Canton Becker

After four straight weeks of digitizing cassettes, I'm pleased to release this memorial archive of the mix tapes made by Stephen Miller of Santa Fe (AKA MKZDK) who passed away in July 2018. cantonbecker.com/mkzdk

Risset Rhythm Explorer An auditory illusion where sampled loops speed up or slow down forever. Similar to a Shepard Tone, but for sampled audio and beats.

I made a tool/toy that lets you play audio loops that infinitely speed up or slow down.
cantonbecker.com/risset/

Terence McKenna: The Final Interview (1999) Restored audio and synchronized transcript of McKenna's final conversations in Hawaii. A meditation on death, the 'black hole of biology,' and the psychedelic experience.

Terence McKenna's final interview before he died. I cleaned up the audio and added a synchronized transcript. cantonbecker.com/mckenna-fina...

YouTube video by ME TA DA AT ESP32 303-inspired synth test 3000003

guess who's getting 106fps on an I2C OLED1309 powered by an ESP32 comfortably running on one core, while the other core is dedicated to being a 303-inspired synth at 192KHz???

youtu.be/p6L_Nz_WA7g

👉THIS GUY👈

I'm gonna count the 128x64 GUI as for #GENUARY4 "Low res" 😁 #genuary2026 #genuary

Thank you especially for "What is tear gas for? It is for inciting riots. How did people go out and get gas masks? They ordered them online, because they do not want to riot."

Acid Hit (2024) A generative music and algorithmic visual installation by Canton Becker and Jeffrey Ventrella. This work is fully self-contained, with a built-in micro projector…

Superb!!! Love the sound of the filters and graphical view of the glides. I would love to assemble one of these if you ever share the details. Related vimeo.com/1026196311

2) Tomorrow Comes The Harvest: Evolution
Remember that 1976 guitar-violin-tabla album "Shakti w/John McLaughlin"? This similarly ecstatic jam is led by Jeff Mills, the undisputed godfather of Detroit techno. 100% improvised, it straddles techno, ecstatic Indian drumming and jazz. Real afro-futurism.

Chain of Light Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · Album · 2024 · 4 songs

1) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Chain of Light
A *new* album released 27 years after Nusrat's death. Peter Gabriel had it mothballed at Real World Studios session in the 90’s, when Nusrat was in his prime. It’s full-throated and glorious – not at all an album of “leftovers” like most post-mortem releases.

Two Album Covers

Here are two music recommendations I just shared with a dear friend. This has been important to me lately as I've decided to begin every day by filling my ears with music instead of journalists like Steve Inskeep who sound increasingly depressed: 🧵

Ooooooh that's super weird I like it. Especially the selective color, only coming from the devices...

I'd like to see what it would picture as "opposite you" too.

As a fellow algorithmic music maker and jellyfish obsessive, in love with this. Just purchased for OS X, a bargain on steam. Downloading now.

I really like the curviness.

"Acid Hit" is a generative music and algorithmic visual installation by Canton Becker with visuals by Jeffrey Ventrella. This work is fully self-contained, with a built-in micro projector and sound system with subbass. This sound installation celebrates the Roland TB-303 Bass Line synthesizer.