Kyle Stetz
I am a software engineer with a background in industrial design. I like solving problems, making art, and building instruments.
I do frontend engineering at Slack and co-founded the record label Grind Select.
Personal Work
- CLNDR.js 2013 is a calendar plugin, widely used in the era of jQuery
- Lissajous.js 2014 is a tool for performing music with javascript in the browser
- typedrummer 2015 lets you create drum beats by typing
- scribble.audio 2016 lets you draw loops of sound
- midifinity 2018 is a synthesizer with a unique patch at every URL
- Slang 2018 is a simple programming language for music
- turtle.audio 2018 is an L-system inspired 2-dimensional music sequencer, and my proudest achievement
- spaceis.cool 2019 … isn’t it?
For Grind Select
Interactive music sites
- all boy/all girl’s Trophy Smasher 2015
- Parks Burton/Kazimier Gifts EP 2015
- all boy/all girl – Andrea Amati Canvas 2015
- Museyroom’s Pearly Whites Postcard 2016
- Sam Greens – Draw over “Rugs” 2016
- all boy/all girl’s slagroom satisfaction survey 2016
- Moon Bounce – Safe Word Karaoke 2017
Album art & vinyl package design
- all boy/all girl – Andrea Amati 2015
- Sam Greens – Rugs 2016
- all boy/all girl – Slagroom 2016, vinyl package
- Pine Barons – The Acchin Book 2017
- Prism House – Momentum 2017
- Parks Burton – Pare 2018
- Prism House – Pulse 2018
- Son Step – Fossilillies 2019
- A Beacon School – Cola 2019
- Blue Canopy – Mild Anxiety 2020
- Pine Barons – Mirage on the Meadow 2020, vinyl package
- Blue Canopy – Sleep While You Can 2021
- Sucreblooms – Outgrow 2021
- A Beacon School – yoyo 2022
- S.C.A.B. – s/t 2022, vinyl package
- Brian Wenner – Age of Execution 2023
- Death Meta – Malware 2025
These can all be found on bandcamp.
Early Work
Early in my career I worked on interactive art installations in Philadelphia.
- The Franklin Institute’s “Your Brain” exhibit 2010 - 2014 — I served as a digital media prototyper on the design team and designed many of the digital experiences in the exhibit
- The Trestleator 2013 — a projection mapping system for The Trestle Inn in Philadelphia, running continuously since 2013
- Flora Catalogus 2013 — a nature & sound installation, part of Data Garden’s Switched On Garden 002 event. In collaboration with Leslie Stetz, with knit forms by Andrew Dahlgren.
- Dunkel Dare at Philly Beer Week 2012 - 2014 — an adult Double Dare event hosted by Marc Summers for which I built and operated custom scoreboards