Seattle, WA show Aug 8th
Hey all. No new synthesis blog posts since I've been mostly grinding on music, with at least two projects releasing this year. The only update I have for is for the oscillator-heads: I found a new nonstandard oscillator paper, called "Spatial Matrix Synthesis." The nonstandard oscillators article has been updated accordingly. I will return to DSP writing in due course (got a few things in the pipeline!).
I'm playing in Seattle, WA, USA on Aug 8th, my first show outside of California, with MouseMan and Environmental Studies for the Wayward Music Series.
Wayward Music SeriesEnvironmental Studies + Nathan Ho + MouseMan - Wayward Music Series | August 8, 2025
Environmental Studies is a group of Los Angeles musicians that blends unusual electronics, left-field rhythms, and warped brass instruments. Their newest record, Planet!, will be released on August 1st on their label Drifting Boat. Nathan Ho is a Bay Area-based electronic musician combining contemporary classical music with brutal, percussive sound design drawing from breakcore, glitch, and bass music. His debut ... Read More →
On my YouTube channel, I made a 3 1/2-minute track imitating the style of Venetian Snares' Traditional Synthesizer Music and recorded the entire process of making it. I've put up the full 4.5 hours of footage where I made this track in SuperCollider, if that's your thing, and here's the final result.
Nathan