busierthanusual.com is a constraint based musical experiment. I love to noodle with instruments and vocals, but rarely finish pieces. With busierthanusual.com I embraced a simple set of constraints. I would noodle on an instrument (guitar, bass, keys, drums, vocals) until I found something potentially interesting. Then I would get three takes on that instrument. Then I would overdub the next instrument, with which would also get three takes. I would repeat this process for all of the instruments I wanted parts for, then get three takes to mix it down.
devastationstation.com is an agorithmic music experiment with cellular automata. I had been tinkering with the ChucK music programming language and contemplating cellular automata. My brother David Brunton had previously done a deep dive into cellular automata, and showed me his "Kirby Gate", a simple rule that generates a Sierpiński triangle. (I thought that the Kirby Gate was one of his single transistor CPU designs named after a beloved dog with one transistor. I had remembered it as the Casey Field, named after his smarter dog. But he remembers it as the Kirby Gate, and our communications about the name are lost in the wind, and it was his novel simplification, so Kirby Gate it is). In this experiment the steps of the automata wrap around an 8x8 grid, and each flipped bit maps to a black square and a note from the Dorian scale (row) in an octave (column).