Audio & acoustics

Series

Plucked, Struck, BlownThree musical instruments built from physics instead of samples: a wire, a bar, and a pipe in ~60 lines of Faust each, compiled to WebAssembly small enough to hand to a browser, then reverse-engineered by gradient descent.

Plates

PLATE 012025

PurpleBrain

A real-time pipeline that turns raw EEG into FM synthesis — brain activity driving sound with low enough latency to feel immediate.

EngineerMax/MSP · DSP · Real-time audio

PLATE 032026

Plucked, Struck, Blown

Three physical-modeling instruments in ~60 lines of Faust each, compiled to 9 KB AudioWorklet WASM, performed offline into a sound gallery, and reverse-engineered by batched gradient descent on a 5090.

EverythingFaust · WebAssembly · AudioWorklet

Field notes

№10Fitting a bell with four thousand guessesaudio · ai · pytorchJul 11, 20268 min №09The whole instrument is nine kilobytesaudio · wasm · faustJul 10, 20264 min №08Three instruments in sixty lines eachaudio · dsp · faustJul 09, 20267 min