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Berlin Day 3 and 4

In the afternoon of my second day here, we went to Alexanderplatz and surrounding areas (see previous post)…here is some of the stuff I didn’t get to… Art exhibit at former post office.(Click on any image …

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Berlin, Day 1 and 2…

(Click on any image to enlarge) I’m here, and stoked! My friend Phil Skaller (composer, pianist, and fellow PhD student in Integrative Studies at UCSD) and I have sublet an apartment in Berlin for August. It …

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An Artist, A bank, A withdrawal

I hope more artists start standing up to banks. *********************************************** $190,000 withdrawn in $20 billsIrate bank customer hits backBy LAURA BASHAM – The Nelson MailLast updated 13:02 23/07/2009 Defiant Mapua artist Roger Griffiths today made a …

Great Weekend…!

What a great weekend. Besides getting a lot of work done in the studio mixing Jeff Denson’s album, I had friends visiting to play gigs. Steuart Liebig, Bill Barret, Tony Atherton and Joe Berardi (The Mentones) …

Pu-erh Tea Markets hit hard…

Pu-erh tea is a joy for me, I drink it almost daily…and have for over ten years….so this news was shocking, from The Scotsman: *******************************Devastation left by Pu’er madness of green tea bubble Published Date: 15 …

A Pause for Pinter…

Having done incidental music/sounds for several of his plays, this saddened me, Harold Pinter was such a great playwright. But the Pinter Pause will live on. Or will it? (Read the link.) From the AP:Nobel Laureate …

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Tour-ette Syndrome: “Triumphantly weird, of course!”

Steuart and I at the Metro Gallery in BakersfieldPhoto by Kris Tiner “Triumphantly weird” is how the VC Reporter heralded my first return show in Ventura since leaving for school in San Diego. I like it: …

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Doomed?

In a lecture David Borgo gave today, he read the following passage about trumpet players: “The trumpet, or so we are given to believe, is a most athletic instrument, and most players, through sheer fatigue start …

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Answer to Job premier…

I’ve written a new work for choir and electronics titled Answer to Job. It will be premiered amidst works by Beethoven, Ives and Handel by the wonderful conductor Dr. Wyant Morton and the CLU Choir. They …