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 Ether Diver. For the time being it is (essentially) Bandcamp exclusive, with a few preview tracks and music videos here and there. YOU WILL NOT…

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 friend who I really pushed for a response asked if my intention was something like a super trendy restaurant that serves you a big plate…

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 for wildfire. The GIFs are super short, less than ten seconds. I picked one I love, all 8.1 seconds, and soundtracked it. Like any miniature,…

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 keeps me out here beyond the wall, no matter how isolating it is, is an aversion to the controlling ways of businesses like Soundcloud. It’s…

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 looper. I played resonator guitar through a Hologram Microcosm. Ben’s set was built around beats sampled through the 404. They were well curated – clever…

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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 80% weak. Wes Montgomery’s recordings are mainly easy listening. Pat Metheny is unacceptable at all times. John Scofield? Dude. I have listened closely to all…

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 again over the closing). It makes me happy to become part of a thriving creative flow – not just the choreographer Ida Manserian, but also…

Q-Burns Abstract Message interviewed The Children… on his blog. I’m struck by the way he used a personal blog for publishing something valuable to the world. The band is new but notable because of the predecessor bands, which were important in the pre-grunge postpunk world. I like the band’s instrumentals but didn’t dig the singing.…

One reason this blog is such a solitary experience is that blogs are dead. Things aren’t aggregated from scattered sources, they are published within a distribution site. I don’t like it, but can’t do anything about it short of creating an aggregator, which would be a tech project that took me away from music.