Computation, infrastructure, and systems engineering.
- computation
- SICP
- programming languages
- Linux
Latest → FretField
Bessi Labs
A public laboratory for computation, perception, strategy, sound, discipline, and the inner architecture of mastery.
Different materials, one question: how do complex systems work, and how does a person become more precise inside them?
Rooms of the Lab
Chess, strategy, and decision-making under constraint.
- chess
- strategy
- calculation
- pattern recognition
Music, harmony, and the study of structured time.
- music
- piano
- bass
- harmony
Latest → Thinking in Groove
Endurance, strength, and physiological adaptation.
- endurance
- strength
- swimming
- running
Philosophy, reflection, and the architecture of attention.
- philosophy
- discipline
- focus
- identity
Latest → On Quality
Fragments, logs, and unfinished thoughts.
- fragments
- observations
- logs
- experiments
Latest Notes
FretField
An interactive bass-fretboard app that teaches the neck as a spatial field of harmonic possibilities instead of a grid of shapes to memorize, with live pitch detection and guided practice.
Thinking in Groove
An interactive, piano-score-based book on how musicians design bass lines through harmony, motion, and time — the companion to Thinking in Layers, with the left hand as the bass and the right hand as its context.
Chessroll
A deterministic CLI that turns PGN games and FEN positions into polished short-form vertical videos, rendered from real Stockfish analysis and real chess rules rather than screen-recorded from a website.
Notaroll
A CLI that turns a single ABC notation file into a synchronized rolling-score video: modern engraved notation scrolling under a fixed playhead in sync with a realistic sampled piano.
Thinking in Layers
A mental model for jazz piano harmony built on superimposition — an underlying function, a structure placed above it, and the resulting color — taught through one fixed progression with playable, inline notation.
Personal site: alessandrobessi.com