This is a really quick little jingle I did tonight for our first project for the class The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool. Made from sounds recorded during a little free improv sesh in class… trumpet, piano, guitar, flute, and drum sticks on bottle I believe were the sound sources.
I haven’t been doing a [...]

Pretty happy that David OReilly just won the first prize at the 2009 Berlinale for his animated short Please Say Something (first 5 episodes are above).  I’m not much of a follower of the festival circuit, but the Berlinale is a big one with big films and PSS is a little one made by one [...]

Audio Visual Etude # 2
I’m taking a class right now with Dennis Miller, a composer and animator who is a visiting professor at Brown this semester.   The class is called Sound and Image and the focus is on creating integrated audio-visual video pieces based on musical forms.  Here is a little experiment I did for [...]

finally…
One of my friends just released his debut solo album and it’s dirty good. Erik is a drummer, guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, bassist, computerist and a huge jackass for not dropping this on us earlier.  Erik plays guitar for NOMO and has also worked with a ton of other great mid-west artists in the past few [...]

Y.H. Chang is a duo that creates literary/musical flash art… simple but amazing, especially as a medium for web art. They use a lot of jazz music (I tend not to love jazz [although I like it a lot live]). But the tunes they use are some of the best of the genre [...]

Andreas and I are collaborating on a few big projects… I’ll let him tell you about them.

For a while I had a tough time embracing John Cage.  He is studied extensively in music composition courses, and his work is influential in literature, visual arts, and modern art theory so I feel like I know the guy personally (he died in 1992).  Last semester was no exception… I took four courses and [...]