Entries from July 2009

July 27, 2009

New Music Monday!

I’ve added a couple of additions to the Music page. First is High Fructose, a piece I wrote for Joshua Roman‘s Seattle Town Hall concert series. It’s an odd piece, very difficult (though not intentionally so!), and the quartet rocked the hell out of it. The piece is about the composition process, as I attempted [...]

July 16, 2009

Preshish Moments – Suddenly Appearing

One of the pieces I did for Alarm Will Sound‘s upcoming shows at Le Poisson Rouge (6:30 and 10:30pm, next Wednesday, 7/22/09) is an arrangement of a piece by Bay Area breakcore artist Preshish Moments called whydobirds. I had been wanting to do a track of his for a while, for a variety of reasons: [...]

July 14, 2009

New site!

So I’ve moved everything from Blogger over here to my new WordPress site and set up some new stuff. The largest addition is the music page. There are a ton of new tracks and recordings up, spanning the last five years or so. If there’s anything I left out that you’d like me to put [...]

July 12, 2009

"The more brutal it is, the better" – David T. Little

Yo, check out this awesome story in the NJ Star-Ledger about badass composer, and friend, David T. Little: “I grew up very much outside of the classical tradition, not really knowing that it existed, not knowing that composers existed or that people still wrote music,” Little reflects. At first, classical music, particularly Mozart, felt foreign [...]

July 12, 2009

Auto-tune the News 6

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July 7, 2009

Rhapsody in Blue Remix

Hey folkies, I’ll be performing a live remix of Rhapsody in Blue tomorrow (Wednesday, July 8th – 6:30) @ The Greene Space in NYC for the 85th anniversary of WNYC. If you’re around please come check it out, tickets are FREE! :) If for some reason you cannot make it – out of town, in [...]