2020
Spring 2020
One Sows for the Benefit of Another Age
Orchestra
2020
Winter 2020
Thaw
Clarinet Choir
2019
Winter 2019
Four Views of the Butterfly Effect
Percussion Quartet
2019
November 2019
Tape Piece
Stereo Fixed Media
2019
2019
Calibrating the Moon
Tuba and Piano
2019
Spring 2019
Drift
Two Bass Clarinets and Piano
05/07/2020 02:43 AM
In no particular order We had like a thousand high school students in the music building at NDSU right before spring break. I had just flown in from Nashville at the beginning of March. Knowing what we know now, that’s kind of terrifying. We had a pretty good warning that classes would move online, and […]
04/06/2020 03:41 AM
Earmarks has moved from the semifinalist stage of the Chamber Music division of The American Prize to the finalist stage: Read more here: http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2020/04/finalist-composers-instrumental-chamber.html
04/02/2020 03:05 PM
I spent the beginning of the year planning to write a small blog post every day. Well, at least every weekday. I had a backlog of blog ideas, and I posted one every day. Trying to channel my inner Seth Godin. And then I got to January 29. What happened on January 29 was that […]
02/05/2020 06:38 AM
This post is primarily for my students, the ones in Music Entrepreneurship who do a similar project. This evening, I finally booked my travel to SEAMUS 2020 at the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. In all honesty, I was procrastinating putting together this week’s Comp II masterclass, but regardless it needed […]
01/30/2020 04:44 AM
As the semester started, I hoped that things would be calmer than the fall, and thankfully in most ways they are. In some ways, however, there’s more work. Here’s a list of some of the things on my radar this spring, some moving into next fall and further. At NDSU: I’m part of the College […]
01/29/2020 05:34 AM
(Continued) Perhaps all of this talk about our students knowing how to do something is moot–after all, I’ve heard the argument that “our students learn what they need to despite what we teach them,” and this is largely true. Most musicians I know (myself included) haven’t had much in terms of entrepreneurship training, and yet […]
01/28/2020 05:45 AM
I’m writing a piece for the NDSU Clarinet Choir, which they’ll perform at ClarinetFest 2020 in Reno, Nevada. Well, I mean, I’m not actually writing it this very minute, I’m writing this blog post. But I have been writing it. Except when I haven’t been. Which has been a lot. This post isn’t so much […]
01/25/2020 05:19 AM
All throughout my college career and the beginning of my teaching career, I never had a good system for keeping track of research–after all, my experience was in composing instead of research. Within the past couple of years, I’ve finally figured out a system that works for me: Index cards. As I read through books, […]
01/24/2020 05:32 AM
(Continued) Back to music projects. Some of the things we do in the music curriculum are essential operational knowledge, such as theory, history, and aural skills. While we can (and often do) put together projects as assignments, the importance is primarily the underlying knowledge, not the “how to” part. Working musicians need theoretical, aural, and […]
01/23/2020 04:16 AM
One of the things that I like about my job (and I mentioned this earlier) is that I get to have ideas that other people don’t, by virtue of being a composer in a music department. Since most of my job is creating things, I get to think about things in a different way. Often […]
