a personal note
I started experimenting with electronic music when I moved to Berlin in 1985 after finishing high school.
By attending Superbooth 2025, I found my way back into the world of electronic music after decades as a software developer, and discovered something new (to me): Eurorack modular synthesizers.
The fascination lies in the combination of electronics and software. You can generate sounds with analog components. You can develop firmware for microcontrollers, and you can combine both approaches.
Particularly interesting and useful is the modular design. You can create a small, dedicated module for each specific purpose and combine the modules into a — sometimes complex — larger whole. A principle that was fundamental and defining throughout my life as a software developer.
The emergence of artificial intelligence as a tool offers nearly unlimited possibilities and opens up an infinitely exciting field.
books and blogs
- Agentic Coding — Dual-repo concept with project and Zettelkasten
- Clean Fracanto — Clean Architecture principles in the fracanto framework
- Fracanto Architecture — 3-tier architecture of the fracanto framework
- Fracanto Vtable Pattern — The vtable design pattern in the fracanto framework
- Fracanto Dependency Injection — Dependency injection in the fracanto framework
- CV Input Signal Types — Eurorack CV input signal reference
- Watasoge Building Log — DIY synthesizer module build diary
- Kicking the CAN — CAN bus experiment with Agent Driven Development
- Pulser Building Log — DIY Eurorack clock module with RP2040
- Don Lancaster's Books — Classic electronics and TTL cookbook