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
2018
Fall 2018
Ping & Peal
Stereo Acousmatic/Finger Cymbals and Stereo Acousmatic
2018
Fall 2018
Cryptomnesia
Tenor Saxophone and Percussion
Beckwith Recital Hall, NDSU, Fargo, ND
Turner Hall, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
01/18/2020 04:27 AM
(Continued) I don’t want to give the impression that we should blow up the music curriculum. There’s a lot we have to go through in not a lot of time. Some of the things we have to address in the music curriculum: Grammar and/or Math (Music Theory), Fluency (Aural Skills), History (Musicology), Individual Technical and […]
01/17/2020 05:32 AM
(Continued) Everything we do in Music is a project. We very much do not teach music this way. Thinking back to the list of things from the College of Business, they’re all project- or product-driven. You don’t need Idea Generation for existing, you need Idea Generation for improvement or for something new. In Music, every […]
01/16/2020 04:18 AM
Continued from yesterday. Some of the suggestions that the College of Business suggested we change or include in Music Entrepreneurship involve the following topics: Idea Generation, Creation, and Evolution. Customer Interviews Project Management Value Proposition Business Model Canvas Channels Minimum Viable Product Exit Strategies As I mentioned, my knee-jerk reaction was “But we don’t DO […]
01/15/2020 04:53 AM
About 10 months ago, NDSU ramped up their Entrepreneurship efforts, all branded as NICE: NDSU Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship. As part of that push, the NICE Center started a faculty fellowship (called NICE Fellows. Seriously.) of which I’m pleased to be a part. One of the things I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about […]
01/14/2020 05:52 AM
In the mid 1920s, nearly a century ago, Graham Wallis proposed his model of the creative process in a book called The Art of Thought. The four-stage model borrows from earlier work and thoughts by Herman von Helmholtz and Henri Poincare, and consists of Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, and Verification. Preparation is the realization of a […]
01/11/2020 04:32 AM
As I’ve been teaching composition and refining my own creative process, I’ve found that I think of composition gigs as projects: Write a tape piece, compose a tuba sonata, record an album, plan a recital, and so on. This works pretty well for my own process, but some of my other students don’t have such […]
01/10/2020 12:47 AM
I spend a lot of time in my teaching trying to find the happy medium between mercy and justice. This especially manifested itself this past semester in terms of late work. With an expanded number of classes and students, I instituted a new late work policy, which is basically that everything turned in by the […]
01/09/2020 05:13 AM
I found out earlier today (as I was driving from Fallon to Fargo) that Earmarks has just earned me a place as a semi-finalist in the Instrumental Chamber Music division of The American Prize national non-profit competitions in the performing arts. You can learn more about The American Prize at www.theamericanprize.org or follow the news on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-American-Prize-celebrating-American-excellence-in-the-arts/214320622728 or Twitter: https://twitter.com/americanprize
01/07/2020 05:50 PM
I have almost exactly the sort of teaching position I want to have. Of course there are always things that could improve, the role I get to play right now is my favorite. Julius Bahle in a 1930s paper divided composers into work-type composers and inspiration-type composers. Though I’m not sure if I follow that […]
01/07/2020 05:50 AM
Fall 2019 was a challenging semester. I think I taught alright—none of my classes were new preps. There was just a bunch of it. To recap: NDSU: MUSC 189: Skills for Academic success, or “how to be a music major”. 1 credit. NDSU: MUSC 331: Instrumental Arranging. 2 credits. NDSU: MUSC 385: Music Entrepreneurship. 3 […]
