Music

Every piece here begins the same way: pick a mode, improvise in it, and then do the slow part — get it onto paper. The playing is melodic with chords underneath it, which on four strings is more of a constraint than it sounds. Words, where a piece has them, are written afterwards. Improvising takes enough attention on its own without inventing a lyric at the same time.

Baritone ukulele so far, though not as a rule — there are lute and guitar pieces as well. What reaches this page is whatever I have found the time to write out properly, and there is a good deal more of it than there is here. Engraved with LilyPond and typeset through lyluatex, the package that puts LilyPond scores inside a LuaLaTeX document and one I help maintain.

A LilyPond engraving is a drawing: every glyph is a path, and so are the lyrics it prints under the staff — none of it is text a screen reader can find. Each piece therefore comes with a recording, and where a piece has words they are printed as text on its page, in Dutch with a translation. See accessibility.