I am preparing a bass synthesizer for a new eerie electronic project. The project is still in an early stage and things are in flux, but watching people with eurorack hardware on YouTube made me want to patch together my own instrument. Unfortunately, I am not in a place where I can afford to get addicted to eurocrack and go to software that I own instead.

At the foot of the Jura mountains, I was thinking a lot about how things sound. I am a Software Developer, Physicist and Musician and will probably always go between these fields. But this also leads to ever-changing pet projects and I felt a need for cohesion and convergence between them. This is why I decided to look for an umbrella that groups all of these projects together, such that every new project finds a place under it.

How many open source audio projects are out there? Let us take a minute to get an overview of the open source audio software and hardware communities.

In the IndieMusicFeedback genrespin game you spin a wheel, get a genre, and try your best to produce a new song of that genre. The last time I played, I rolled Synthrock. Without knowing too much about the genre, I went and made a bass-heavy rock ballad with all but perfect vocals. This is a good time to take a close look at the production and see what I want to do better with my next song.