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February 22, 2011

moving parts on sound is art

Filed under: Uncategorized - 22 Feb 2011

Margaret Noble was kind enough to post another clip of mine on her fabulous site, Sound Is Art. If you haven’t had the pleasure, check it out. She curates really beautifully.

February 7, 2011

Standing Water on Sound is Art

Filed under: Uncategorized - 07 Feb 2011

I’m psyched to see some of my work up on one of my favorite sites, Margaret Noble’s Sound Is Art. Margaret posts a new sound about twice a week, and they’re always great. I’ve discovered a lot …

December 6, 2010

my musical lineage

Filed under: Uncategorized - 06 Dec 2010

For fun, today, I traced my musical lineage back a bit. I’d like to do this in a more serious way some day, actually do a bit of real research. The only logic here is that these are …

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:…

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 …