(Click any image to enlarge) Fall in San Diego!(Is gone…) This quarter flew by…and I still haven’t taken my qualifying exams….BUT I had a great time: touring with David Borgo (KaiBorg) with gigs in Santa Barbara …
New Media Reading Group…
Friends regularly ask what I am reading here at UCSD, so I thought this might interest some of you. A friend and I started a reading group this quarter for new media theory….here are the texts, …
Amsterdam 2009, Day 8-20
What an amazing time this has been in Amsterdam. Highlights (but not limited to!): playing and hanging with Michael Moore and Michael Vatcher, playing/recording with Anne La Berge, hanging with Mary Oliver, Trevor Grahl, Susanna Von …
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Berlin 2009, Day 16-18
With Roy Carroll, post-caffeine in Prenzlauer Berg. I met Roy when we both were playing at the Sparks Festival at UMN, Minneapolis. An awesome musician from Ireland, who has settled down in Berlin. Mostly studying, or …
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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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Vision Festival…New York Weekend…
(Phil saying, “Kaiser! Get rid of the camera!”) What a wonderful weekend in New York. Phil Skaller and I went to perform a live soundtrack to Bill Brand’s film, Angular Momentum, at the Vision Festival. I …
Passings this year…Bobby Fischer, musicians in the New York Times…
Michael Paterniti has written an engaging piece on Bobby Fischer in the New York Times. It begins: “Before he was secretly buried on a dark winter morning in a lonely Icelandic churchyard at the age of …
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 …