TweetDeck, Times, and the new FriendFeed
I did a brief (6 minute) screencast recently about some of my favorite new tech toys: TweetDeck (my favorite way to interface with Twitter on the desktop), the ultra-slick Mac-only RSS reader called Times, and the new FriendFeed interface. Let me know if you are using any of these apps–I love them!
Audio from my appearance at Chicago Music Commission panel
The audio track (about 1 1/4 hours) from the Chicago Music Commission’s Musicians at Work forum in which I recently participated as a panelist was released a couple of weeks ago. Podcasters Jim Goodrich and Fred Wells, along with Gaper’s Block writer Graham Sanford and yours truly all participated an a Q&A about podcasting, blogging, and how to get started doing both with some sort of business-oriented motivation in mind. Hope you find it interesting!
I’ve done several blog/podcast/musical entrepreneurship events like this over the past few years, most recently for the Chicago Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) down at Roosevelt University. Though my blog and podcast tend to be more geared toward the classical side of things, I’ve done a lot of more general chatter about how this kind of stuff I do can benefit all musicians. It’s funny–I never set out to have a successful blog, but I now find myself with a popular music blog, a podcast (which feels like the most constructive thing I do online!), and a guy who manages a few other projects like these for different groups. In fact, I was sort of embarrassed that I had this site for a long time, but I continue to realize that life’s twists and turns can take you down the paths that you’d least expect.
I’m on faculty… really!
Though it certainly had its drawbacks (did you know that if you Google “disturbing adjunct teaching,” this post of mine comes up? Ha!), I did enjoy having an institutional affiliation for my bass teaching for the five years I taught my university studio double bass. It was nice to be able to say that I was the bass teacher at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, rather than identifying myself as just some solo bass dude like I do now (though not in those exact words).
Therefore, for whatever reason, I get a warm and fuzzy feeling to see that I’m up, snarky sneer and all, on the DePaul University Music Education faculty pages:
Maybe I should have chose a less despondent picture for this! It looks like my puppy just died. Perhaps something like this would have worked better:
Master class with Rami Solomonow
One of the many hats I wear these days is as podcast coordinator for the wonderful Midwest Young Artists youth music organization here in the north suburbs of Chicago. Their podcast can be found at WMYA.FM. The following episode featuring DePaul University viola professor Rami Solomonow was released in the fall of 2008, and I thought that bass blog folks might be interested in this as well–it’s a great primer on bow concepts and should prove to be interesting to those interested in a different perspective about tone production on stringed instruments.
Leonard Cohen video interview
As I was taking care of some video upload tasks using blip.tv, the awesome service that I’ve used for the last few years as my one-stop for my online video projects, I stumbled upon this interview with Leonard Cohen, one of my favorite songwriters, done by Q TV from the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (the real CBC, despite my podcast abbreviations to the contrary). Enjoy!
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