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...

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...

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...

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...

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...