Ben McAllister

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a sketch, a demo, a field recording, something I heard that day, a thought and a picture.

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Ben McAllister

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January 21, 2026 21.01.2026 0:40

Link to the post.

January 20, 2026 20.01.2026 1:12

Realtime rehearsal bits for the new project, Olallan. Link to the post.

January 19, 2026 19.01.2026 1:24

First show where Caudal Peduncle's playing a song I wrote. Xanadu. Link to the post.

January 18, 2026 18.01.2026 1:26

I dunno man, I keep coming back to this Ibanez because it's the first fancy guitar I got back in 1989 or so. I like to do Vietnamese things with the bar. Ableton interpreted a fun accompaniment, trying to pull harmonies from this mess. Link to the post.

January 17, 2026 17.01.2026 0:44

Here's where we've (Medicine Hat) landed this week with the line I posted yesterday. The working title of this one is Acha. Link to the post.

January 16, 2026 16.01.2026 1:45

I posted this about a year ago initially - it's part of a new Medicine Hat tune we're recording next week. This OG version I demoed is a long way from where we landed. Link to the post.

January 15, 2026 15.01.2026 0:37

This previous minute came up again this week as a potential new riff for one of the two new Medicine Hat tunes we're recording at the end of Jan. Can't forget about Alan Roe's guide to music on shortwave. Link to the post.

January 14, 2026 14.01.2026 2:28

Beat practice with csound and the ep-133. There's gonna be a bunch of this over the next few weeks. Link to the post.

January 13, 2026 13.01.2026 2:02

Medicine Hat practice before we record at the end of the month. I love what Jace is doing with the drums. Link to the post.

January 12, 2026 12.01.2026 1:14

Beat practice with csound and the ep-133. Link to the post.

January 11, 2026 11.01.2026 1:13

Two ideas I think MIGHT go together, but this might just be a mess. Link to the post.

January 10, 2026 10.01.2026 2:36

I wrote a simulation in csound to replicate the sound of multiple tape recorders playing at -roughly- the same time. Picture 100 tapes being started roughly 1/20th of a second apart, and drifting the slightest bit. This is from 2016 or earlier maybe. Link to the post.

January 9, 2026 09.01.2026 1:12

Caudal Peduncle practice - two new tunes coming your way on Friday. Here's a little audio collage from last practice. Link to the post.

January 8, 2026 08.01.2026 0:50

Brother Robert from C'mon C'mon sent me a little snippet back in November that I completely forgot about, so I played with it for 5 minutes and put it up, ensuring it would not be forgotten. We miss Bobby! Link to the post.

January 7, 2026 07.01.2026 1:42

The return of Car Ride Adventure from post 28. I had to see how stem separation would deal with the vocoded effect on the TE PO-35. Link to the post.

January 6, 2026 06.01.2026 1:08

A new little study emerged tonight before Caudal Peduncle practice. This is rough - I'm taking bits from what's notated here and looping them, to get the pattern under my fingers. I'll develop this more over the week and probably fold it into my piece / study Slider Rays. Link to the post.

January 5, 2026 05.01.2026 1:52

NYE Improv part 5 Link to the post.

January 4, 2026 04.01.2026 1:47

How to notate this one - different key signatures? Link to the post.

January 3, 2026 03.01.2026 1:10

NYE Improv part 4 Link to the post.

January 2, 2026 02.01.2026 2:16

NYE Improv part 3 Link to the post.

January 1, 2026 01.01.2026 1:50

NYE Improv part 2 Link to the post.

December 31, 2025 31.12.2025 1:08

NYE Improv part 1 Link to the post.