Archive for the 'acoustic' Category

A question of instrumentation.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

I’m recording next week with friends Psyche Dunkhase and Sam Gathman to document and release the music we composed for Nicole Dagesse’s show Of Bodies And Branches! It will be great. I’ll post at least samples of the recordings here. On a related note, I composed this entry as part of a future project with [...]

My computer died.

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Due to technical difficulties (i.e. a fried logic board) my computer has been retired. I’m looking in to what to do with it. Luckily, a certain someone reminded me that I ought to back up my things, and I did so just hours before my computer stopped working. I have a full backup of all [...]

My new cello work, and Dovekins recordings!

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Last Wednesday, Cassye Dunkhase (a graduate cellist at CU and also a good friend of mine) debuted my new work, Glass House II, for cello and electronics. The concert went very, very well. Cassye did a beautiful job with the performance and it was well received by the crowd. I am in talks with both [...]

A distracting edit on sattelite radio.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

While I was in Oregon a couple of weeks ago with my family, I was tuned in to my mother’s satellite radio, listening to the classical station (I had been listening to the Top 40 station, but the I realized they literally only play about 40 songs) when a rare recording came on. It was [...]

Recording a harp.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

I’ve been listening to Joanna Newsom’s “The Milk-Eyed Mender” (amazon) and was curious about how the harp was recorded. I did a little research and found that the engineer/producer was Noah Georgeson, and that he’s also done a couple Devendra Banhardt albums and a solo album. I was not so much impressed with the sound, [...]

Dovekins!

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

I’ve been playing music recently with some amazing musicians in a band called the Dovekins. We hail from all over the Front Range (Blake is from Boulder, Laura is from Denver, I’m from Boulder/Fort Collins, and Stelth is from Fort Collins). We’ve been playing some shows around the greater Denver area, mostly the Boulder Farmer’s [...]

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