I Rock (a little) |
Getting a little busier on the violinning side of things. Some of my activities these days:
1. Just did some recording with composer Chris Houston, for his score to the Aurora Theatre production of T...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:49:00 GMT |
Dan Morris |
Dan "the Bird Man" Morris passed away recently without warning. One day he was walking around as if everything were normal... the next, he was in a coma. Not long ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:54:00 GMT |
Jesus-in-the-Box |
We were lost here at the music analysis lab at Pandora Media. Lost, I tell you.
Lost in the Godless, fetid swamp of secular music: forsaken by Folk, ruined by Rap, mauled by Metal.
We analysts, who ...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:28:00 GMT |
Ten Years with Noe Venable |
Modern singer songwriters strike me as an ephemeral sort of creature. Specializing in an art form the output of which lasts roughly four minutes, their careers seem similarly compressed and abbreviate...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:18:00 GMT |
Peace Through Superior Monetary Policy |
War has always been a horribly expensive undertaking.
There are essentially two ways to pay for a war.
The first way is through direct taxation. The government does this by demanding a very high per...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:35:00 GMT |
Odessa Chen Saves Humanity |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse came to the CD Release Concert for Odessa Chen's new record "The Ballad of Paper Ships". The Riders exploded through the doors of the Chapel of the San Francisco U...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:58:00 GMT |
Odessa Chen and the End of the World |
Some things in life happen with such regularity that we take them to be nearly inseparable from life itself. The sun rises in the East and sets in the West; leaves fall in Autumn and bloom in the Spr...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:08:00 GMT |
Clifford Brown is the Devil |
Mads Tolling is trying to teach me to play jazz.
Once every few weeks, I rent a Scion from City CarShare and make my way from the Oakland 'hood' up the winding road to his estate. I pass the ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:24:00 GMT |
Musical Discoveries |
I have an interesting job. I work as a music analyst for Pandora, the third largest internet radio service in the world--and, I'm certain, the one which plays by far the most music by unknown ar...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:32:00 GMT |
The Power of Irrationality, or A Basic Outline of My Career |
I shouldn't be able to play the violin.
You're supposed to start well under the age of 10. I don't think I had private lessons until my teens, and I actually quit before leaving high scho...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:22:00 GMT |
