My collab track with Fastus was added to SeeHear Recording’s “World Fusion” playlist. I thought of this as Americana + ambient rather than “world”, but those are my own blinders. […]

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I don’t know what my tiny-scrap miniatures will be good for. One possibility is bumpers in between segments of a podcast, radio show, or film. Another is little palette refreshers […]

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I came across another musician who prefers to live on the open web, outside of the clutches of the silos: Ether Diver. Here’s where you’ll find the music of the […]

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People tell you they don’t like a piece by ignoring it. Reactions to release of my ultra-short music video yesterday were non-existent, and I promoted it pretty hard. One close […]

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One of my favorite feeds is California Landscape Bot, “a real time portrait of California brought to you by the alertca.live network,” which generates GIFs from video cameras monitoring landscapes […]

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I came across another openweb musician blog today, nnnnnnnn.co. It is also a landing page for a musician with a taste for abstraction and background in open source engineering. What […]

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I did an acoustronic jam in the park in Beacon NY today. My jam partner was Ben Sergentanis. He played a well worn Roland 404 sampler and a pre-production Chompi […]

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As a guitar player who loves some jazz, I am sad that jazz guitar is mainly bad. Breezin‘? More like cheesin’! OMG funny. Even the absolute best jazz players are […]

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My most recent Disquiet piece is part of a really good dance production in Armenia. The whole piece is worth a watch, but my part comes in at 9:42 (and […]

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