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Category Archives: Thoughts
Sticking it to the “Old” Man OR Classical Revolution: The Status of “Art” Music in Contemporary Culture
In 1897 a man by the name of Ransom E. Olds embraced the concept of the horseless carriage, and decided to invest a substantial amount of his funds into founding a company that he decided would proudly bear his name: Old Motor Works General Motors purchased the company in 1908 and after taking a branding [...]
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Memorial to November 5th
On Guy Fawkes day, we had no furniture To burn. Nothing but an old piano That we found beneath the old rock church. We lifted it, the four of us, groaning From the mildewed weight, and placed it in The parking lot. Bill went for papers. I trumped upon the keys. He was four Tones [...]
Big Bubbles: An Unstoppable Obsession
This summer I fully gave in to what was an inevitable obsession: the creation of big soap bubbles. When I was young my family had a Bubble Thing. Where and why we got it, I don’t know, but considering the relative lack of humidity in the Salt Lake City atmosphere, the days when we could [...]
Nobility and Narrative
With each passing day I find myself increasingly convinced that storytelling will save the world.
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A Three-year-old's blow to the autonomous artwork
“In Reading and Understanding, Roger Schank tells us [a] story: John loved Mary but she didn’t want to marry him. One day, a dragon stole Mary from the castle. John got on top of his horse and killed the dragon. Mary agreed to marry him. They lived happily ever after. In this book Schank is [...]
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More Poetry . . . Nature and Love
Sunset on the Hill Slowly, slowly, the sunset, still, Casts long, long shadows, deep blue, silent, Casts moving shadows behind the hill Where we sit, still, and watch. Cool Clouds, streaked with hot red rays, Slide in the silent autumn sky. Cool clouds are cast as shadows of our days. They slide together, red and [...]
Love and Nature: Poetry in My Veins
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 I’ve been reading through a collection of [...]
Natzke: Music to My Eyes
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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Hiatus and Now I'm Back In Action
After a maddening month of school, concerts, composing, and festivals, the pervasive busyness is now past for a time, which means that this blog is back in action. I’ve racked up a slew of subjects to write about in the meantime ranging from data visualization to the death of Michael Jackson, not to mention the [...]
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Similes are Simple but Metaphors are Masterful