2020
Winter 2020
Metanoia
Concert Band
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
01/06/2021 04:04 PM
I did a lot of nonsense teaching things last semester. Or rather, things that seem like nonsense, but that are grounded in my composition/creative and programmer/system-building tendencies. Some of these things worked. Probably the last part of a 3-part series that I thought I’d forget about but somehow didn’t.Part 1: Late Work PassesPart 2: Choose-your-own-adventure […]
12/31/2020 01:12 AM
I did a lot of nonsense teaching things last semester. Or rather, things that seem like nonsense, but that are grounded in my composition/creative and programmer/system-building tendencies. Some of these things worked. This is part 2 in a multi-part series I have thus far not forgotten about. (part 1: Late Work Passes) MUSC 385: Music […]
12/18/2020 03:48 PM
I did a lot of nonsense teaching things this semester. Or rather, things that seem like nonsense, but that are grounded in my composition/creative and programmer/system-building tendencies. Some of these things worked. Part 1 in a multi-part series I will probably forget to update in about January. I hate late work, but I’m no good […]
08/25/2020 02:51 PM
Thaw was set to receive its premiere this summer at Clarinetfest(r) in Reno, but that’s been postponed for obvious reasons. Which has given me the opportunity to finally write its program note: I wrote Thaw during my third winter in Fargo, and it was an act of optimism, because spring hadn’t hinted its arrival when […]
06/23/2020 03:51 PM
Program note for One Sows for the Benefit of Another Age, which is new this summer: I started writing what would become One Sows for the Benefit of Another Age in 2013, as I was sketching ideas for what became a piano trio. I liked what I had created, but two things became evident: The […]
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 […]
