week 70

Things from the internet: Rolling Jubilee:  Important, still important.  (I also realized this week that Twitter has been a key influence in pushing me more…

many things

– I went to New York!  I only bought two records this time:  Kraftwerk and Talking Heads.  Also saw the NY Phil, who are pretty…

summer music: feminist edition

I discovered, in March, that my music collection has a problem.  It’s this: No, not the Swedish House Mafia per say – although I have…

Not Your Parent’s Disco: The DJ Set as Opera.

It is one of the great cliches of DJing that the best of the best “take you on a journey”, and “tell you a story”,…

week 56

Nothing happened this week.  But I’ve been reading, listening, and working: – What We Talk About When We Talk About Beethoven can now do basic chord…

week 55

– I wrote a bunch about nightclub layout back in January. Last week, I went back to Zuzu, in Boston…and found that things had changed….

retrieving music

If you need me in November, I’ll be in Brasil, talking or postering about the importance of timbre in selecting and ordering tracks in DJ…

week 53

I need to send some serious props to the students and performers at NEC’s tragically named “Sick Puppy” (http://www.sicpp.org/) summer new music week.  Despite the…

week 51

– I am delighted to say that the most prosaic paper I will ever write (‘A Quantitative Review of Mappings in Musical iOS Applications’) has…

week 49

Probably more like 52:  ah well. – I am trying to only listen to music written by female artists or by groups that are at…