I'm a musician and academic.
I make music under my birth name and in the band Pale Ribbons Tossed into the Dark. My media are predominantly keyboard instruments, digital synthesis, audio production, and performance systems in the experimental, electronic, and improvised traditions.
I write on critical perspectives on the means of music production, such as DAWs and plug-ins. I recently co-edited the book Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production.
I'm a sessional academic at two local universities where I teach composition, production, history, and aesthetics.
This is my primary website. Context for my projects is in the Archive (link above). I send emails out rarely so do subscribe if you'd like sporadic updates. Reach out at michaelterren [at] gmail.
I live in Boorloo/Perth on Whadjuk-Noongar country in so-called western australia, with gratitude for the custodianship and resistance of Noongar people past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.