Refined the Kulintang Pd patch a bit. Incorporated a 0th order Bessel function as a vibrato model (Used the power series, because Pd doesn't support differential equations.) Anyway, sounds great! Plays the jingle whenever a show in Abelardo Hall starts.

This is a Pd patch I made based on the Kulintang, a bossed gong instrument from Maguindanao, a province in the southern Philippines. I used a 3-bit number for the ictus (beat 1 is always on) and a 12-bit one for the subdivisions to create weighted and random rhythms idiomatic for Kulintang playing.

My album "The Mock Orchestra" is now available for streaming on Spotify, YouTube Music and other platforms! Don't have a subscription or don't want to support streaming platforms? The album is also available on the MusiKolektibo Bandcamp page! musikolektibo.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo... #newalbum

man I love pd

Spotted on my way back. Hmm…?

Sneak preview of all five tracks in my latest album "The Mock Orchestra." Check out the album's Bandcamp page for more details! musikolektibo.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo... #music #newalbum #mockorch

DSP deliveries confirmed and pre-orders are live... it's happening! A two-year labor of love will finally come out next month, Feb. 7, 2026! I really hope that anyone who's even a bit curious will gander a listen. #newalbum #musikolektibo #mockorch

Ah, Jollibee. The taste of their cornstarch chicken almost masks the sick I feel from their numerous labor code violations. Well… *almost.*

I have a new album coming next year, Feb. 7 "The Mock Orchestra." Two years in the making, realized through a hybrid of computer mockups and real performances. Because hiring a full orchestra is too damn expensive. Bandcamp link for pre-orders! musikolektibo.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo... #newalbum

mmm chicken feet

Please don't offload the compositional process to AI, please. Not a lot of people know this, but the greatest thing a composer could feel while writing is to have things click in place after days, weeks or even months of stuff that doesn't stick. AI takes away that friction and that joy.

Ezra Klein is the Tommy Wiseau of Journalism.

How Americans fight fires, according to DHS: Firefighter: Are you an arsonist, ma’am? Lady: No, I’m just lighting a cig- *Bombards the woman with a fire extinguisher.*

I am so, so mature…

Passed by the Windows XP hill in Sonoma Valley.

BIG CRAB!!!

Happening tonight!

A piece of mine will be performed by Ensemble Dal Niente. Friday, June 6, 2025 @ Qualcomm Institute! qi.ucsd.edu/events/ideas...

Seth Cluett and his snare drum

Spot the loons…

First few days in San Diego.

Hello blue sky!

"OK, Devious, don't move!"

If you’re starting to think that the wannabe strongmen of the world has everyone by the balls, just remember that the once-untouchable Duterte is now in jail for crimes against humanity. If a back-assward nation like the Philippines can do it, then so can you! www.rappler.com/philippines/...

Look what I found at the bookstore…

Queen.

NEW WORK!! I've finished my new choral piece "Demain dès l'aube" (Tomorrow at Dawn) based on the Victor Hugo poem. For SATB, with a2 divisi parts. Duration c.a. 8 mins. Difficulty - Upper Intermediate to Advanced. First two pages below. #music #composition #choir

*surprised cat face*

Six years ago today, the Institute for Composer Diversity was launched, and in celebration of its birthday, we're (finally) launching our Chamber Database! 16K+ total works with 9K+ by women composers and 8.7K+ by composers of color and searchable by over 200 instruments…Enjoy!

...then what's the POINT of a guitar store? (Apart from the obvious answer, of course)

Could I interest you guys to a pair of Boston Kremes? (Piano for scale)

I'm going to spend some time in the US this spring as a foreign scholar and artist-in-residence. I was screened. I was invited. And I am looking forward to getting to know my peers and doing all kinds of music stuff in an environment that supposedly welcomed me. So why do I feel so threatened?

Over the last few months I've been writing my new composition in a bifurcated way. The two sides of the work are already fleshed out, and the only thing that's left is to fix the "wonky bass line bridge" that I've hastily written in between... and it's the most difficult part! #music #composition

Smokin' some meats.

Last working day of the year is done bay-beh! Time to party!! 🎉

Please, please... if you're a DIY classical label, consider having direct physical distribution as the core of your product strategy other than relying on DSPs alone. Even if I'm (technically) part of the problem, I'm still not happy with this development at all. #music

Gonna spend the holidays composing. Upon opening a .sib file for a piece which has been in stasis for a couple of years, I stumbled upon this little piece of slam poetry, haha. #music #composing

1st xmas choir set done! Lunch time before going to the next church. (And eating again, lol!) #xmas-gigs #conducting #music

We have new works! Come check it out! #music

The People's Avant-Garde w/ MusiKolektibo episode now on SoundCloud! A showcase of experimental / musique concrete works of Filipino composers Dominic Laxamana, Joshua Ansale, and Juro Kim Feliz. Listen here: soundcloud.com/hkcrlive/the...

It's kinda surreal to see the two highest-elected officials in the land literally at each other's throats. And this ain't the "...oh, you actually mean figuratively" type of literally, it's the "holy shit, people are actually going to die" type of literally.

As someone who lives in the path of these things: Yes, it is as terrible as it sounds.

#composers #musicians To graphic notation, or not to graphic notation? That is the question.

When someone with an MMus/DMA/Music PhD says that they're going to join a "young composers'" competition.

MusiKolektibo will be live from HKCR this Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 9 PM CST! (GMT-6) Featuring: Dominic Laxamana, Joshua Ansale, and Juro Kim Feliz. In collaboration: poet Frank Aguilar, violinist Ramon Alfonso Soberano, composer Marie-Luise Calvero, and writer Riley Palanca. hkcr.live/shows/the-pe...

"The "Tear Gun," invented by Taiwanese artist Yi-Fei Chen, is designed to collect tears, freeze them, and shoot them back at the person who made you cry." Sick AF! www.facebook.com/share/p/1H7v...

Ah yes, don't forget to pick up your complimentary spaghetti chickenjoy on your way out of the airport too.

The night our own VP lost the Philippine elections in 2022, I listened to this beautiful piece of music practically non-stop. If you're really struggling right now, please take some time to be lost in Messiaen's singular sliver of "eternity". www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkwB...

What a time to share this beautiful piece. The styles presented in each variation are as disparate and diverse as those hemmed in the world's rich social tapestry - yet all bring forward the same, inexorable theme which represents the very best in all of us, collectively. #music #classical-music