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 […]