Beckwith Recital Hall, NDSU, Fargo, ND
12/29/2021 03:51 PM
Things I learned and/or did this year: I never really understood when classmates (or students) said they were “done” with school. I get it now. Learning is fun, but I have work to do. It’s hard to balance being a human, a student, a professor, a composer, and a programmer. I have to start curating […]
10/04/2021 02:26 PM
I had some writer’s block earlier this year. After completing Shindig for horn choir, I flailed a lot from about March to August. I think part of it was the workload from taking classes and teaching a full load across two campuses. But another part of it was that I spent mid-to-late part of the […]
04/10/2021 10:53 PM
The more I’ve composed, and the more I’ve taught music, the more I realize that there’s just so much interesting stuff out there to learn, a lot of which intersects with music composition. Psychology of creativity, business administration, critical theory, aesthetics, higher education administration–these are all things that sound terribly interesting. Cassie’s work at NDSU […]
01/26/2021 10:38 PM
When I first built Liszt, it required (logically) that users have a username and password. Well, more correctly, it required that I have a username and password, since I was the only one using it. As it grew and I got better at programming, I kept slightly upgrading the credential process and permissions system–the last […]
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 […]
