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”,…

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 54

– I went to HAMR – many thanks to Colin, Brian, Daewen, and Dan for having us all.  I started trying to do research into…

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 52

Probably 54? – I went to New York!  There are pictures. – Via Theremina, I have a crush on the paintings of Paul Morstad. –…

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 50

– Some great work about The Future:  Sensory Augmentation.  This is at least half the promise of AR for me, not just the Glass /…