Archive: 2024

I just released a new video piece. I called it INK because there's a lot of ink in the video and "Ink" looks so small. Sounds composed with Csound using a python script I wrote to analyze the individual frames of the video. A big screen is recommended (I use the Vimeo app on an Apple TV to watch my videos on my television).

INK from Matthew Conroy on Vimeo.

The cherry trees on the UW campus are at about peak bloom. As much as I like the trees (and I love the trees!), I like even more the fact that so many people come every year to see them; they stand around smiling and taking pictures of each other with the trees all around them, and it gives me hope to see humans so thoroughly enjoying naturally beautiful things.

I made another chapbook/zine. Let me know if you'd like one and I'll send it to you!

I finished my EP for the RPM Challenge 2024.

I had a lot of fun with it: I think I had more time to spend on it this month than in many recent Februaries.

I put it on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Let me know what you think!

I put together this chapbook of drawings I've made using code I wrote over the last few years. I've been printing it at home and staple binding it. I'm pleased with the results, and have mailed a number of them to people. Get in touch if you'd like to have one, I'd be happy to send one to you.

A cold spell in Seattle has created ice in places it normally is not seen.

while measuring my blood pressure
(disappointing numbers)
through the biggest window
I saw a hummingbird land for a moment
on the leafless January dogwood

a black silhouette against
the next-door beige Brutalist behemoth
built after demolishing this humble house's twin
after Steve and Eydie (their real names!) left
and moved their lives across town

the hummingbird wasn't there tomorrow
(but my numbers were a little better)