2016-03-19 18:53
In the Wings documents a peak creative period in my life, between 2004 and 2008. It will remain here as an archive, ad infinitum. Find out what I'm currently up to at my personal website Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Generally speaking, a composition is something to which I cannot make dinner. A composition cannot be an accompaniment to chopping, stirring, tossing, roasting, waiting, watching, plating.G… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Sidecar presented the final performance of The Children's Hour last night at Gallerie Icosahedron in New York. How did such a nice big piano end up in an art gallery?! (Don't be fooled by… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I have clocked far too many three and four and two in the mornings recently. (Four is really the worst.) The upcoming performances in New York generate excitement and nervousness, and so I… Read More
2012-09-16 19:34
"Does anyone know a bit of music terminology that we use when a minor-key piece ends with--whoa!--a brilliant major chord?"(These are the thinkiest of students. Brows furrowed and lips were… Read More
2012-09-16 19:26
In the next few weeks, I intend to make music:as if driving on country backroads without a mapas if never wearing a watchas if knitting without a patternas if jumping out of a swing, age 32 Read More
2012-09-16 19:22
I got promoted! I'm now assistant to the conductor at Mission Dolores. And, someone donated a harpsichord to Mission Dolores. It is beautiful. It makes me long for a patron, so that I migh… Read More
2012-09-15 16:18
Or, more accurately, how Sidecar ended this summer's "vacation." We built transmitters with the folks of Neighborhood Public Radio out at the Headlands Center for the Arts! And gave a litt… Read More
2012-09-11 15:18
The light bulbs always go off when I'm swimming. Today [stroke, stroke, stroke] it dawned on me that each video piece I make is simply a children's storybook. Yes! They are little books t… Read More
2012-09-11 15:13
This was a bittersweet year. I recognized more clearly where my musical passions and ambitions lie, and I endured a few melodramas along the way. Here's a year-end top-ten:1. my first… Read More
2012-09-02 23:14
The video projects and Ives songs are all folded and packed away after their travels, and life, especially my work on visual art, continues at a rather third-date pianissimo. It's the quiet… Read More
2008-12-29 18:23
Halloween's ok, I guess, but November 1st reigns as one of my favorite days of the year. It is All Souls' Day--I hush saying the three words--and this year, I am pleased to announce that I w… Read More
2008-12-27 00:05
Somehow it's reassuring...when art imitates life: Giselle portrays the tale of a young peasant girl who is driven to madness and an untimely death upon discovering that her true love has… Read More
2008-01-28 07:01
I've sung this song, but I'll sing it again...So long, it's been good to know yuh;So long, it's been good to know yuh;So long, it's been good to know yuh.This dusty old dust is a-gettin' my… Read More
2008-01-23 20:49
Something struck me recently about people who are experts in their field: they make decisions immediately, without a second thought, and those decisions tend to be right on. I observe the… Read More
2008-01-18 08:58
"You can try to live your life on pirated 10 second audio clips...but it's hard turning a penny into a million dollars."I like to pillage the internet for audio samples. Ducati has recently… Read More
2008-01-04 15:27
Gustavo Santaolalla, RonrocoVan Morrison, "Brown Eyed Girl"Serge Gainsbourg, "Bonnie and Clyde"various songs from George and Ira Gershwin in HollywoodPiano Sonata in e minor Hob. XVI: 34, Fr… Read More
2007-11-28 01:56
...USE the correlatives between what you do as a musician/performance artist and acting. Acting is a very practical, dirty, messy sort of art, unlike the structure and notation of music and… Read More
2007-11-21 03:35
The Smiths, "William It Was Really Nothing""Leavin' on a Jet Plane"creaking swing sets in Central ParkColeman Hawkins, "Wherever There's a Will, Baby"the roar of the motos at MotoGP, Valenci… Read More
2007-11-17 06:27
now is a shipwhich captain amsails out of sleepsteering for dream--e.e. cummings Read More
2007-11-17 06:24
Gentle lady, do not singSad songs about the end of love;Lay aside sadness and singHow love that passes is enough.Sing about the long deep sleepOf lovers that are dead, and howIn the grave al… Read More
2007-11-15 01:43
Surrounded on all four sides by my new "string" video at Monkey Town. Indulging in the tastiest bites and in more glasses of wine than one should have (when one is on her own) at Veloce. S… Read More
2007-11-12 17:13
I saw some great art during my trip to New York. In fact, New York being such an art city, I feel rewarded in full. Rewarded for an afternoon given away to diligent practice in a collegiat… Read More
2007-11-07 14:56
Um. Yeah. I gotta go practice. Now Read More
2007-11-04 03:44
Silence is deafening. (Even more than motos.) It's true, and I've decided that I do not like it, not one bit. Silence avoids sense. Silence avoids meaning. Music creates meaning. Music… Read More
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