Taking care of my mother-in-law’s cat for the month while she is in France. She erratically howls in the night, wanting something but I don’t know what it is. She […]

Alone in a room, the target is entered differently than when there is an audience present even just one person and the experience changes. Something about the energy of others, […]

Sure are a lot of stand-offs since returning to academia, especially the PhD which commenced in 2020. After two weeks into the first mandatory research course, everyone in my class […]

Losing close friends is always hard but at the same time death is the great reminder to enjoy one’s impermanence. I have a friend who is about 80ish and at […]

The new song is about the space where you know something but to say it out loud will have ramifications one does not necessarily want to be responsible for. The […]

Some colleagues often go on about the threat of Chat GPT. I do not feel the end is nigh. Maybe because we musicians adjusted to sampled instruments twenty-five years ago? […]

The interview I did with Andy Newmark came out today in the current issue of ImprovNotes. https://mailchi.mp/cd8beb0aacd2/july_2023_improvnotes?e=7559aa635d

Jamie Ward sent me a song that was done as an AI experiment using a Paul McCartney filter on his voice (something like that?) It sounded Beatle-esque or at least […]

For my daughter’s birthday she wanted to see the new Spiderman film with her friends and so we did. I found its messaging as engaging as American Idol, especially the […]