Ben McAllister - Latest Posts

From September 5, 2025: Music for the first apple picked from our 60-year-old tree.

From August 5, 2024: A little Teenage Engineering and piano always works.

From March 18, 2025:

From January 4, 2024: Found an old recording of Gracie telling me a story when they were 5.

From April 7, 2024: Another stream of consciousness exercise made into a piece.

From September 6, 2025: Starting to cool around here, and soon the rains are coming.

From August 28, 2024: From May 29 Number 150!

From November 6, 2025: Raising the Holier Grail pedal from the dead this week.

From September 4, 2024: Playing with octave dispersions on this one, better balance and less distortion.

From March 13, 2025:

From March 28, 2025: Developing this idea I came up with in Croatia in September.

From November 7, 2025: I fixed a bunch of bugs in Thuja this week, and have been messing with realtime remixing using what I've always called the loop-index method.

From February 1, 2026: Olallan Candidate Collage - 30, 33, 44, 70

From February 4, 2024: I"ve been making music with computers since I was in junior high, but started seriously when I learned Csound in the mid 90s studying composition at the University of Washington.

From March 6, 2025: I stayed up and had a long clear-eyed talk about family history with my dad tonight.

From January 14, 2024: The essence of Brubeck, without directly lifting anything.

From February 14, 2025: Getting ready for more duo rehearsals with the drummer Neil Wilson and reconvening with Guitar Cult for recording.

From August 19, 2024: From Feb 19: This line over Jason's funk was a pain for some reason - I couldn't settle on what left hand fingering to use.

From October 13, 2024: An embellishment on my 5.29 post.

From April 21, 2025: This is my little field recording rig, minus the parabolic mic from Soundshark.

From August 30, 2024: "Arkansas Traveler" is a traditional fiddle tune that I first heard electrified on a compilation of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant's called Stratosphere Boogie.

From October 14, 2025: Ok the notebook says Stoic is the name but that absolutely sucks.

From January 12, 2026: Beat practice with csound and the ep-133.

From February 6, 2024: A short one today, created on a plane in 2018.

From September 16, 2024: Another sketch from Croatia - the view of the moon and waves between the islands of Pržnjak and Trstenik.

From March 16, 2025:

From April 7, 2025: Pictured - burning Scotch Broom in Olalla, 4/7/2022

From August 26, 2024: From April 7 Another stream of consciousness exercise made into a piece.

From March 12, 2025: Rabbit holed on fixing a little bug in Thuja.

From August 16, 2024: From Jan 15: This thing has been called Slider Rays or Lines Above in my notebook for a little over five years.

From August 23, 2024: From March 25: Another Slider Ray - this one called Lines Above.

From April 8, 2024: A complicated warmup turned into something simpler.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Big awesome show for Caudal Peduncle tonight in Tacoma.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Olallan sets from 3.18 and 3.19.

Prepping for what will be my first Olallan show at the Graphite Arts Center between 5-8 during Art Walk Edmonds on Thursday March 19th.

❯ can I ask you an artistic question?

Prepping for what will be my first Olallan show at the Graphite Arts Center between 5-8 during Art Walk Edmonds on Thursday March 19th.

Prepping for what will be my first Olallan show at the Graphite Arts Center between 5-8 during Art Walk Edmonds on Thursday March 19th.