brett g porter

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Music Software Developer/Trombonist/Composer Sr. Software Engineer @ . Exec board @ MIDI Manufacturers Association . he/him. Brewerytown, Philadelphia, USA Also @bgporter@hachyderm.io &

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brett g porter@bgporter· 1d

RIP Frank Beard.

Highway sign for the exit to La Grange, TX. Taken while driving to my first SXSW, 2014. Uh how how how

brett g porter@bgporter· 7d

Looks like a tie.

brett g porter@bgporter· 11d

It's always easy to spot me.

Closeup photo of me, a generic aging fellow, wearing a Roland 808 hat.

brett g porter@bgporter· Jul 10

BRB, gonna go check the neighborhood Facebook group to listen to them complain about this new kind of gentrification.

This image shows a real-time safety alert for "Loose Goats on Street" displayed on the Citizen app interface.

brett g porter@bgporter· Jul 5

Neighbors launching everything they have before the thunderstorm hits us.

brett g porter@bgporter· Jul 5

Watching the Philly July 4 concert from my cool basement instead of walking 15 minutes in the heat Jill Scott's band are fantastic.

Jill Scott performing at the big July 4 concert on the parkway in Philly. A giant version of her is projected behind her.

brett g porter@bgporter· Jun 2

Living in the future: live realtime translation at the Audio Developer Conference in Tokyo.

Live transcript of English speaker translated into Japanese. Looking forward to seeing how this handles my talk in a few hours.

brett g porter@bgporter· May 30

Day two: more fun at Roland

Prototype piano from the future. Only two ever made, saw both of them yesterday.

… And I got to play the piano from the future

Roland VS – 2480 virtual recording studio. I did some of the work on this project about 20 years ago.

One panel from the system 700 modular synth

brett g porter@bgporter· May 30

Day 2 trip to visit Roland…

Going to spend a few hours playing with everything at the Roland museum

brett g porter@bgporter· May 30

Tokyo pics day 2: trip to Hamamatsu

Waiting for the train that will take us to the Shinkansen bullet train

View of the train window of the countryside between Tokyo and Hamamatsu

brett g porter@bgporter· May 30

Tokyo pics: first day in Akihabara

Nighttime view of brightly lit Akihabara in wide angle

Lineup for the Ramen shop directly across from my hotel

Cool nighttime shot of a café with funky neon outside

Me, and aging white dude in sunglasses in front of a Pachinko parlor

brett g porter@bgporter· May 17

Reporting from night 2 of They Might Be Giants in Philly: John Henry feature. Bonus tonight: VIP by proxy.

brett g porter@bgporter· May 16

Reporting from the They Might Be Giants show in Philly night 1.

TMBG on stage with pink and blue lights. S-E-X-X-Y

After show pass. It’s nice to have a friend in the band.

brett g porter@bgporter· May 13

Ever since I started working from home in 1997 (!) I have made it a strict policy to get out of the house and walk at lunchtime. Today, I stumbled into doing a man-on-the-street interview with the local Fox station about the World Cup Fan Fest that's taking over my neighborhood next month.

Me, a balding middle aged dude in sunglasses, mid-interview, trying hard to form complete and concise sentences. Caption: "What to know about World Cup parking permits near Lemon Hill". Chyron caption: "Internal bleeding was the reason he missed 2nd round." Hope they weren't talking about me.

brett g porter@bgporter· May 8

Here right now!

brett g porter@bgporter· Mar 29

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness. #filmsky #moviesky

brett g porter@bgporter· Mar 24

Agreed -- seeing "Bells (I Am)" live was as close as I've come to a religious experience.

Two musicians with large metal handbells

brett g porter@bgporter· Mar 6

I’ll be in my office.

John Cleese, behind his news announcer's desk, about to declare 'and now for something completely different'. 15 September, 1970

brett g porter@bgporter· Oct 18

In Center City Philadelphia for the No Kings demonstration (in lieu of alt text: 4 photos of a lot of people in the city, many with signs ranging from funny to livid in their messages.) NO KINGS NO NAZIS GO BIRDS

brett g porter@bgporter· Sep 21

Fantastic set at Solar Myth last night. The new (asterisk) tunes were fantastic, looking forward to hearing them again someday.

Mary halvorson sextet at Solar Myth, Philadelphia.

brett g porter@bgporter· Sep 9

Lived in #philly for 6 months and already at the point where I read this and say, "yeah, makes sense."

Screenshot of "Citizen" app, headline: "Report of man Armed With Fistful of Rice, Fish Threatening People" 4.6 miles away from me. Icon of a knife inside a golden circle in the middle of the image.

brett g porter@bgporter· Aug 4

(between sets my son and I still appeared stunned by the whole thing...)

Selfie showing the Central Park summer stage, waiting for They Might Be Giants to take the stage, Aug 2017.

brett g porter@bgporter· Jul 20

The MIDI Innovation Awards, established in 2021, celebrate groundbreaking advancements in MIDI technology. We've had a record number of entrants this year, including in the new category dedicated to MIDI 2.0. Help us select the finalists in each category by voting at midi.org/innovation-a...

Banner: Vote in the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards

brett g porter@bgporter· Jul 19

This is where I post from

Orson Welles points at a picture of himself as CF Kane

brett g porter@bgporter· Jun 26

It's hot out! Share some movie or TV characters at the beach.

Barton Fink sits fully dressed on the beach next to a mysterious package

brett g porter@bgporter· Jun 21

Two friends I met on the sidewalk

A snail hiding inside their brown and yellow shell

A black and blue spray-painted graffiti dinosaur

brett g porter@bgporter· Jun 18

It’s worse than we thought:

From Citizen app: report of man in Mr. softee truck armed with gun

brett g porter@bgporter· Jun 3

An update from the neighborhood regarding my stamp collection: bgporter.net/posts/philly...

old-timey looking Sidewalk Stamp, "Wm Krause Cement & Asphalt Paving"

brett g porter@bgporter· May 28

Cf achewood.com/2013/09/06/t...

Panel from a achewood comic showing a tattoo saying ICE CREAM HEADACHE

brett g porter@bgporter· May 27

We moved to Philadelphia this spring, and the sidewalks have these little badges to identify the company that installed them. I can’t pass one and not photograph it.