Chris Beckstrom
I make music, art, code, synthesizers, and love computers. At work I’m a sysadmin.
This is my really weird website where I share stuff mostly related to those topics.
I also care about social justice, mental health, and seizing the means of production.
Newest stuff
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Septembeat 18
You’ve heard of boom bap and maybe mod bap, but have you heard of boom zap?
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“Dad I almost match your old 90’s keyboard”
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John Ham
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Here’s a CB sampler mixtape
why does this website look so weird? It’s on purpose! I wanted to make a unique website radically different from most websites you probably visit. I’m a fan of brutalist and retro design, which has influenced things like multiple fonts and tiled backgrounds. More about this site here
Some MORE recent posts
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Septembeat 17
This one is fairly intense! I wrote simpler Tidalcycles code than usual and used lots of spectral processing in Pure Data to get weird sounds
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Went to a bowling alley the other day and it was the most sensory overload I’ve had in a while.
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Septembeat 15
Super glitch. Mega glitch. Hyperglitch? Hip-hop? I created the overall sound in Tidalcycles, recorded it into Reaper, then used extensive automation, time stretching, and effects to glitch it…
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Septembeat 14
Extra glitching on this one! This uses many of the glitches samples I created yesterday
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Septembeat 13
Making some glitches today, and if you want you can download the free sample pack with 122 glitchy sounds
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Ruby says “Dad what the heck even is this thing? Is it ok if I bite all of the patch cables?”
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Ђᕋ୭ᏅΞ☳⋰⋚ᨓ⋚ᏪᏅᏪᎹ
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Chocolate and peanut butter, TR-909 and TR-303, cats and synthesizers. A classic combination
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Have you ever been jamming on your musical instrument so hard smoke starts coming out of it?
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Septembeat 11
This code is just at the edge of what my laptop can handle. Perhaps I need to adjust some settings. And/or embrace the glitch
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My daughter’s favorite part of the grocery store: “The Machines.” If she has quarters they are going in
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