Algorithmic musician. Generative coder. Big time user of MaxMSP.

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Salvage - EP

Salvage contains four selected recordings captured in 2024 — Live, improvised takes, captured digitally.

For me, 2024 was a year full of exploration and maturation in the Max/MSP environment. In particular, my effort was focused on building live sets that could be taken to the stage. With these sets, I wanted to create music that was as a full as a score, but also as improvisational and expressive as an instrument, using only my laptop and the interactive algorithms that I had coded. I built countless sets in that year, and hit the record button a dozen or so times.

These four recordings — which are, at times, rough around the edges — stood out. They capture what I was trying to achieve during that period of time — both in terms of technical achievement and sound.

In these tracks, you will hear loneliness, longing, and despair — a snapshot of my emotional state throughout my first year in New York.

Released July 4, 2025. Patched, performed, recorded, and mastered by Brian Gawlik.

Interactive Generative Soundscapes

New York is a noisy city, and ever since moving here I've found it increasingly critical to have something playing on my speakers at all times to help drown out the noise of the city. I've been a fairly consistent user of myNoise.net, but wanted to create my own noise machines as well. RNBO - a Cycling '74 product - has enabled me to deploy my Max projects to the web, making this possible.

Use the knobs to tune these soundscapes to your liking, and then sit back and enjoy. Or, if you prefer, actively tinker - Rhodes Lounge and Tones, in particular, are essentially playable instruments.