now – Abulia

What I’m working on

(last update: 2025-03-15)

Settling into the row house in the Brewerytown neighborhood of Philadelphia that my wife and I bought in March 2025.
Also in March 2025: after 4 years away, rejoining my colleagues at Art+Logic Software Development, where I previously worked from 1997-2021. Looking forward to more years working with my friends there, but I don’t think I can manage another 24 years.
Continuing involvement with the MIDI Association, including as a member of its executive board and several of the working groups defining the new MIDI 2.0 standard.
Writing a suite for brass quintet
…thinking a lot about what ‘my music’ should be now, especially the relationship between how humans engage with computers to make music, and how to get around my bad habit of working on large personal software tools instead of just sitting down and writing/playing.
Rebuilding my trombone chops. (I played more or less daily for 15-16 years, from the ages of 9-25, then came to pretty much a dead stop for the next 26 years except for some sporadic attempts. Getting things back in shape is harder than I expected.)

Developing a modern C++ library/framework for MIDI 2.0.
A blank-page rewrite of my old MIDI 2.0 Scope app that was never released to the public, under a new name, incorporating everything I’ve learned about MIDI 2.0 (and changes to the spec documents since they were formally adopted)
My forever in-progress interactive music performance system — we’ll come back to this after my MIDI 2.0 tools are shippable

Other things that I should be working on