Composing

The Bernard Herrmann Composer Kit is out. It costs about five hundred US dollars and allows people who call themselves composers to assemble pieces using sampled Herrmann signatures and present […]

Minds are a game and you are both player and the actual game. Both at once.The improviser once believed discipline meant domination, outthinking the instrument, forcing coherence where none wanted […]

I set myself to the ordering of two pieces from many years ago. They are founded upon the ostinato, and too often I left their progress to chance. Useful once […]

Heard about sweet potato toast, I must try soon. Made hummus today with the addition of carrots – surprisingly creamy and buttery. In the instrumental piece in G I have […]

My ring tone is the first three seconds of Wednesday Morning by the Beatles. Everyone smiles when it goes off. My alarm is another ringtone – Get Ready by the […]

sacrum hurts, what to do, morning and night stretch but maybe the stretching prolongs it. so many choices in a dream. life is a dream, obvious no? too many events […]

A student handed in work late because she was on “vacation”. I asked where. She said a cruise. I asked was it a good time? She said yes because it’s […]

There are many typos in my mother’s emails but that’s ok. She is in her mid 90s, lost the vision in one eye and remaining eye is fading. Recently vowels […]

Watching another interview with Katherine Birbalsingh in the UK. I love the school she runs in London and the inner city story behind it. Amusing how things eventually travel in […]

The new songs. One about a long ago drug misadventure, one about a Jan Cox expression, “there’s one brain and two of us”, one about Don Juan’s allegory in the […]