About this site
This Electronic Press Kit was conceived, designed, and is maintained by me in collaboration with Anthropic Claude. The division of labour is straightforward: I am the Webmaster; Claude is the Webslave.
All content — photographs, biographical text, performance descriptions, and editorial decisions — originates with me. Claude handles structural design, code generation, and site maintenance on instruction.
The content is maintained in a private GitHub repository. Claude indicated that using the public web interface to a public repository would be risky and difficult to trace that actions were performed correctly.
When I need to update the site, I edit the files using the oXygenXML editor and add/commit/push changes to GitHub as usual.
When I need Claude to update the site, I start a new Claude conversation in a project with preset instructions describing some points that have been saved over time. I then download the repository tarball snapshot and initiate the conversation asking Claude to review the existing content.
Using prose I ask Claude to modify the site and he confirms all of the details before continuing and making the required changes to the files.
When changes are completed, Claude offers me two items:
I download the tarball into the base directory, untar the changes overwriting the old files, then delete the tarball. GitHub then helps me understand exactly where the changes are being made.
I then commit the changes using the copy/paste add/commit/push string composed by Claude.
The site is built with Hugo, a static site generator. Source files are maintained in a private GitHub repository under version control. Deployment is automated via GitHub Actions, which builds the Hugo site and pushes the generated output to a virtual private server hosted at Crane Softwrights Ltd.
The domain GKHmusic.ca is a Canadian registration served from the same VPS infrastructure as CraneSoftwrights.com, managed through WHM and cPanel.
Lightbox functionality is provided by GLightbox. Typography is set in Cormorant Garamond and Source Serif 4, served via Google Fonts. The section dividers reproduce a photograph of the Longido-sourced guitar strap belonging to Nashipai, Ken’s custom 12-string guitar.
The colour palette is drawn from two sources: the earthy brown tones of my calling card, and the deep navy of the patterned drapery used as a backdrop for photographs of Nashipai.
The decorative section separation motif — geometric symbols in the mud cloth tradition — is taken directly from material sourced in Longido, Tanzania.
The design aims to be understated and honest: a performing musician’s professional presence, not a marketing/sales exercise.