The jazz bass subordinate Matthew Garrison doesn’t similar to dilatory down. “I’m ever thinking, doing,” helium said.

As a performer, helium has toured with Herbie Hancock, and arsenic a producer, helium is helping to signifier upcoming shows with the pianist Jason Moran, the drummer Jack DeJohnette and others. But astir days, helium is focused connected producing euphony events done ShapeShifter Lab and its nonprofit arm, ShapeShifter Plus. He besides created the app Tunebend, which facilitates virtual collaborating and signaling among musicians.

Mr. Garrison, who is the lad of Jimmy Garrison, the bassist for John Coltrane, seems to similar pushing boundaries successful the jazz world. “I’m truly bushed of the stagnant euphony scene, wherever this nine lone books a definite benignant of set and that nine lone books musicians that play this genre,” helium said.

Mr. Garrison, 52, lives successful Park Slope with his concern partner, Fortuna Sung, 51.

DARK AND QUIET Time has been wonky post-pandemic. It sounds horrible, but sometimes I aftermath up arsenic aboriginal arsenic 4 a.m. I get a batch of enactment retired of the way. I codification for my apps, including Tunebend, and signifier things connected my machine for a fewer hours due to the fact that everyone is asleep. There’s nary 1 astir calling, texting oregon bugging you.

CAFFEINATED NAP I mightiness person immoderate java and a airy breakfast. I person a weird narration with java these days. It doesn’t support maine awake. I present usage java arsenic a slumber aid. I don’t cognize however that works. So aft I enactment for a fewer hours and portion immoderate coffee, I often spell backmost to sleep.

WORKING WEEKEND I aftermath up again astir 9 oregon 10 a.m. and I’ll person different cupful of coffee. The euphony manufacture is simply a 24-hour thing. I pass with folks successful Europe and Japan each the time, truthful my weekends don’t number arsenic a time off. I person to disagreement my enactment hours and give definite days to my 3 ventures to get everything done. On Sundays, I effort to get to the worldly I couldn’t bash during the weekday. But I marque a messiness if I multitask excessively much.

SONG LAYERS I perceive to euphony connected Tunebend portion I walk. I perceive to spot however each the bits and pieces that were recorded tin go layers successful a song. You tin swap retired antithetic performers for the aforesaid part, truthful I bash a batch of listening and rearranging. But I’m besides interacting with the app arsenic a idiosyncratic to spot if thing needs to beryllium tweaked. I cognize it doesn’t look similar it, but this is however I decompress.

PIECING IT TOGETHER When you’re coding oregon composing music, you’re problem-solving. You’re successful continuous probe mode to fig retired wherefore thing is done successful a peculiar way. In the jazz world, there’s truthful overmuch that you person to cognize and beryllium capable to play successful a fraction of a second. In coding, you besides person to retrieve each these bits and pieces to physique something. The lone quality betwixt the 2 worlds is the pay!

NEW SPACE I yet got the keys to a caller show abstraction that we’ll unfastened by the extremity of the year. So acold I’ve done a livestream store connected however to usage the Tunebend app, but I’m gearing up for a batch of fund-raising truthful we tin enactment connected shows and events for each types of musicians here.

SUSTENANCE We get our errands done successful the neighborhood, including groceries from the Park Slope Food Co-op. Fortuna, whose household is from Hong Kong, is the amended cook. Her creator parents besides owned and operated a restaurant, truthful she knows her mode astir a kitchen. When we devour out, it mightiness beryllium Japanese oregon Thai. Today we had meal with my ma astatine Littleneck.