What can I say, it’s been a busy semester. Let’s see what I’ve been up to:
In addition to my normal NDSU duties this semester, I taught a class in MaxMSP at Concordia. They have pretty great facilities, including this enormous TV that defaults to the Tennis Channel when you turn it on. (Note: I figured out how to fix that, and the students REVOLTED so I changed it back). By the end of the semester, The Tennis Channel had become Pickleball TV
The comp studio released an anthology of original works from 2024, and that was part of February.
I traveled down to OKC for a CMS conference, and encountered this thoroughly optimistic poster. Your career is not an option indeed. (There was also a performance of Joyride for clarinet and alto sax).
CK was meme’d and chastised the clarinet table in the student lounge. I’m told it didn’t work.
I…what (taken while stopped at a stoplight on University Drive in Fargo)
I encountered this delightful surrogate recital poster:
My worst nightmare happened–ChatGPT figured out how to reasonably draw a bassoon.
I also planned a whole CMS conference at KU at the beginning of April (Fellow NDSU composer Martin Van Klompenberg performed two of my bassoon works, Miniwashitu for contrabassoon and piano, and Press Any Key To Continue for Bassoon and Electronics). Martin also performed NDSU Student Composer Jonathon Erickson’s Treants’ March. (No pictures, but there should be. The hotel we stayed at in Topeka was a trip unto itself.
Hey, the Boreas Trio finally released that album they’ve been working on for 4 years, which includes Earmarks.
After the ND University System blocked access to Calendly, I used ChatGPT to build a replacement, which I’ve named Ives.
And man, this kid just keeps growing.
