Very excited to announce my first Creative Coding for Musicians workshop!!! Have you ever been code curious? Had an idea for an app that combines sound, visuals, and interactivity? Want to play with new media expression?
Music and code are flip sides of my creative practice and I'm so glad to get a chance to share both with all of you. Slides 2-4 are examples of some explorations I've built using code.
Capacity is very limited so PLEASE sign up in advance. This is an in-person only experience at @src__nyc in Brooklyn. No previous coding experience necessary. We'll be starting from scratch using P5 and Tone.js and building a very simple browser-based interactive instrument.
Tue, Apr 14, 2026
7:00–9:30pm
RSVP link in @musiciancoder bio!
🎨: @mattbrobowe
🚨DONUTS 20 🚨 So excited to announce this secret project is here. To celebrate J. Dilla's magnum opus on its 20th anniversary, I built a little interactive Donuts sample explorer!
Those of you who know me know how much Dilla's music means to me. The past few years I've been doing a lot of reflec#ting on my path and how I want to contribute. I feel like all my passions and gifts are starting to converge and I see a role for myself as curator, archivist, educator, DJ, remixer, technologist, producer, and musician. All these different streams are merging and overlapping and I see them all as different expressions of the same journey.
Please join me in exploring the genius of J. Dilla at the DONUTS 20 experience, which you can link directly from my bio. So much love đź–¤
Many thanks to @3d.dora for the lovely 3D modeling.
Concepting, design, and dev by yours truly.
#jdilla #donuts #webapp #webart
It's been a year! Was super fun and meaningful looking back on the last 12 months to make this reel. I'm so grateful to all the friends new and old whose orbits intersected with mine this year. It was a period of great change, growth, exploration and reconfiguration for me. Onward to 2026! ✨
SHANGHAI!!! Very excited to announce that my interactive audio/visual piece "Enchanted Fractal Forest" is being shown at the West Bund Art & Design Education fair as part of CURRENTS, a collection of NYU student and alumni work. This weekend, 10/31 to 11/2. See flyer for details. Please go and experience it along with some amazing other work from my friends and colleagues!! 🌱🎶✨
上海 @imalowres.nyu@nyushanghai
flyer design: @mattbrobowe
A couple months late but I couldn’t let the fall season get going without acknowledging a huge milestone that passed for me this summer. Back in June I had the honor and privilege of being awarded a Master of Arts degree in Interactive Media Arts, from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. (What is Interactive Media Arts you may ask??… 🤔🤔🤔). I capped off the Low-Residency program with an incredible 6-week intensive session in Shanghai, and presented my thesis “Lumen Player: Building a New Music Ecosystem for Intentional Listening”. So much to say but for now I just want to send my infinite gratitude to my unforgettable teachers, residents, administrators, and peers in the Edamame cohort, and everyone else I’ve met along the way. Thank you for being so inspiring and encouraging. This journey has unlocked so many doors for me that I didn’t even know existed. Much more to come…!
“In a world that asks us to speed up and give up our agency at every scroll and swipe, I hope this project has helped some of you to slow down, just for a moment, and listen with intention.”
Still processing my Shanghai experience but I wanted to share a few moments from my time there in May and June.
Even when I was pretty busy as a touring musician, I usually would spend no more than 24 hours in a city, so being able to live in a new place for six weeks was a new and exciting experience for me. The language barrier was rough — being such a talkative guy, I was pretty humbled to not be able to communicate. It forced me to do a lot of listening and observing, and in some ways, it was freeing to not feel the need to fill up all space with my own babble all the time. Still, I did manage to be able to place my coffee and bakery order in Mandarin by the end.
I had so many unforgettable experiences in China and I feel that I didn’t even scratch the surface of what Shanghai has to offer, much less the vast entirety of the nation. As always, travel lets you experience your own hometown and country from a new perspective and forces you to confront your own habits and ways of living. I saw so much beauty and inspiration in China, and I can’t wait to go back.
Big thanks to @imalowres.nyu for this incredible opportunity and the entire Edamame cohort for the memories. I’ll be sharing more about my masters journey soon!
This is it!!! The last hurrah of my @imalowres.nyu path. IMA Low-Res Thesis '25 Show tomorrow (Thu) and Fri in Shanghai. I will be showing Lumen Player v2 (the slightly less janky prototype) along with the thesis projects of the rest of my incredibly talented Edamame cohort. Come get a new perspective on music listening.🫛🫛🫛
What an amazing experience to showcase my thesis project « The Lumen Player » at the ITP show last week! This is the culmination of a dream I had many years ago — a curiosity about how to bring back the tactile experience of physical media into the world of digital audio, and a view into a speculative future where musicians have a new viable means to fund their work. (It was also a great excuse for me to play art director, A&R, bookbinder, industrial designer, and embedded systems software engineer for a few months 🙂)
It was so cool seeing all you beautiful people try out the system and get so much valuable insight and feedback. It seems like Lumen really connected with you all. It even connected some of you TO each other, as I saw at least one pair of strangers exchange info (via NFC no less) after listening together! The Lumen Player is a new music platform/format combining artist album booklets with a standalone digital audio player and colorful visualizer. The album booklets contain NFC technology — simply tapping the booklet on the player unlocks the audio playback.
Immense thanks to the three musicians who trusted me to include their music in the first demo installation — @mae.sun.music , @alexasher7 and @djrdrums — your beautiful sounds were a huge part of what made the project work and feel coherent. Thanks also to the graphic artists and photographers who contributed as well (@birgitbuchart , @swollen_ankle , @yinshadowz , @girl.named.alex , and @phillipangert ).
So much gratitude to my thesis advisor @rothbergrothberg and mentor @austinrobey_ as well as all my early testers and everyone who allowed me to bounce ideas off you (too many to list!). Special thanks to shop staff Phil Caridi and @_ian.cox_ for all the technical assistance — I would not have been able to manage the build without you!
Can't wait to see where this project goes next! 🌸
@itp_nyu@imalowres.nyu
đź“·: @rayrayrule@dejareverie
I wrote a thing for the latest edition of @adjacent.itp ! Adjacent is the journal of emerging culture published by students at @itp_nyu .
The last time anything I wrote was published was ... a long time ago. I'm so glad I got the chance to share some thoughts about sampling and the creative process. This essay is based on a talk I gave a couple times last year at @imalowres.nyu and @ecsuvikings . Excited to keep developing and expanding on this topic.
« The Lumen Player » installation view. If you're in NYC, you have two chances to see it in person! Today (Sun) 2–6pm & tomorrow (Mon). Link in bio
Engage in a slower, more intentional listening experience with a speculative new music format. The Lumen Player combines beautifully designed album booklets with a screen-free hardware audio player and colorful visualizer.
Participating artists:
Alex Asher @alexasher7
MAE.SUN @mae.sun.music
ESTRATOS @djrdrums@itp_nyu@itpandfriends@imalowres.nyu
