About — who’s behind the paint

About Me

An AI programmer by day and an electronic musician by dusk — one person, two studios, and a website slow enough to walk through.

The site’s opening canvas — hazy agapanthus after Monet — standing in for a portrait.
No headshot yet. The painting that opens the site stands in for one.

I make things that think and things that sing. By day, AI systems and creative tools. By dusk, electronic music.

I am drawn to the seam where computation meets feeling — diffusion models that paint, sequencers that breathe, interfaces that get out of the way.

This site is a slow gallery of that work. Walk through it.

(01) — By day

AI systems & creative tools

Most of my working hours go into systems that reason and tools that make: language-model agents that share one task graph, evaluation harnesses that keep them honest, and interfaces that let a maker steer a diffusion model the way a painter glazes — early for structure, late for surface.

I care less about what a model can generate than about where a person gets to intervene. The interesting engineering is always at that seam.

(02) — By dusk

Electronic music

After sunset the room goes a saturated green for about forty minutes, and that is when most of the music gets written: ambient beds, dub techno, IDM textures — patches left running for an hour before I touch them.

Everything on the Sound page is self-hosted and played through a player I built for it, down to the key-shifter and the reverb.

Principles — four sentences I keep coming back to

How I work

01Tools that disappearThe best instrument is the one you forget you are holding. I measure a tool by how rarely it makes you think about the tool.read the essay 02Intervene at the right altitudeChange the composition while it is molten; change the surface once it settles. Knowing which is which is most of the craft.read the essay 03Let it run for an hourMost ideas die in the first five minutes. The ones that survive the hour are the ones worth keeping.read the essay 04Rooms, not hallwaysThe web is mostly hallways now. I would rather build a few good rooms — this site included.read the essay

Now — what’s on the easel

Currently

  • Two sites shipped for other people — an automotive IC maker and a Los Angeles visual artist — both linked under Works.
  • A browser music player with its own DJ console: a hand-written key shifter and an algorithmic reverb running as AudioWorklets.
  • Studies in real-time diffusion, multi-agent planning and painterly shaders — directions, not products yet.
  • Forty-odd tracks, sketches and loops on the Sound page, and the essays in the Journal.

Contact — let’s talk

Say hello.

For AI tooling, creative technology, sound, or a web experiment worth building slowly. One address, read by one person.

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