Name baby Gold!

Push the button, receive a modern baby name for li'l Gold.  Gotta be unique yet mainstream as outlined here:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/america-why-are-you-all-naming-all-your-boys-like-this-1561328070

Since middle names don't really matter and should be potentially embarrassing, they all come from Star Wars.

Through the cracks...

I found a couple of instrumental tracks that I had recorded over the last month or two but had failed to post.  They're weird, y'all, but you've probably come to expect that from OFDM.

Here's an electronic misrepresentation of "Do, Re, Mi" from The Sound of Music.




And the delicately named "Dismemberment No. 1 in b minor":

Live music!

I'm blessed to go to church with a bunch of musically talented people.  We put together a concert of American folk, jazz, and theater music for the community last week and people actually came!  And had fun!  Here are a couple of recordings from the night.  Mallory Nuzman's singing with Jenny Webb on piano, John Brady on bass, and myself on guitar.



I got to do a solo piece on guitar as well:



The rest of the excellent performances from the evening are here.  Sharing music online is fun, but live music is a blast!

Two wrongs make a wronger wrong

I was dismayed a few months ago to find that no one had yet made a Christopher Cross/Kriss Kross mashup.  Surely 1980's adult contemporary music and 1990's kid-rap could be blended together to make something horrific and hilarious, right?  So, I assumed the responsibility as a netizen of Interwebtopia to make an unnatural combination of Cross' "Sailing" with Kriss Kross' "Jump":

Deface

Marcel Duchamp decided in 1919 that ruining other people's art can be art too:

Tonight I broke in a new synthesizer module I make a couple of days ago by using it to abuse a lovely Brazilian folk song performed by Luciana Souza:

Bite-sized

Here's a little bluesy morsel of audible junk food.  I had fun playing for a bit the other night on the Hammond organ, guitar, drums, and synthesizer.

For those of you with more appetite, feel free to check out a recording from a trio that I recently played in with my friends Scott and Kim Ripplinger:

A bunch of other great recordings from church buddies who played in that same concert are here.

AAAAHHHH MAKE IT STOP

I've finally designed and built a couple of modules for my synthesizer using the front panels and strip boards that I custom ordered a few months ago.  Aaaaand they sound....absolutely horrifying!  Better than I had hoped!  Here's a video of me attacking my laptop's microphone with my 40-year-old synthesizer with the new modules:


I suggest hiding your laptop in a family member's room with this video playing on repeat.

Eventually I'll get around to posting the schematics and firmware on github so that other weirdos can build this stuff if they like.  Currently I've built a dual voltage controlled low frequency oscillator (VCLFO) and a dual envelope generator.