About

This is the personal website of Colin Drake (he/him), a musician, generative artist, and software engineer from Austin, Texas.

Sounds

Releases:

• Bracht & Drake - reverb hunting (2023, Final Tapes)
• grainbuf - symphonic infinite (2023)
• Colin Drake - i feel fine / whether machine (2023)
• Colin Drake - windowed discovery (2022)
• Colin Drake - patchwork piece (2022)
• Colin Drake - Drone & Drama (2022, Toneburst, cassette)
• Colin Drake - a few places (2021)
• Colin Drake - Summer Etudes (2020)
• February Warm Front - Four Patches (2020)
• February Warm Front - February Warm Front (2019)

Compilations:

• Elmet Brae - The Land (2023, Elmet Brae)
• The & Co Choir - Bordun Variations (2023, Planks Editions, compilation, cassette)
• fallgatter & co. - spring loops (2023, Toneburst, compilation, cassette)
• &co §1 - Octopus Rococo (2022, Toneburst & co, compilation, 3" CDr)

Visuals

• Generative Art: generative art sketchbook
• patterning: Arduino-powered art objects shown at Dadageek's Spring 2022 Showcase
• Video Art: livecoded video art

Software

Select software instruments written for Monome Norns:

• mouse: sequencer and gestural controller based on Laurie Spiegel’s Music Mouse
• dnd: a software port of Barry Joseph Cullen’s Drone & Drama instrument
• grendy: drone synth, inspired by the Grendel Drone Commander
• twine: randomized granular sampler

You can find more on my Github and Codeberg pages.

Elsewhere

I post about experimental music, modular/digital synthesis, and generative art on Mastodon.

Work

During the day I work as a software engineer at Bandcamp.

You can find my resume with contact info here.