Hi! I'm Jake Elliott.

I make games, music & artware. I'm currently working on the game Kentucky Route Zero with my friends Tamas Kemenczy and Ben Babbitt. With my friend jonCates, I run the internet radio station NUMBERS.FM.

Reach me by email at jake@dai5ychain.net. If you'd like to keep up with what I'm working on, sign up for my low-traffic email newsletter.

Games

I've been making nonviolent, slow-paced, narrative games since early 2010. In 2011, my game "A House in California" was a finalist in the IGF's Nuovo category. Around that time, my friend Tamas Kemenczy & I founded game studio Cardboard Computer, and started working on our first game, Kentucky Route Zero.

Now - Kentucky Route Zero - with Tamas Kemenczy & Ben Babbitt
2013 - A (MOTH) in RELAY - with jonCates
2012 - We Were You - developed for Pitchfork & Kill Screen's Soundplay series, based on the song "Intro" by M83
2012 - The Penguins' Dilemma - unreleased, exhibited at OhNoDoom! in Chicago
2011 - Balloon Diaspora - with music by Oliver Blank
2010 - A House in California
2010 - Hummingbird Mind
2010 - I Can Hold My Breath Forever
2010 - Beulah and the Hundred Birds
2010 - Dog and Bone are Friends

Music

I've been involved in experimental music and performance since 2000 or so. For the last several years, I've been collaborating regularly on music projects with my friend jonCates. For a few years, Jon & I played a 2-hour weekly radio show called Slow Electronics. In 2011, we started an internet radio station for experimental music called NUMBERS.FM. I was really into modular synthesizers for a few years, and right now I'm focused on handmade circuits and the Shnth.

Calico Cassettes - A series of tapes I'm making & selling on Bandcamp.
My Soundcloud page - I post a lot of sketches here
Source of Uncertainty - my studio diary
NUMBERS.FM
Slow Electronics
0UR080R05 - noise/video/performance duo with jonCates
Magic Matrix Mixer Mountain - a one-night installation/performance hosted by LAMPO, in collaboration with Mark Beasley, jonCates, Alex Inglizian, Tamas Kemenczy, Nicholas O'Brien & Jon Satrom
Sing Sweet Software - a podcast of dj sets, mostly techno
Winter Mutiny Dubs - dub reggae remixes

Artware

This work is made of and about software. Check out this fantastic 1999 essay by Saul Albert, "Artware," for some background on the use of that term. I picked it up from my friend jonCates, and the group Critical Artware, which he co-founded and in which I was a core developer for a few years.

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