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GrooveMachine.com
GrooveMachine
A playable rhythm machine in the browser. Finished enough to release; alive enough to keep changing.
Coming soonDublin · Philadelphia · Online since 1996
Ciarán
Paul Roche
I make websites, companies, images, music and films. I’m a father before any of those things.
The tools changed. The need to make things never did.
GeoCities, AOL Homesites, Web Studio, WordPress, Webydo, Canva, code—and whatever comes next. Nearly forty years of electronic music and thirty years of websites sit behind the work on this page.
- Father
- Designer + developer
- Domain investor
- Electronic musician
- Image + film maker
01 / Now
Nearly ready.
This is where the energy is going this week.
In development02
SnookerSite.com
SnookerSite
A complete rebuild of a long-running independent snooker site, with news, guides and practical tools.
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ProductManager.net
ProductManager
A working product space for turning ideas into decisions, plans and shipped work.
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ClassroomAudioTech.com
Classroom Audio Technology
Digital product and identity work for an Irish classroom-audio company, designed to help every voice carry.
Visit siteHow it gets made now
Forgebuilding.
My word for using the tools available now to turn a burst of energy into something real. An idea does not need a grand theory; it needs attention, judgment and enough momentum to cross the line.
Build, check, revise, ship.
One image / every day
This one stays.
I began Knots Make the Oak Strong around 2012. In 2021 I returned to it and fixed the visitor badge into the canvas.
I look at it every day. What happened is not hidden. It became part of the picture—and the tree is still standing.
02 / The long line
A life spent making things.
Not a résumé. The parts that explain the work.
- 01
1980s
Sound before screens
Electronic music and noise made at home: machines, tape, repetition and the pleasure of finding a sound by accident.
- 02
1996
The web begins
The first sites were made on GeoCities. Then came AOL Homesites, Web Studio, WordPress, Webydo and hundreds of websites for clients, companies and ideas of my own.
- 03
Early web years
Sites that became businesses
MedicalAlert.com and MedicalAlarm.com helped establish Connect America, alongside roughly one hundred dealer sites—including an early MedicalGuardian.com.
- 04
After the exit
A different centre
I stepped away from the companies to focus on fatherhood. I stayed active through not-for-profit work, music, film, images and the web.
- 05
Graphic design
The working archive grows
Client graphics, film art, posters, identities, experiments and discarded directions. Creating for the sake of creating was never time wasted.
- 06
Now
Forgebuilding the future
A burst of energy becomes a working product: make it while the idea is alive, test it honestly, revise it and get it out into the world.
03 / Images
Made, found, altered, kept.
Cities, weather, insects, diagrams, strange jokes and uneasy little worlds. Not a moodboard—the work itself.
Original art archive
04 / Logic by Machine
Electronic music. Found film. Original images.
I make the music, then edit it against film from the Prelinger Archives and images of my own. I use the archive for research, filmmaking and because I still enjoy getting lost in it.
YouTube channelOriginal upload record
The Pale Blue Dot
The description preserved on the 2011 upload lists 18 YouTube honours from the platform’s old country charts.
- Ireland
- #4 Most viewed music · month
- Mexico
- #19 Most viewed music · week
- Argentina
- #30 Most viewed music · week
- Today
- 627K Public views
See all 18 honours preserved on the original upload
- #101Top Rated (This Month) — Music — Ireland
- #4Most Viewed (This Month) — Music — Ireland
- #81Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Morocco
- #151Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Yemen
- #53Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Czech Republic
- #105Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Germany
- #144Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Israel
- #148Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — India
- #159Most Viewed (This Week) — Argentina
- #30Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Argentina
- #48Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Spain
- #103Most Viewed (This Week) — Mexico
- #19Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Mexico
- #137Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — France
- #82Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Italy
- #88Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Poland
- #112Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Brazil
- #125Most Viewed (This Week) — Music — Sweden
The complete public catalogue
8 films + 13 Shorts · sorted by the view counts visible on 19 August 2026
Film
the pale blue dot [/ logic by machine]
“Fantastic sounds, music and videos, your channel is amazing, glad that i´ve found it. Music became something special again, didn´t have that feeling for a long time.”
@thestring100 · YouTube ↗
Film
GRAZING :: LOGIC BY MACHINE
“this ear/eyepiece is just grateful...:-)”
@MyCosmoTube · YouTube ↗
Film
ELECTRONICA — LOGIC BY MACHINE
“Simply put, you're really good at this.”
@HiAdrian · YouTube ↗
Film
The Anatomy of a (Cartier Calibre) Watch
“Classy. You could easily fool people into thinking this was an original Cartier promo clip. Nicely done!”
@soundseeker63 · YouTube ↗
Film
Civil Disobedience @ 493
“Excellent! Really enjoyed both the music & the film”
@thonkbgone · YouTube ↗
Film
RILO — LOGIC BY MACHINE (2005)
“Interesting sounds....unique music!”
@rovingrepairbot · YouTube ↗
Film
The Coming Computer Revolution
No public viewer comment on this upload.
Short
Buckie High — Boards of Canada
“hot damn these guys are good”
@michaeloftaoism · YouTube ↗
Short
28 seconds
No public viewer comment on this upload.
Short
3.19.22
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Short
The Simplex Method
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Short
3 Keys. One human. One take.
“That was unique! nice!”
@PTG2025 · YouTube ↗
Film
The Computer And The Mind Of Man — KQED TV NET (1962)
No public viewer comment on this upload.
Short
all together now
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Short
Kind of Magic (short version)
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Short
You're the future Tom Greene
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Short
00:34:60 — 1 human, 3 synths
No public viewer comment on this upload.
Short
Happy (re) Cycling
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Short
Love Loop (2012)
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Short
Productive generators of useful novelty
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Short
Animated Putty (1911)
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05 / Right now
Notes from the middle of it.
New work, passing thoughts and whatever is taking shape today.
@ciaranroche on BlueskyRecent notes
@ciaranroche↗
Archive, revise, evolve — don’t erase!
@ciaranroche↗
Logic by Machine: a live improvisation for three synthesisers, performed against a vintage Shipping Forecast recording. One continuous take. No DAW, overdubs or editing.
@ciaranroche↗
Logic by Machine is a name I took over 15 years ago from a 1962 public-television film about computers and the human mind. Today: 3 synths, 1 human, 1 live take, no DAW.
06 / A little context
Ciarán, without the pitch.
Born in Dublin, shaped by Ballymun and long based in Philadelphia.
I have been building websites since 1996 and making electronic music since the 1980s. I have built companies, owned and developed domain names, worked across web and graphic design for decades, made films and images, and kept a parallel life in not-for-profit projects.
I exited companies to focus on fatherhood. The work continued because creating has always been the way I understand things. Today, the newest tools are helping more of those ideas become real than they have in a long time.
07 / Contact
Say hello.
A project, an old connection, a strange idea—write to me. The email address stays off the page; your note goes to a private inbox.
No mailing list. No tracking pixel. No address published for scrapers.