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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Happy Caturday!
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We went to a corn maze today
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“Yes Dad, I’m in a box. I fits, I sits.”
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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 24
Here’s my 24th track for Septembeat. This time the glitches are a little more subtle.There’s even a little bit of a melody!
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Septembeat 22
Keeping the hip-hop + glitch theme, here’s another boom zap track. The 22nd track I’ve made this month for Septembeat
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Facebook doesn’t like my blog
Seems like Facebook isn’t a fan of sharing links that go to my blog. Either that or it’s offended by boom zap.
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Earth Wind and Fire day!!
The day is finally here. To celebrate, listen to my chiptune arrangement of “September”! https://chrisbeckstrom.bandcamp.com/track/5ept3mber POWER-UP! by Chris Beckstrom
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Septembeat 19
“Now that’s what I call boom-zap!” I love hip-hop. I love boom-bap hip-hop. I love glitchy electronic stuff. I haven’t heard a ton of music that puts those…
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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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