stephband @stephen.band · 01/05/2026I've been rebuilding Druimnashallag for Scotland's Mountain Bothy Association. 010 1
stephband @stephen.band · 24/02/2026What are the chords you need under your fingertips most often when writing parts? Any missing from this list? 010 1
stephband @stephen.band · 08/02/2026Played my first proper gig as a drummer tonight. Me vs. eleven trombones and two sousaphones. Nailed it. More or less. 110 1
stephband @stephen.band · 09/01/2026My toilet has a UX problem that trumps me consistently: a split button for big flush / small flush, but it's the bigger half that causes the smaller flush, and I CANNOT get my brain to hit the right one. 010 1
stephband @stephen.band · 24/09/2025I've been working on tuplet detection and rendering in Scribe (my HTML/CSS music notation lib). It's not an easy problem to nail, but I'm starting to be happy with the results. Scribe is nearly capable of rendering a decent lead sheet. You can see some early examples here: the-dots.app 030 3
stephband @stephen.band · 26/05/2025I was lucky enough to return to Geldingadalur one year later, the crater was long dead but the vegetation was still slowly burning. 110 1
stephband @stephen.band · 02/05/2025Safari is really bad at updating styles calc()'d from var()s in a shadow DOM, leading to the sort of bugs seen in this image (description in alt text), which is not seen in other browsers. You can play with that problem live on this page: www.swisstypefaces.com/fonts/euclid/ 050 5
stephband @stephen.band · 25/03/2025Small milestone today as I got automation scheduling hooked up to WebAudio AudioParams via a signals graph – mumbo jumbo that means my faders and other controls follow what the audio is being told to do. (The piano is my sampler, no UI yet, but I'm close to sequencing some serious shit). #webdev 110 1
stephband @stephen.band · 05/03/2025Nearly showtime in Geneva. Theatre de l'Usine until Sunday. www.theatredelusine.ch/spectacle/bi... 010 1
stephband @stephen.band · 05/03/2025I have a (speculative) question for you. I am currently making an object graph sound design environment. It's not ready yet, but looks like this. Each object UI has its own shadow DOM. I wonder if your harp is open-source, and if you'd be interested in porting it, with help, to work as an object? 110 1
stephband @stephen.band · 08/01/2025Trying to improve my timelapse technique. Any photographers know why there is some brightness flickering here? #Lumix S5 set to full manual, ISO included. Does extreme cold/wind affect it? I have the RAWs. Whats the best tool to reprocess them? #scotland #timelapse #video #landscapephotography 120 2
stephband @stephen.band · 06/01/2025Frustratingly I can't get Android to screen record with sound. So this maybe doesn't help! It is working though. When it gets loud it begins to distort. Perhaps a compressor node set to 20:1 ratio might help? 210 2
stephband @stephen.band · 15/12/2024Anyone familiar with Logic Pro might notice some similarities with my fader handle design :/ 020 2
stephband @stephen.band · 07/12/2024(I am also writing CEs for audio nodes. This week I've been working on a fourier groove analyser/synth, but I have also been building a graph UI out of CEs, so I'm really interested in what you're doing) 010 1
stephband @stephen.band · 06/12/2024I shot one recently, and am disturbed by the difference HDR export makes to flower colour. You can't see this on @bsky.app because they compress images to SDR. But if you have an HDR-capable screen/machine, compare the blues with this HDR version: sound.stephen.band/photos/flow-... Mad difference. 010 1
stephband @stephen.band · 02/12/2024Playing with a little tool I built at the weekend that analyses rhythms by harmonic series, allowing you to morph one rhythm to another, and design groove quantisations, by controlling their harmonics. It's interesting. It may have legs. 130 3
stephband @stephen.band · 30/11/2024Got to be careful with that fine black sand, though. I lay in it for some time shooting this ship; wind blew it into all the buttons on my new camera: they ground themselves down for days. Keep them coming! I love following your photos. You're tempting me into a winter trip north :) 110 1
stephband @stephen.band · 30/11/2024Every time @sophiecarr.bsky.social posts it puts me back north, this one reminds me of the wind-blown sand formations on Breidavik beach. 110 1
stephband @stephen.band · 21/10/2024Here, Firefox fails to update background colour when a button class is removed (until the button is next hovered), leaving black backgrounds hanging on multiple buttons where only one should be highlighted. 2/2 110 1
stephband @stephen.band · 21/10/2024Custom elements suffer some maddening CSS problems that only seem to apply to elements in a Shadow DOM. Here, Safari refuses to update a background-image gradient whose stops are controlled with a custom prop, leaving a black bar hanging... 1/2 120 2
stephband @stephen.band · 19/10/2024Aha. That shows @bsky.app does not support HDR avif images. Will it do HDR mp4? 100 1
stephband @stephen.band · 13/10/2024Just been handed a challenge in the form of a theatre plan. The audience are to be seated in the blue and orange regions, surrounded by a projection screen, the dotted line, and a holographic stage, the purple block. The challenge? A surround sound system that will deliver the best spatialisation... 100 1
stephband @stephen.band · 08/10/2024I'm toying with an in-browser MIDI routing environment (actually a generalised event routing graph, but lets start with MIDI ins and outs) I built in the last few days. I just got all the pipes and first few nodes working and it plays! #WebComponents all the way down, baby. Needs some style love. 130 3
stephband @stephen.band · 13/09/2024An MD just said I made her cry with some unexpected penny whistle improvising in her session, and I'm really touched because I haven't played the thing in years... it just seemed like the right thing to do in the moment. 110 1
stephband @stephen.band · 19/12/2023It erupted around 10am, and I was lucky to get there mid afternoon, before the valley had completely filled with lava, and while some of the vents were still approachable. 010 1
stephband @stephen.band · 19/12/20234km away, the ground was still smouldering from the previous year's eruption. 000 0
stephband @stephen.band · 19/12/2023I spent several nights entranced by it. It rained. It didn't matter. The rain sizzled off before it touched the lava. Everywhere the tinkle of solidifying lava shattering. I took this pic hiking back over the hill at 4am. 020 2
