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Summer 2025 Updates
Posted on 2025-09-13 09:00:00 by Kyle and tagged with UpdatesCheck, check, 1, 2. Is this thing on?
Every 5-10 years, I get antsy with my blog setup and switch from WordPress to something of my own making. This is the latest iteration of using my inferior coding rather than the robust infrastructure of WordPress. And since Liszt (which is *gestures around* all this) got a lot of updates this summer, let's see if we can break it.
And now, the regularly-scheduled photo dump.
Most of the summer we were kicked out of our offices as the newly-renamed Challey Hall underwent renovation in addition to the construction we lived through last year. We tried out the industrial no-ceiling look, but it just didn't match the concert hall.
With all the moving around, we found all sorts of things, such as this guy who got locked in a storage closet.
Since we were kicked out of our office, we had to make do with other activities. We started the summer by celebrating Erin's first birthday, and after a relatively calm June by comparison, then went the marathon of teaching and conferences. I spent a week at the International Music Camp teaching Audio Tech, drove home on a Saturday, then we packed the car first thing Sunday morning to head to ClarinetFest in Fort Worth. Cassie premiered Theme and Conversations along with Suzanne Tirk and En-chi Anna Ho.
Can you tell it was in Forth Worth?
So let's see...The week after ClarinetFest(r) was uneventful, then Cassie was at IMC for a week, then Cassie was at Minnesota All-State at Concordia for a week, then I left for the Aspen Composers Conference, where I presented a paper with Zach Daniels on creative ecosystems. We flew into Denver and rented a car, and took the back way into Aspen through Independence Pass.
Fargo has direct flights to and from Denver, so it was a breeze getting there. Getting back, however, involved a detour.
After getting back from my wayward trip to Chicago at 2 in the morning, we packed the car the next morning for a week at the ranch.
Getting back home, the building was finally open enough to move in, ceilings and all. Here's the faculty studio that I finally got to move in to, giving the composition program an actual space!
Erin helped with filing my percussion music.
And here's what I've done with the place. I figured, since we're talking about composition and mostly looking at a screen, why look at a 13-inch laptop screen when you can have a TV?
I've taught in this space for three weeks and it's great. I still think that carpet is a choice though.
And now that the semester's in full swing, it's all lesson prep and grading and troubleshooting computers, and an AI song cycle, but that's a story for another time.
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