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…

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…