The story of how my hacked wordpress site led me to build this website, and the tools I used
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The truth in conspiracy theories

6/23/2023

A post that explores the idea of conspiracy theories not as lies, but as reflection of what people want the world to be to hold their beliefs
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Disrupting subjectivity — How tech, true art, and politics challenge social norms

4/2/2018

How art actually changes the world
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Why are so many coders musicians? Part 3

3/6/2018

Third part of a series of posts exploring the overlap between programmer and musicians. This third piece explores the craft mastery (virtuosism) and collaborative dimensions of both disciplines
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Why are so many coders musicians? Part 2

2/25/2018

Second part of a series of posts exploring the overlap between programmer and musicians. This second piece explores the shared trait of music and code as abstractions that are materialized into material experiences
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Why are so many coders musicians?

2/23/2018

First part of a series of posts exploring the overlap between programmer and musicians. This first piece explores the common trait of long-term commitment to learning
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