Ben Farrell

Home Open Synth Platform. Imagine having all the sounds you ever dreamed of in the palm of your hand.

I DIY'ed a Zynthian build (zynthian.org). And in the process I learned to CNC. Here's my "CNC(ed) Music Factory". benfarrell.com/blog/2025-10...

04.10.2025 03:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yay! I can share an experiment we did at work. Like lots of folks, we're curious about MCP servers and how they change the way we interact with traditional applications. My colleague James and I did an After Effects experiment!

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13.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Playing a Note Sequence with Tone.js Creating digital hugs since the 20th century.

I've always loved Tone.js, but always used it very surface level (just playing notes in real-time). Wasn't expecting to have a hard time playing back a sequence of notes in a timeline, but I did, so I wrote something up when I was in a good place benfarrell.com/blog/2024-12...

02.12.2024 04:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Work summit winding down. Leaving for my flight soon. My major takeaway from talking to stakeholders around the company: Keytars are the future

22.11.2024 16:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sometimes I forget where I work, and while I'm at a "boring company off-site", we just got hit with the most amazing dose of weird, funny creativity. Needed that for sure!

19.11.2024 21:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I find myself on bluesky today reflecting on how when twitter got toxic, I backed off social media to get to know my IRL local art community. Great plan until I learned that I stumbled into something just as toxic. Yay me

18.11.2024 23:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lasers & Halftones Creating digital hugs since the 20th century.

Blogging again after all this time, because I keep forgetting what I do! Anyway, this time around, I added some features to a 2021 labs.adobe.com Halftone experiment to try my hand at creating some light boxes in the Sun Gallery makerspace
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20.09.2024 20:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've been thinking about this show and the music a lot lately, and just had to snap this up when I saw it

04.07.2023 05:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi. Will I ignore this as much as Mastadon? All signs point to yes. Oh, I'm sorry....Twitter's the place we're supposed to whine about social networks.

03.07.2023 04:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0