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…
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’…
It was a good week for things. – My man Nathan Friedman came up to Boston to see a concert of Chaya Czernowin pieces, including…
– Went to Tufts’ Computer Science Hackathon, as an Echo Nester. Built The Feminest, which tells you about the gender makeup of a band. The…
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…
– I went to New York! I only bought two records this time: Kraftwerk and Talking Heads. Also saw the NY Phil, who are pretty…
– 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…
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…
….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…
I survived Sound & Music Computer 2013! Quite literally: I got God’s own stomach bug, spent 18 hours in bed, and then flew / fasted…