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Today I happened to notice something I wrote back in 2010 at the end of a post about perfect pitch: “… perfect pitch is a tool which, depending on one’s perspective, may or may not be a benefit or liability to musicians and music in general, but is most likely irrelevant either way in the grand scheme of musical [...]
Hello world. Here’s an update of my current goings-on… plus the usual tangential forays into n’importe quoi. Verbum Sap Back in 2001, I recorded an album entitled Verbum Sap that I shelved for reasons that I won’t get into just yet. I’m excited to announce that I’m finally mixing it for release, with a planned drop [...]
I occasionally go through phases in which I want to check out a bunch of new bands, which I usually do by browsing the iTunes new release samples (who, by the way, are now offering 90-second samples for tracks that are least 2:30 long). Most of the songs I hear are so similar to so [...]
I’m a big fan of the often engaging and thought-provoking WNYC radio show podcast Radiolab. However, as the generally science-oriented subject matter tends to deal with things with which I have little personal experience, it’s hard for me to judge the soundness of the content. The loaded language of the presenters (“the results were… startling”) along with [...]
Here is an excerpt from Adam Payne’s new movie Damn Dirty Hippies, which I recently scored. This segment is an animation depicting a dream of one of the main characters, Katie. The song is Fell (For Two Musicians and a Computer), which appears on my album Den of Maniacs; the song is edited for the [...]
This site is currently under construction, with new color schemes, content (such as reviews of my new album Den of Maniacs, called “crazy soup” by one reviewer), and an improved, user-friendlier layout coming soon. I’ll be working on the site in my spare moments. In my other moments I’m writing a new album and working on some other projects [...]
Earlier today I posted Milton Babbitt’s “Who Cares if You Listen?” as an example of an avant-garde attitude that I don’t care for. As an antidote to that, here is a beautiful article by the visionary avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse (often referred to as the Father of Electronic Music). To me, this writing is an expression of [...]
