Code / art / sound

Hey, I'm
Ben.

Software architect, artist, and hands-on mechanic.
I build software, make music, take photographs, and keep machines running.

CODEARTSOUND

01 / The logical side

Made of code.

GitHub

Alpha testing

Telic

Build worlds. Make choices that matter. An accessible, open-source RPG engine with text-and-audio-first play and tools for authoring branching adventures.

Earlier projects

Hardware & agency

Ownership, hands-on.

I favor open source, local execution, and rules I can inspect. My garage is that philosophy made physical.

Encrypted firmware, updates that can brick hardware, and repair locks backed by anti-circumvention law put the manufacturer between you and your machine. I maintain machines that leave the diagnosis and the repair in my hands.

Mechanical state machines: inputs, consequences, faults I can trace. I debug them with a wrench, a multimeter, and my own hands. No dealership decryption keys required.

In the garage

  • 1939

    Dodge Luxury Liner Deluxe

  • 1949

    MG TC

  • 1987

    BMW 325e

If you can't read the code or turn the wrench, you don't own the machine.

02 / Outside the lines

Art.

Photography on Flickr
An orange sun above the ocean, its reflection stretching toward the beach.
Brigantine Sunrise 7
A sailboat mast and rigging silhouetted against a golden evening sky.
Rigging
Birds flying above silhouetted waterfront pilings against a pale golden sky.
Birds

03 / Find the signal

Sound.

SoundCloud header artwork: a toothy creature with a bright red tongue against an icy blue background.

Good things
take shape.

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