Hello!

I’m Chris Lowis. I’m a member of a co-operative software development company called Go Free Range. I used to work at FutureLearn, the BBC and the German Aerospace Center. I make music and write about audio on the web platform. I’m a husband and a dad (to two boys).

I’ve had a homepage at this domain for over 20 years. I’m still as excited today as I was then that it’s possible for anyone to have their own little corner of the web. And although I’m active on various social media platforms, this place belongs to me. There might be some things you find interesting too:

Weeknotes

During the COVID-19 pandemic some of my friends started writing weekly posts. Reading about their lives, hobbies and struggles with the state of the world was a great comfort to me, so I decided to do the same. My most recent weeknote is from 23 January 2022 and I’ve written 47 more.

Blog posts

Since 2008 I’ve occasionally written blog posts here. They’re mostly on technical topics and a lot of the older ones are now out-of-date. But there’s a few that still stand up I think:

• I wrote up some notes from a talk I gave at IRCAM in Paris at the 1st Web Audio Conference in 2015.
• The same year I also gave a talk on the history of synthesis at ScotlandJS. I wrote loads of Web Audio code to explore different types of synthesis for this talk and never really did anything with it afterwards.
• People still occasionally write to thank me for a few tutorial posts I wrote on the Web Audio API. I think the code in those still makes sense even if it could do with updating to use more recent additions to the API.

Notes

I’ve recently started writing notes. They’re my take on a personal wiki or digital garden. The idea is that I’ll write and share more without the ceremony of “blogging”.

Sketches

My sketches are a place to document and share music that I’ve made. Some of this might also get shared on my instagram or soundcloud.