The Living Archive
Tools for one person, experiments for an ongoing practice.
A working repository of standalone digital instruments, sound utilities, and creative experiments built in response to immediate friction in my own music-making and media practice. Unlike the enterprise platforms in Flagship Work, these are lightweight, tactile tools designed around a single creative ritual: reducing choice, speeding up sampling, and turning passive media into playable material.
CueTube Pad Surface & Player
Turning YouTube timestamps into playable instrument pads
CueTube
iPad-First YouTube Sampling Instrument & Playable Pad Surface
I often find useful phrases, textures, and sounds inside YouTube videos, but the path from discovery to performance required several clumsy steps: downloading media, trimming it, importing it into a DAW, and mapping it. I wanted a lightweight way to stay close to the source video while treating selected moments as immediate musical material on an iPad.
The core interaction transforms a timestamp into a pad. The user scrubs to an interesting moment, hits capture, and that exact timestamp becomes a triggerable pad with touch and keyboard mapping. Performance Mode strips away editing controls so the surface acts like an instrument rather than a configuration screen.
- Direct YouTube playback and frame-accurate timestamp scrubbing
- Instant capture of video moments into color-coded performance pads
- Touch-first iPad responsiveness and desktop keyboard hotkey triggers
- Performance Mode separating preparation from live playing
- Local session persistence with JSON cue-sheet import/export
Kit Roulette Vintage Interface
Dial-centered drum generation with 1970s hardware cues
Kit Roulette
Tactile Hardware-Inspired Drum-Kit Generator
A massive local sample library feels like abundance, but it can quickly become creative friction. Auditioning hundreds of nearly identical snares exhausts momentum before the music even begins. I wanted a tool that would introduce intentional surprise: make a fast initial selection from my own library and move me into making.
The defining interaction is the spin. Rather than clicking a flat 'randomize' button, generation is centered around a large mechanical dial with vintage woodgrain, brushed aluminum, and tactile haptics. The system picks a balanced drum kit from local files and packages it as an immediate ZIP download.
- Local sample folder ingest without uploading to remote servers
- Vintage 1970s hardware aesthetic with central rotary dial control
- Constrained randomness assembling balanced percussive combinations
- Instant auditioning, individual sound rerolling, and lock states
- Automated ZIP packaging for immediate import into hardware samplers
Sample Splicer Waveform Chain
Sequencing ordered one-shots with adjustable silence padding
Sample Splicer
Sequential One-Shot Audio Stitcher & Silence-Gap Formatter
Preparing sample chains for hardware samplers like the SP-404, Octatrack, or modern software slicers normally requires dragging dozens of one-shot WAVs onto separate tracks in a DAW, manually spacing them out, and bouncing a master file. It is tedious busywork that interrupts flow.
Drag a batch of one-shot files into the browser, reorder them visually along the sequence line, dial in the exact silence padding in milliseconds, and export a single stitched master WAV file ready for hardware chopping.
- Zero-server, 100% in-browser audio buffer concatenation
- Visual drag-and-drop reordering of sample chains
- Adjustable millisecond silence spacing between transients
- Real-time waveform preview of the assembled audio file
- Instant lossless 24-bit/16-bit WAV file generation
Inspect the Physical Archive Binder in the 3D Workbench
Prefer a tactile, spatial exploration? You can inspect these exact instrument spec sheets inside the 3D Workbench scene. Click on the archival box sitting on the workbench desk to watch the physical cards fan out and inspect them up close with interactive mouse tilt.