thor vs. the internet

At work, we listen to a lot of music from the internet:  either a paid streaming service, or YouTube.  At home, I listen to lots…

romancing the throne

I finished a mixtape about love, for a friend’s wedding.  It is in fact the Mixtape About Love, the canonical, best one, for all time… at…

week 71

Things from the internet: – blend.io is almost my dream app, in terms of being able to make my own custom mixdown of any song….

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…

week 69.5: elvis by elvis

Ryan Groves and I presented a piece of music at ISMIR this year:  he sang two Elvis Costello tunes, and I synthesized the backing music…

week 69: ISMIR

I went to ISMIR, and presented a paper about how DJs select and order tracks, which went pretty well.  Ryan Groves and I also ‘performed’…

week 68

It was a good week for things. – My man Nathan Friedman came up to Boston to see a concert of Chaya Czernowin pieces, including…

week 67.3333

– Went to Tufts’ Computer Science Hackathon, as an Echo Nester.  Built The Feminest, which tells you about the gender makeup of a band.  The…

more things

I survived a bachelor party in Portland:  I somehow bought neither records nor books, which is a minor miracle.  Other neat things have, however, been…

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…