Andrew showed up bright and early (5 am!!!!) He wanted to save a night on the hotel…turns out our “patron,” Roosevelt University was picking up the bill for all this stuff…he could’ve got there a day …
Choir Boys: Eight Days in Chicago-4.8-4.10.2006
I love Chicago! So when my friend Don Malone invited me to come and play his final recital (retiring after THIRTY-One years) and teach some Master Classes, I said, “of course!” Even better, he had me …
Dostoevsky and Tea….
A friend sent me this quote: “I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I really want is that you should all go to hell. That is what I want. I …
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Me? I love Duchamp….
It never ceases to amaze me how people get worked up over art. Here, we have a guy attacking Duchamp’s Fountain.http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0609,saltz,72298,13.html First he pee’d on it in 1993. (After all, it is a urinal.) Now, the …
and more tea…
OK, one more link on tea and aging…and the prevention of a mental decline… Click Here It totally makes sense: If tea helps prevent arteriosclerosis , most commonly thought of in relationship to heart disease, would …
Tea and more…
Many of you know of my love of tea. Particularly white teas, green teas, and pu erh teas. Well, in a lovely morning of drinking organic Tuocha and doing some delightful searching on the internet for …
Saturday Night at Spark…
Wow. A memorable evening. Great music, particularly by Ben Nevile and Andrew Pask and then by Randy Jones. Ben and Andrew did a trance inducing set of interlocking polyrhythms and modal melodies, whereas Randy got more …
Also…
Many of you that know me, know that for years I have wanted a granular synthesis footpedal for my electronics…Now that I’ve gone max/msp I have one. One of the gentlemen that I’ve met on this …
Friday night at Spark…
Another great day. The highlight for me was DEFINITELY Gregory Taylor and Tom Hamer performing music with Mark Henrickson doing video improvisation. Gregory was using Radial to create gorgeous loops and textures with Tom playing, among …