Under the weathered awning, the vagrant’s joints began To ache, hiding from the rain, he scratched his Roughened, feeble knees and cast his sunken eyes Up and down the thoroughfare. Storm subsiding, and Then a biting wind. He had sat there long enough To know a cold snap when he felt it, twitched his Hirsute [...]
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“Debussy once left a concert hall in the middle of a Beethoven symphony, complaining ‘Oh no, now he starts to develop.’” — As reported in Eero Tarasti’s Signs of Music: A Guide to Musical Semiotics
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Considering that my last post was in April, I feel I have a bit of explaining to do. The composition of my graduate thesis at the University of Oregon, a large work for orchestra entitled Suite of Roads, absolutely consumed all of my time until about May 25th. Since then I have been working at [...]
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“Well, in Oregon we like to be different, so we set aside an entire week to honor trees. The Oregon State Legislature has decreed that the first full week of April shall be designated as Arbor Week.” Click repeatedly in the box below to generate some random arbor beauty.
Although it has been in use for over a month now, I have failed to mention it here on my own blog: ECCE (the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble), the new music ensemble which I currently direct and conduct, has a newly refurbished website that is so hot I think my own servers will fry if [...]
This is worth reiterating: Beach rocks jutting up from liquid churn pebbles in the sea Cheek bones beneath my lover’s face What are they to me? Hard things shape and hold in place The softness of the earth. Bones and stones support the shape That rends all beauty’s birth. — John H. Richards, June 19, [...]
This morning, sitting around the breakfast table sucking down homemade blueberry-strawberry-banana-cranberry all fruit smoothies (is there anything better?) my family discovered a fun new pastime. It is a version of family feud, reincarnated as a lens into contemporary culture and its uses of search engines. Most web browsers come with a built-in search bar that [...]
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One of the first artists I discovered when I ventured into the realm of computational and generational art was Erik Natzke. I have since been following his blog and eagerly awaiting the arrival of some recent work. Summer dreams do come true. In his recent post about Color Mining he also pointed to a flickr [...]
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I’m usually not too keen on simply referencing work posted on other sites and linking to it from my own blog, but a recent installation I’ve come across is just too good to pass up. Meet Marco Brambilla: a video artist and filmmaker who was noticed by the owner of the Standard Hotel in New [...]
