In Part 1, I went through some of the background that lead Émilie Gillet and I to search for solutions to improve the usability of Mutable Instruments’ modules for people with colour blindness. Let’s now see what solutions we considered, tested and eventually implemented, both to improve older modules and to design new ones. Initially, [...]

I’m definitely stating the obvious when I say that we all see colours differently. Who’s never gotten into a discussion about a certain hue being more red or more purple? More blue or more green? Mostly this is due to environmental and psychological factors, but for some people the retina will not pick up certain []

Heres a new one from my Intervallo series. A snippet from a track in the making.

Heres a new one from my Intervallo series. A snippet from a track in the making.

In the 80s, when I was a kid, we used to have this thing on TV called intervallo. It mostly consisted in slow, soothing music over photos of pictoresque Italian locations.

Heres an example:

Recently I decided to reinterpret – somehow turning it upside down – this concept using pieces of music from my Kurodama project. This is mostly to create an outlet for my musical sketches and bits of footage that I record here and there. These videos will all be roughly 1min long, which is an interesting length for quick experiments and prevents me from getting lost in the minutiae that come with making longer tracks.

In the 80s, when I was a kid, we used to have this thing on TV called intervallo. It mostly consisted in slow, soothing music over photos of pictoresque Italian locations. Heres an example: Recently I decided to reinterpret – somehow turning it upside down – this concept using pieces of music from my Kurodama [...]

Even if this blog is mostly about making electronic music with things that you can use IRL, todays issue of Blinking Lights is all about software modulars, which you maybe havent heard of yet. Most well-known software modulars, like VCV rack or Softube Modular, rely heavily on the skeumorphic representation of hardware. [...]

Recently – through a discussion on the online forum llllllll – I found out about various appearances of modular synths in adverts for Swedish furniture company Ikea. Credit go to users xmacex and Knivtid, who provided the photos and most of the intel. Now, this is interesting for various reasons. Its a clear sign that []

I was recently inerviewed by the Synthux Academy podcast about my work as a Eurorack Frontpanel Interface Designer. If listening to me rambling for an hour about frontpanels, interface design and how we created the front-facing part of Mutable Instruments Beads and Hexinverters Minphaser, sounds intriguing to you, then [...]

Why Blog? Marc Weidenbaum has a good answer to that. Also Ill try to follow his suggestion and post a bit more often. Lets see how that goes. If youre somebody who posts regularly on social media, but feels kind of weird about it, give the article below a read, its full of interesting thoughts []

Updates on my own projects have been piling up over the last few weeks. So this edition of Blinking Lights is selfishly all about me. Ambient Nuggets #4: Kurodama Benjamin Mauch by Purlieu Recordings The biggest news is definitely this split release with Benjamin Mauch. Im a big fan of his work, and have []

A long time ago I made this drawing for Marc Weidenbaums excellend blog disquiet.com. It was for a series he was doing called Sketches of Sound (hence the title of this post), where he was inviting illustrators to sketch something sound-related. Every year I try to do something called inktober. The idea [...]