New Music Scrapbook
Fri Jul 16 13:21:25 -0600 2010
New Music Scrapbook is a new local project that distributes interviews of and music by Minneapolis composers. I've sincerely enjoyed listening to the posts so far. It's a real treat to hear my colleagues share their reasons for making music. Colin Holter and I talked a few weeks ago, and the interview is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, July 21. We discussed ethics and meaning in music, movement, rock climbing, earWorm, and much more. Head over and check it out!
Additional news: earWorm will be performing several gigs in the Twin Cities in late September, including the Spark Festival. Stay tuned.
earWorm in March & April
Fri Jul 16 13:20:39 -0600 2010
March 7-14, earWorm will be performing around Indiana and giving workshops on Deep Listening, computer music software and techniques, Arabic improvisation. More details to come.
April 29 - May 1, earWorm will play various venues in the Twin Cities, including Inver Hills Community College on the 29th and Black Dog Cafe on the 30th.
The worms are warming it up, and a second recording is in the works. If you still don't have our debut CD, you can find it everywhere you might expect online as well as at any earWorm show.
RenegadeEnsemble Performs Dance #1
Tue Jan 12 15:58:37 -0700 2010
This Saturday, January 16 at 1pm in Ultan Recital Hall in Minneapolis, RenegadeEnsemble will perform and record the winning works from their call for scores. In addition, Solange Guillaume will perform she quietly enters and leaves the fray by Joshua Clausen and the whole ensemble will play my Dance #1. I would love to see you there!
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Ritual #2 Video
Thu Dec 10 15:33:44 -0700 2009
Back in February at the Spark Festival, John De Haan and I performed my Ritual #2. Video and audio of the performance are posted on the Spark 2009 Documentation blog. Enjoy!
Word on the street is that Spark 2010 will be in October, and the call for works will go out in February with an April 1 deadline.
Ardour/Inkscape X11 Font Bug fix
Wed Nov 04 20:29:33 -0700 2009
For Mac folks out there who use a lot of open source apps like me, this may come in handy.
I use Ardour as my primary D.A.W. / sequencer. It's an amazing app. It's especially amazing considering the cost (FREE) as compared to similar applications (typically around $500 — per version upgrade), and thus you should use it and donate often to its creator. Paul Davis and other developers have been super kind and helpful in working out why it was crashing for me (and not many other people) in the past week or so — an incredibly rare situation in Ardour's several-year track record of stability.
Someone else reported an issue similar to mine during the summer. If fluteguy9283 followed up, there's no record of it. However, over the past few days, I talked to folks on IRC, and Paul sent me an unreleased version to test, which didn't solve the problem.
Then—open source community to the rescue—cth103 asked me to try something he/she had seen referenced in another open source project, Inkscape:
rm -r ~/.fontconfig/*
It worked like a charm. If you're getting unexplained Ardour crashes for versions 2.8.2 - 2.8.4 on a Mac after the splash screen is up for a few seconds, try removing files in that directory using the Terminal (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
By the way, if you're looking for audio software recommendations, I use ChucK for most of my synthesis / live processing work these days.
Trio of earWorm Twin Cities Gigs
Wed Oct 21 19:29:04 -0600 2009
earWorm plays three gigs this week in the Twin Cities. Come check us out!
Thursday Oct. 22, 7:30pm, Inver HillsCancelled- Friday Oct. 23, 8pm, Black Dog Cafe in St. Paul
- Saturday Oct. 24, 9pm, Cafe Maude in Minneapolis
Support Net Neutrality
Fri Oct 16 14:06:09 -0600 2009
Sign the petition for Net Neutrality at Save the Internet.
earWorm interview on KFAI
Thu Aug 13 13:36:42 -0600 2009
Tonight on KFAI, Janis Lane-Ewart will interview James Holdman and me on Collective Eye about earWorm's debut CD release. You can listen at 10:30pm Central or check out the archived show for the next two weeks.
Renewed Focus, California Summer
Tue Apr 21 23:36:24 -0600 2009
With the Eric Honour concerts successfully complete, I feel newly free and focused. I'm performing with earWorm in Indiana at the end of May and will be ramping up work on Ritual #1 (the dissertation). Also, some new ideas for electronic works have been percolating. Now that I'm an ASCAP and BMI licensed presenter, I plan to hold concerts as often as I can manage, especially performing my own music.
Also, on a personal side note, Solange and I will be in the San Francisco Bay Area during much of June and July. Let me know about any excellent performances we should attend!
New sound doodle: cuchara23
Mon Apr 13 17:36:10 -0600 2009
Gearing up for Eric Honour this week. Hope to see lots of you at Intermedia Arts and St Olaf CC. In addition, I've posted a new little sound doodle called cuchara23. It's at the top of the audio page.
