Team

BJOOKS

Kim Bjørn · CEO, Author, and Designer
Kim is an author, electronic musician, and designer, with a profound interest in creativity and the interactions between people and their creations. PEDAL CRUSH is his ninth book, following the now industry-standard PATCH & TWEAK from 2018 and PUSH TURN MOVE from 2017. He has released six ambient albums of his electronic music and occasionally performs live at venues and events. Based in Copenhagen, he now runs the boutique publishing company BJOOKS together with Lars, while traveling all over the world when possible, or creating the next title that will make your music-making even better.

Lars Juhl · Brand manager
Handling our more than 100 resellers, Lars is responsible for our marketing- and event efforts, sales and publishing strategy, and is Kim's right hand in all things BJOOKS. He has a background in music industry distribution, as well as a professional career as a composer, music producer and DJ with several songs, and albums behind him. Lars joined Kim in conceptualizing and helping with the first Kickstarter campaign in 2017, can play almost any song on the piano, and is always up for meeting new resellers, artists, and makers.

We couldn't run BJOOKS without the passion and help from a lot of great people. One of them is our Shop Manager, Natascha, who make sure everyone gets their books, or their questions answered. All those who help gather content, write, photograph, illustrate, connect, review, and the like, we mention in the particular books. However, special mention goes to the below team of wonderful, creative, and dedicated people:

Co-Authors

Chris Meyer · Co-Author of PATCH & TWEAK
Chris took modular synthesis lessons as a teenager, got an Electrical Engineering degree so he could afford his ‘hobby,’ and then went on to work as an engineer for Sequential Circuits, Digidesign, Tom Oberheim, and Roland R&D US. He also wrote numerous articles for Music Technology Magazine, and a column for Keyboard. Projects he was involved in include the Sequential Prophet 2000, Prophet VS, and Studio 440, Digidesign Q-Sheet, and Roland DM- 80. He is perhaps best known for developing Vector Synthesis. Chris is creating videos, courses, and articles under the name Learning Modular. Don't forget to follow Chris on Instagram and YouTube, as well as his Patreon channel.

Scott Harper · Co-Author of PEDAL CRUSH
Scott is the musician, filmmaker and designer behind KNOBs. He made the mistake of playing a delay pedal as a teen, failing to realize that this action would determine the course of his young life. He has designed and consulted on a number of pedals, lived in several corners of the world, and briefly practiced marine science. Now based in Toronto, Scott’s primary interest is figuring out how to be efficient every now and then, and getting some rest. Don't forget to check out Scott's creative content on Instagram and YouTube, as well as his Patreon channel.

Editing team

Mike Metlay · Editor
Mike is a musician, author, music journalist, and recently retired Editor of Recording Magazine. He has edited both PUSH TURN MOVE and PEDAL CRUSH for BJOOKS. Mike runs Atomic Words - a freelance writing/editing and content creation company in the music technology sector. His 40-year electronic music catalog is chronicled on mrspiral.com and played on radiospiral.net.

Diana Smethurst · Assistant Editor
Diana is a radio show host, musician, author, and former Copy Editor of Recording Magazine. She has been on the editorial staff for PUSH TURN MOVE, PATCH & TWEAK, and PEDAL CRUSH and works with Mike at Atomic Words. She corrects every comma, word, and sentence with passion, and a beautiful smile. You can listen to her music via her website at gypsywitch.rocks and hear it played on radiospiral.net.

Paul Nagle · Editor
Paul edited PUSH TURN MOVE and PATCH & TWEAK. He is an electronic musician, author and synth enthusiast, whose reviews and writings have long been featured in Sound on Sound magazine. His catalog includes five novels and dozens of albums of solo and collaborative material with projects such as Binar, Headshock and Joint Intelligence Committee. Some of Paul’s electronic music is on Bandcamp.