i'm very busy these days and i can't think of a good E topic i want to write about, so i'm going to cheat and use E to share one of my favorite indoor drumline shows ever because of their use of Steve Reich. The final performance isn't online likely because WGI is pretty harsh about that sort of thing, but here's a final runthrough before they ( Read more... )

i ended up shaking Stanton Moore's hand last night since an acquaintance of mine who works for Evans knows him. He had a particular sort of aura about him that i get out of a lot of famous or pseudo-famous people when i meet them in what i think a lot of people interpret as a lack of true genuine presence that i interpret more as a degree of ( Read more... )

There are two facts that you need to know when you go to see a Plaid concert. One is that Ed and Andy are boring to watch because they're not performers. Two is that it doesn't matter because they still put out an absolutely amazing show.

This is the fourth time i've seen them live, this time in a very nice atmosphere of a bar/club called ( Read more... )

so i'll be in PA in roughly a month from now. the main purpose is to see Plaid play in concert.

i'm limiting the people I see because i don't have a lot of time there and there are key people that I want to spend time with that I don't spend nearly enough with. But if anyone wants to do some sort of groupy sort of thing on friday night or ( Read more... )

so some reprioritizing is in order.

I just added another big thing to my project plate, pseudo-officially hopping on board with Galaxy Interactive. The project timeline for their debut product is an aggressive one and happens to be somewhat smack dab in the middle of when i also need to get everything else done.

As in, i now have about five ( Read more... )

The first time i listened to the album, i was somewhat underwhelmed by it. Part of it was the anticipation; the album was supposed to come out in 2009 and kept on getting pushed off for reasons that were never disclosed. Part of it was that if you're not paying close attention, it doesn't seem like the album offers anything particularly new, ( Read more... )

so in my nienteForte concert, i programmed and played a piece called "Three Songs" by Michael Mauldin. I put the performance up on youtube. Michael apparently saw it, and he sent me a package with two of his CDs and a nice note saying thanks for putting it up on youtube.

pretty awesome, though i feel kind of self-conscious because i felt like ( Read more... )

on friday night i decided after i was done cleaning and prepping for the saturday poker game that never happened that i would try to get a jump start on writing the new Tulane exercise packet. It was the first time i would delve into percussion mapping in the new version of Finale we had just upgraded to in the office.

three hours later, i gave ( Read more... )

april's almost here. kind of weird because usually when i take stock of a particular time period it's to say, "boy time is flying by", but the this time around, the new year has moved very slowly. not in a bad way at all, it's just interesting.

april is going to be rather busy for me, and i'm looking forward to it:

- april 1st - spirit bell ( Read more... )

def leppard and nirvana were fairly notorious for having a singing style that required you to have some sort of specialized deciphering ability to understand what the eff they were saying.

are they any current bands out that have that sort of trend? not that i listen to a lot of current music, but i can't think of any off of the top of my head ( Read more... )