Misha-matics
Misha-matics is an ongoing musical practice built around performing an interval-based instrument called Misha.
Instead of triggering fixed pitches, I perform up and down interval gestures in time using a keyboard. Misha maps these gestures onto a selected scale, key, and chord structure.
Each Misha-matic begins as a live performance within a fixed musical system. I listen for what emerges, record the result, and then learn the resulting melody on electric bass. The process functions simultaneously as composition, ear training, instrumental study, and documentation.
The work is released as a long-running series of short-form pieces. Repetition, cataloging, and variation are central.
Over time, I began to understand constraint not as limitation, but as a form of care—a way to continue working, listening, and showing up without having to start from zero each day.
The focus is not on novelty or virtuosity, but on how the same musical gestures behave when filtered through different constraints.
Misha-matics functions as an instrument practice, a research process, and a living archive—an accumulation of attention over time rather than a collection of finished works.