This morning, I was surprised by a FedEx delivery guy knocking at my front door. Not expecting any packages myself, I assumed it would be something for one of my housemates, but, lo and behold, the package - a large, heavy box - was in fact addressed to me. “What could this mysterious package be?”, I wondered…

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Plastic Robot, a newly-created electronic music blog/zine, interviewed me recently to talk about Glitch, my music, my workflow, and to get my thoughts on a few other topics. If you want to see me ramble for a little while, you can read the interview at their website: plasticrobot.net.

In other news, I must apologise for the lack of updates to my own website. Although I have been working on a lot of different things over the past few months, there hasn’t been much that warrants a full post yet, in my opinion. Either way, I will try to be a little more active in the future by posting more bits and pieces to the site.

Welcome to the new Illformed.org website!

As you can see, quite a lot has changed. The site will no longer be functioning as a collective creative outlet for my friends and I, since most of the people involved (myself included) have either been inactive for a very long time, or are simply focusing mainly on other websites and time-consuming projects. As a result, the amount of content being generated by Illformed as a group was barely more than a trickle. After taking all of this into consideration, plus the fact that the site was hosted on a rather expensive dedicated server which was mainly going to waste, I could simply no longer justify the site’s existence. Time to chalk it up to experience and move on to something new!

This new, smaller site will serve as a home for all of my personal interests such as music production, programming, graphics, and photography, as well as being the home for any projects that I am working on in the future. I have decided to keep the Illformed name since I have always liked it, and since it has become quite recognisable due to my rather infamous Glitch VST plug-in.

Speaking of Glitch, I am going to be dedicating a lot more of my time to audio software development from this point onwards. After 9+ years in the web development industry I am definitely ready to try a new direction in life. Ultimately I would love to be able to make a modest living creating interesting plug-ins and other tools, so you can expect to see a few new things coming in the future, including some updates to Glitch, plus a mixture of fun freebies and reasonably-priced commercial products on offer.

In the meantime, please bear with me while I get comfortable with this new site and fill it up with content.

Cheers!

Me and some fellow Renoise nerds having fun at Evoke demo party 2007. From left to right: Antoine, Kaneel, me, Keith303, Gilli, Looza, Jürgen and Ptrance.

Photo credit: Keith303’s girlfriend.