I’ve wanted a tool like this for years, because I’ve always found myself sitting at my piano and wishing that with one button I could very easily record a jam. Something way more pared down than a daw, with less setup time and complexity, and that won’t tempt me to start piling on effects.

Field Recorder on Steroids

Taking inspiration from the simplicity of tape machines and field recorders, I wanted to create a modern hybrid that could capture both audio and MIDI simultaneously. The goal was to preserve that spontaneous “just hit record” feeling while adding the flexibility of digital recording.

I’ve been working on some new music and wanted to have a way to create a Spotify Canvas from my album artwork. This script needed to do a few things:

• Take album artwork as input (or any still image)
• Resize to 9:16 for phone screens
• Apply the effect(s)
  • random digital artifacting
  • glitches from the glitch-this library
  • vertical pixel smearing
• output a few different filetypes in a new directory:
  • png
  • gif
  • final mp4 for spotify

Here’s an example with the album artwork: