Live Linnstrument Improv January 15, 2017 | Leave a comment Last night, I had the pleasure of performing live at Wayne State University’s Faculty Electroacoustic Music Concert with a number of other wonderful composers. I did something a little different for me. Instead of having a nice, safely planned set, I decided to do a live improvisation with a Linnstrument. The piece turned out extremely… Read More
Three Preludes for Un-Specified Instrument and Computer December 26, 2016 | Leave a comment Yeah, I’m a slacker who hasn’t composed or gone to many festivals this last year. I know. I also have a really good excuse – I’ve been teaching at both Mott Community College and Oakland University. That tends to take up a lot of time, as did the CD project. But despite having all of my free… Read More
Concrete Oasis September 10, 2016 | Leave a comment I haven’t composed much this year. In fact, I’ve only written two pieces: Mechanical Landscapes (commissioned and premiered by East Lansing High School) and now, Concrete Oasis. The latter is a pretty big work though. Clocking in at just under 50 minutes, Concrete Oasis has been my main project for nearly a year. Generously sponsored by the Arts Council… Read More
Recordings! September 10, 2016 | Leave a comment Well, it’s come to this point – I’ve added a recordings page. Come check it out. Recordings… Read More
New Album March 12, 2016 | Leave a comment There have been some things in the works for a while now that I haven’t posted about thus far. Mostly this is because I wanted to make sure that they were completed before I started promoting them. Well, here’s the first. I’m very excited to announce that my piece Exploring the Remains of a Giant has been… Read More
A Brief Meditation on Templates January 21, 2016 | Leave a comment Recently, I’ve been pretty swamped with work. I’m teaching a Music Fundamentals course, helping with some grants, two major commissions, and of course, coding. So, I’ve been neglecting getting super deep into setting up the perfect Ableton Live session before jumping into the compositional process. So, in my spare time, I’ve been defining templates for… Read More
Infinite Apple ID Loop November 24, 2015 | Leave a comment ***UPDATE*** It looks like this may be a wider spread problem than I thought. I had it happen again on my iPhone this morning – apparently, this is a pretty serious/widespread issue that Apple is taking their sweet time to work on. Apple Care is no help. ***UPDATE*** So I’ve been stuck in an infinite loop of… Read More
What am I Doing? Oh, Yeah… That… October 22, 2015 | Leave a comment Well, as ominously promised, here’s the big announcement now that the press conference is over and the proverbial cat is out of the bag. I have two major projects that will be taking up the majority of my time for the next year. They are: I’m one of the 2016 recipients of the Arts Council… Read More
You say particles, I say granular October 11, 2015 | Leave a comment The last two weeks have been pretty busy. In one fell swoop, I drove (yes, from Lansing) to the International Computer Music Conference (yes, in Texas) and then to the Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance (yes Virginia, it was in… well… Virginia…). Great conferences, lot of great pieces, great people, and great post-concert discussions of aesthetics/compositional techniques/orchestration/coding (pronounced… Read More
Mini-Me and the Ramones September 22, 2015 | Leave a comment The last three pieces I’ve written have been miniatures (Isomorphic Haiku, Mind the Gaps, and Separation Anxiety). All are in the sub three minute category. I’m not embracing a Ramones style approach to composition – in fact, my current projects will both be quite a lot longer – but it has got me thinking a bit about… Read More