Touching up other projects this week (waiting for mastering...)

As I wait to get my album back from the mastering engineer, I've had some time this week to work on some side-projects that may someday become elements of a live show! I spent a few months earlier this year working on a way to use CV signals to control a series of motorized devices. The project is going well, and I hope to have more detailed updates available on my Patreon soon! There are a lot of moving parts, and it has involved learning lots of new technical skills and applications.

As a carried my box of parts over to my desk this morning, it dawned on me- A person like me would never be able to work on a project like this in any other place or time. I have no idea where or how I would be able to relatively quickly get very specific electronic components without a resource like Amazon. I've also been frequently using Chat GPT3 to help answer some niche electronics and programming questions as they come up... I know there are probably other ways I could get this information, but it would be nowhere near as fast or convenient for a random artist in the middle of Ohio to work on a project like this without things Amazon or AI research assistant programs like Chat GPT.

Part of me thinks these are the conditions for creating something genuinely new. Ideas don't happen in a vacuum. New things get made when the conditions in the world are right for someone to make them. Everything has to be set up so that someone can connect the dots, see the need- then have access to the tools and information to make it a reality. I'm pretty excited about this project, and I think it has a lot of potential. I have not been able to find anything like this out there, and it's something I really want to see exist in the world of electronic music. If you want to know more, subscribe to my Patreon for access to QUIVER updates! I've been documenting my progress daily, and I'm working on finding better ways to share everything so that it's digestible and interesting to read 😁 Check it out! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=91562271