I didn’t take a ton of interesting pictures the past two months–lots of teaching and organization and tech support. But here’s the interesting bits of the middle of the fall semester.
I finished writing a piece for Bassoon and Electronics. This isn’t what it’s called now, but it was called this very briefly (more info on that piece coming up in the next few days)
I started work on a contrabassoon piece, and I’m using a tool I developed for tracking the composition process (which I have a presentation on next week at CMS, which I need to finish). Here’s a quick shot of me composing while on an NDSU Press field trip (staying at Nineteen26 Campground and Lodging in Steele, ND).
(That same field trip, the NDSU Intro to Publishing class printed, folded, collated, and trimmed 275 copies of this year’s chapbook. I drove the van and drank a lot of coffee.) Here’s a photo of the group (courtesy Allan Burke):
A few weeks later, we took the same class to Altona, Manitoba, to tour Friesens Corporation. Friesens is one of Canada’s largest book printers. Here we are next to several tons of rolls of paper. I drove the van and drank a lot of coffee.
We turned Festival Concert Hall into a Black Box theatre again for our fall Thundering Heard! student composers recital. This year we’re trying to build an audience with New Music Punchcards.
Ooh! Also, the NDSU University Symphony Orchestra premiered my work The Uncertainty of Joy. (https://vimeo.com/1018999619, at about 50:30. Updates to the website coming soon!)
Back at home, we got a new gate for the backyard (we lost the old one when we expanded the garage door at the beginning of covid times)…
I hit 1,450 days on Duolingo…
Bartleby claimed more of Erin’s furniture…
And Erin went for a stroll.
Next week I’m off to the 2024 College Music Society/Association for Technology in Music Instruction conference, at the Washington, DC, Hilton. That’s right. Washington, DC. During election week. I can only assume that the conference hotel was cheaper for those dates.
