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June 8, 2010

Some thoughtful words from Lawrence Dillon

Filed under: Uncategorized - 08 Jun 2010

Lawrence Dillon recently put up this post on Sequenza 21.  It’s a short, but powerful assessment of the state of the orchestra today.  I am in the beginning stages of a new work for orchestra, and Dillon’s piece definitely …

May 16, 2010

upcoming performances with Mantra

Filed under: Uncategorized, interactive music, my events, my music - 16 May 2010

I am very excited to be working on a new piece with the percussion group Mantra. The piece is for 3 drumsets and gesture-controlled electronics (my fancy way of saying that one of the “sticks” at each …

February 10, 2010

Study no. 1 for amplified acoustic guitar

Filed under: Uncategorized, my music, new music, notation - 10 Feb 2010

[ Note: It has been a very busy couple of months, between finishing grad school apps, applying for residencies, festivals, and the like, and I have been beyond remiss in updating the old blog.  Apologies to my huge swaths of ...

August 11, 2009

a great post from Kyle Gann

Filed under: Uncategorized - 11 Aug 2009

The following was written by Kyle Gann, on his blog.  I liked it so much I decided to post the entire thing.  Here’s the original link: http://bit.ly/PQxhX

Words from a great composer:…

August 4, 2009

odd & lovely

Filed under: Uncategorized, new music - 04 Aug 2009

HAUSCHKA – Eltern // live in the Berger Kirche from realiction on Vimeo.

June 25, 2009

Loops

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Jun 2009

I live in Windsor Terrace, a neighborhood in Brooklyn southwest of Prospect Park.  My neighborhood is lovely – nice, well-kept buildings, lot of families who have lived here a long time (some, including my next door neighbor, for several generations), …

June 5, 2009

this is my site – my only site

Filed under: Uncategorized - 05 Jun 2009

dear all,

it has come to my attention that the URL of an old site of mine, which i canceled the registration for, came to be purchased by a purveyor of some pretty sickening filth.  what’s worse, the URL is a …

March 19, 2009

On Moonlight, Abstraction, and Cavemen

Filed under: Uncategorized, interactive music - 19 Mar 2009

A good friend of mine (not a musician but an avid music lover and one of the more careful listeners I know) recently wrote me the following e-mail as he was listening to Beethoven’s “Moonlight” sonata (I’ve edited it slightly …