Books

Liverest! (2022)

Explorations, shortcuts, extrapolations, junctions at the crossroads of real life, the zeitgeist and collective primordial myths. It’s weird, and it’s not trying not to be. Another outing into what writing becomes when it panders to random live audiences.

Liverer! (2019)

Liverer! is the third collection of open-mic stories, performed at open mic venues over the course of 2018.

Much of it is hypothetical fantasy, a few lists, cosmic imagining, self-deprecation.

Lots of coarse language and long words, some invented.

The Memory Monkey (2017)

Max and Tascha were supposed to be unbreakable as a couple after being conditioned in the Institute for Behavioral Research that took them in as war refugees. Bound to one another, their pre-institute memories wiped clean, they unexpectedly unravel when Tascha finds she wants to see other people.

Their search for answers and new belonging takes them away from their mountain town, away from their outdoor equipment shop, away from the Extrapolist church, a pseudo-scientific faith in which life is viewed as a meeting place for souls. They go back to the architect of the memory wipe and beyond, to a strange, telepathic monkey who’s been with them the whole time.

Rialdy comes to work as a consultant in a mining plant on the Aranacian island of Wizniu and looks for traces of his deceased Aranacian mother, meeting a monkey of his own on the way.

The Memory Monkey is an exploration the nature of human bonds and the untrustworthy nature of memory.

Liver! (2017)

Liver! is the second collection of open-mic stories, all of which were performed at open mic venues over the course of 2016-2017.

There’s fiction in there, confessional pieces, fantasy, lists.

And more coarse language.

Live! (2016)

Live! is a collection of stories written for live reading, that I performed at open mic venues over the course of 2015.

It’s a mix of a few styles, some of the pieces are experimental, and the subjects range from fantasy to auto-fiction.

There are a few swear words.

The Click Shortcuts (2016)

The Click Shortcuts is about the emergence of a writing system in Geremoth, where they use the same writing system as all the other countries on the continent. When mobile phones appear though, Geremoth’s youth start communicating with an alternative system, that imitates sounds. Behind its rise are its fragile-brained inventor Bejia, Anossia who needs it to remain relevant as a student-tutor, Berbi the memorization champion who’ll use it to remember, and Geluko the scientist who needs a source of revenue to promote Besa, the genetically designed crop plant that assaults other crop plants.

Puppet Dancers (2014)

Puppet Dancers is my first novel. It is available in both print and electronic form. If you don’t feel like paying for it, just email me and I’ll send it to you for free.

The novel is about a dance style. Known to Baguetelians as the robotic swerve and to Margolians as the puppet dance, its history is veiled in legend, but strange events uncovered by data analysts will reveal its true function, beyond Baguetelians’ ironic imitation of laboratory robots or Margolians’ nostalgia of lost empires.

Code

Cards

Cards is an ECMAScript library for building card-based user interfaces quickly, reliably, and simply. It uses a function-chaining mechanism that allows writing usable interfaces in a flow-friendly way, enabling progressive enhancement of websites with minimal code.

See code on github.

Stemel

Stemel, or Step Sequencer Expression Language, is a music notation format inspired by step sequencers and MML, to write music in a format that’s both human readable and code-exploitable. stemel makes it easy to write long sequences of melodies, with a simple syntax to support polyphony.

See code on github.

Articles

A typist's obsession with the perfect keyboard

09 March 2021
I own many keyboards. I will one day own many more. I can't stop. I don't know why I do this, but I can try to explain.

A sequencer synth in FoxDot

10 January 2019
A sequencer synth in FoxDot, in less than 50 lines of code.

SteMeL

04 November 2018
A musical notation I've been working on that aims to be to music coding what markdown was to document writing. Still in early stages.

The Strange, Alternate Reality of Paris’ English-language Open Mic Events

30 March 2018
About my experience attending open mic events.

Marathon time predictor

10 December 2010
A tool for predicting your marathon time. Based on projections I made from data taken off the Paris marathon and half-marathon websites triangulating runners who'd finished both races.

About me

I am René Ghosh, a coder, writer and musician from Rigaud, Québec, now living in Paris, France. This is my homepage.