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New website design

After a good deal of work and assistance from my webmaster Rob Mosher, I’ve completed a new website design, based on the Responsive theme by Emil Uzelac. It should now work across all computer browsers, smartphones, and tablets. Check it

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Experiment: Can I Completely Stop Choosing What Music I Listen To?

In a previous post, I discussed the difference in our reactions to music when we choose it (active selection) versus when someone else chooses it for us (passive selection). I claimed that the endless choice we experience thanks to Internet

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Searching vs. Finding

A recent article in Slate by Jan Swafford got me thinking about one of the major distinctions between information on the Internet and off the Internet. As I’ve been arguing for years, the way we interact with art has fundamentally

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New Website Design

The culmination of a lot of planning, evaluating, and work, I’ve now got a new look for my website. There are still a few minor tweaks to be made, but the majority is there. Now that this project is completed,

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No Extra Notes—Podcast Interview

Composer Richard Zarou recently did a podcast interview with me, for his blog, No Extra Notes. No Extra Notes is a weekly podcast about up-and-coming composers. The interview deals with why I write music, some of the inspirations behind my

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AudioMicro: Musical Value Online

I was intrigued last month when I received a message from website AudioMicro.com asking if I was interested in a link exchange. They seem to be an interesting mix of a variety of different musical “services” rolled into one, and

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Lend Me Your Ears

I just wanted to draw attention to colleague and friend Lisa Bielawa’s new blog, which I think is a good example of the kinds of things composers should be doing more to stay in the public eye. Lisa won the

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New Music and Online Tools

For a genre that claims to be part of the cutting edge, the avant-garde/new classical music has been relatively slow to adopt online tools. I wonder about some of the ways we might improve the situation. As I’ve written about

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Updated Performances, CV, MySpace

Now that the Arditti res­i­dency is over and I have fin­ished the numer­ous grants/applications/papers that were due over the course of Feb, I have made some long-overdue updates. Cleaned up my MySpace page too. I’ll post some new record­ings there

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Gaudeamus Music Week

Things have been very busy, and I haven’t had the chance to do any site updates between teach­ing, taking classes, and trav­el­ling for workshops/performances. I was recently in Montréal for the Ensem­ble contemporain’s work­shop, and I leave next week for

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