TEAM
Kim Bjørn · CEO and Founder, 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, while traveling all over the world when possible, or creating the next title that will make your music-making even better.
BJOOKS couldn't run 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, resellers get stock, or customers get their questions answered and problems solved. 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:
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.
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.