NEW & UPCOMING
Here is a video produced by Spiegel Online about the hacking workshop I did for MaerzMusik 2012 in Berlin in March 2012.
Talk, talk talk. Here is a paper I presented at the Lucier retirement symposium at Wesleyan in November, 2011. (Here is a video of an off-the-cuff version of similar material presented as an introduction to a Lucier concert produced by Dag in De Branding in the Hague, May 29, 2010). And here is a paper on the impact of John Cage on younger composers, improvisers and sound artists, presented at the John Cage und die Folgen (Cage & Consequences) Symposium in Berlin in March 2012.
Basking in the glow of the reception of my undergraduate Lucier notebooks, preparing for the Lucier retirement symposium at Wesleyan in November, or just wallowing in this fit of nostalgia, I've taken the dubious step of scanning and uploading my BA and MA theses. If that's too embarrassing, you can find a selection of my prose scores from this period here. One kid's distillation of the wine of 70s experimentalism -- student work, to be sure, but perhaps not without some value as a window onto that heady time.
Here is my keynote talk from the NIME conference in Sydney in June 2010, as recorded and produced by Cathy Peters at the Australian Broadcast Corporation. You can't see my cute visuals, but I offer well over 1000 words in their stead.
¿Entiendes español? Aquí está un buen podcast por JM Costa de hacking and bending (la piratería y la flexión!)
May 2011: On the occasion of Alvin Lucier's combined 80th birthday and retirement party I decided to give him the notebook I kept when I took his legendary "Introduction to Electronic Music" class at Wesleyan University my freshman year (1972-73). Here is a scan of the notebook and some related documents.