More stories from years past: The Babbling Conductor – I’m skating on thin ice with this post! The classical music world is surprisingly small, after all, and anydisparaging talk about conductors, even in the most anonymous terms, is likely to trickle back to the...
Hmmm… it’s June 17–I wonder what I’m doing right now? Probably not sitting in front of the computer (which is why I’m putting this out early and not letting the blog sit fallow for a couple of weeks): My Car Caught Fire and Exploded! –...
Here’s the podcast rundown (I don’t think I missed any) from my always excellent Contrabass Conversations co-host John Grillo and all of his wonderful contributions to the podcast over the years: Ed Barker interview The State of the Orchestra Differences...
Though I’m writing this the last day of May, I’m assuming that I, in fact, have not died falling off of a mountain in Peru and am successfully back in the United States. I’m also assuming that I have absolutely zero time to blog at this moment,...
Another great video of Live in action. I picked up touchAble, an iPad controller for Ableton Live, and I’m really digging it. Still, I’d love to get an APC-40 (the device that DJ Kiva is using to control the session). There are a lot of things for which a...
