Log

Experiments / Research / Thoughts
Reflection

L'Angle

The 2023 pivot, in my own words: how a Challenger player and an audiovisual designer turned out to be the same person.

Draft June 2026
Architecture

One System

Everything ARKADATA makes runs on one engine and one method. Not four projects, one system, four times.

Draft June 2026
Systems

Cookodex

Min-maxing applied to cooking. A systems-first app, and proof the thinking travels outside audiovisual.

Draft May 2026
Build Log

WordPress to Svelte

Tearing down the old WordPress site and rebuilding arkadata.com as a reactive system.

Draft April 2026
Origins

Origins

The 2015-2018 Yasuo streaming years, where the name came from, and closing the loop from player to creator.

Draft March 2026
Synthesis

Fifteen Monarks

A first-year brief asked for an inharmonic pad on Monark, a synth that can't make one. So I built additive by hand: fifteen instances, one partial each.

Draft Year One
Tooling

ARKITEKT / Gestalt

Building my own Reaper toolkit and a modular-rack engine, because owning the stack changes how you work.

Draft November 2025
Documentation

reARK

Building the reARK skin from Affinity Designer: the export-scaling system, symbols, and the 150% aliasing problem. The template, documented.

February 2023
Field Notes

Behind the Music

Adaptive scoring up close, and how it shaped the reactive sound I build.

Draft 2023
Synth Reverse Engineering

Megata Kyojin Kuchiku

Reverse engineering Sawano Hiroyuki's lead synth from Shingeki No Kyojin using u-He Zebra.

July 2021
Orch Reverse Engineering

Kanascene

Reproducing a Japanese orchestra piece by Sawano Hiroyuki with Cinematic Studio Strings.

April 2021