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…

week 64 or so

– I broke ground on code for my Master’s thesis, which is sort of strange thing to say.  Thanks to the wonders of PhoneGap, things…

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…

what we talk about

….when we talk about beethoven:  I finished a piece about Beethoven!  You should try it out.  Find someone with Opinions about the Seventh Symphony, and…

stockholm

I survived Sound & Music Computer 2013!  Quite literally:  I got God’s own stomach bug, spent 18 hours in bed, and then flew / fasted…

SMC, re, do

I’m going to SMC! If you need me, I’ll be in Stockholm talking about mappings on iOS, and drinking fine Swedish aquavit. I also (finally)…

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”,…