So I’ve been gone for a little while, and have nothing much to show for it.
That isn’t to say I haven’t done anything mind you, because as with all such lapses in website updating, I’ve been reading new stuff, rereading old stuff, developing a bizarre respect for the work of Peter Weller, and growing hopelessly disillusioned at the point of writing music in 21st Century North America. I say this after a great deal of careful thought, but let me first clarify that I mean not to conjure a romantic ideal of Europe or South America (as many routinely accuse me of), but rather to call into question the very society I find myself at odds with day after day. I find it profoundly concerning that by and large I can count all the people who share in my musical intellectual stimulation on two or three fingers. This seems not to be the case with other expressive mediums, as it is not the movie theater with an aging audience and not enough younger participants to make up for the mounting losses (deaths).
I’ll try my best to update more often, although I did manage to post the collaboration I did with Simeon Poulin last spring.