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Updated March 2026, from Barreiro, Portugal.

Projects

Chaos Conductor

My main instrument — a live performance system I designed in Max/MSP, now being ported to JUCE/C++. It's based on the fuzziness principle. I'm submitting a paper about it to SMC 2026 (Sound and Music Computing), titled "Building a Music Performance Software for a Wandering Mind and Clumsy Hands."

Barreiro Improvised

A grant-funded project (OUT.RA 2024) exploring Barreiro's soundscape through live improvised performance. Field recordings from the city become the raw material. Performed at AMAC and broadcast on Radiophrenia.

Hibikidō

A semantic search system for audio. A personal research tool for navigating large collections of field recordings and samples using words. It could become part of the Chaos Conductor.

Esperluette

I created the new jingle for my sister's podcast, Esperluette. After more than 200 episodes, Marie-Cécile wanted something that embodied her switch to a broader theme of daily anthropology.

Inspiration

I've been reading about software instrument design, accessibility, mediation and skill development. Daniel Kahneman's work on skill acquisition has been particularly useful.

In My Mind

The design and writing of my partner's massage clinic website, Raiz de Luz
Claude Code integration with my Obsidian vault (semantic search, review and synthesis) — using the power of Claude to leverage connections between ideas. Scavenged from Claudesidian and evolved for the fuzzy mind.
Practice with the new interface of the Chaos Conductor
Career transition from technical translation to inventing on principle. My principle is human fuzziness.

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