The mess below is a work in progress and- if I can get it all done without starting a fire- will eventually be a step-sequenced filter pedal.  It's got a great sound, and owes a lot to the schematics of the man from Beavis Electronics (who seems to have forgotten to pay the subscription for his domain name this month, hence the lack of a link)

The white tube is a vactrol, which is a nifty little component consisting of a Light Dependent Resistor staring right at a red LED.  I love the concept of it: it's so simple.

I did this silly cartoon for a mate a few years ago.  See if you can guess the name of the song.

This week I've been hard at work building a cigar box guitar.  I'm a lucky chap to be able to waste so much time on such things.  It plays well, has quite a nice tone and holds its tuning.

There's loads of good advice on building them online, especially at cigarboxguitars.com.  I got the idea from Make magazine initially, and then found out that- of course- there's a load of people making them, from the most basic up to the Stratocaster-with-a-cigar-box-stuck-to-it level.  My fave builder is Chickenbone John.
I was worried about fretting it for fear I'd get the intonation wrong, but I think I'm going to go for it, because I want the sustain that frets give.  I had a load of friendly help from the guys at Deimel guitars in Schöneberg, who have made axes for no less than Sonic Youth.
I've got lots of instruments already, but building a simple guitar was a wonderful thing:  It's all your creation, from the look to the sound, and you feel that you have to work with what you've made.  You can have the limitless capabilities of Max/MSP, but  there is also power in having a limited palette.

I've dreamed of making an album for years and years, but in my mind it would have to perfect.  Unsurprisingly this got in the way of doing anything about making an album.
Then Bandcamp came along and took away the chore and the pressure of pressing, distributing, folding and gluing etc.
This morning I thought "There's no point sitting on a whole load of good music is there?", so I looked through the big variety of tracks that I've accumulated over the years, tweaked them a bit and stuck 4 of them together on an EP, which you can listen to and/or buy by clicking the cover art below.  I do hope that you will enjoy it.