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Dec

The World of the Wampanoag

in Actual News, Blog, New Music, Work tags: Ben Franklin's World, Narragansett, Omohundro Institute, original music, podcast, Wampanoag

Over the past month or so, I’ve been working away on the original score for a two-episode podcast series, produced by Ben Franklin’s World and the Omohundro Institute, entitled, “The World of the Wampanoag.”

Nov

Next Music Literacy Workshop

in Actual News, Blog, Teaching, Workshop tags: class, media, music communication, producer, production, teaching, workshop

On November 28th, from 1:00pm to 5:00pm (EST), I will, once again, be leading my workshop, Music Literacy for Content Creators.

Oct

New Jam: “Break Down”

in Actual News, Blog, Friendship, Just For Fun, New Music, Total Friendship tags: electronic, operatic, pop music, Synthesizer

Don’t Every Lie To Anyone—my music project with Jordyn Bonds—has been collaborating with our bud, Noell Dorsey, on five new singles, which we’re releasing one-at-a-time (as we finish them).

I’m pleased to report that the second of those songs, “Break Down” hit the tubes TODAY.

Oct

Zynthetic Zketches Vol. 2

in Actual News, Blog, Just For Fun, New Music tags: Analog, electronic, Synthesizer, Sythesis, zynthetic

Today, I’m releasing the Zynthetic Zketches Vol. 2—my second ten-song EP of analog synthesizer explorations.

Sep

New Music Alert!

in Actual News, Blog, Friendship

I'm PSYCHED to report that today, Don't Ever Lie To Anyone—my long time live-music collaboration with Jordyn Bonds—is releasing our first ever recording! The song "Fall in Circles" is the first of five tracks that we'll be releasing one-by-one over the next few weeks/months. While we s[...]

Aug

Music Literacy Workshop

in Actual News, Blog, Teaching, Workshop

On August 29th from 1-5pm (EST), I'll, once again, be leading/teaching/hosting my workshop, Music Literacy for Content Creators. I keep trying to find new, better, more entertaining ways to say it, but nothing my beats my first attempt: The class takes a deep dive into the constituent el[...]

Jul

Salem Film Fest Q&As

in Actual News, Blog, Work

The Salem Film Fest is entering its last week—running through July 30th! As a member of the festival's screening committee, I can report firsthand that this year's collection includes some truly amazing entries. In addition to screening films, I was super lucky to get to moderate a coupl[...]

Jul

Come to Salem, Stream the World

in Actual News, Blog

As a member of the Salem Film Fest screening committee, I'm happy to announce that this year's film festival has been moved online and starts TODAY (running through July 30th, 2020)! If you have the time, interest, and/or wherewithal, please check out some of the incredible films on this year[...]

May

Comusica

in Actual News, Blog, Work

I’m super psyched to be a part of the team that put together Comusica—the centerpiece event of MIT’s online commencement this year. Conceived by Eran Egozy, Comusica is a track which “features the voices of more than 800 MIT class of 2020 graduates and alumni, stitched together into one o[...]

May

AI and Me and You and The Beatles

in Blog, Friendship, Hard Bloggin', Total Friendship, Work, Workshop tags: AI, computers, documentary, Music, podcast

On May 7th, I received an email from my friend, Ryan Walsh asking me if I had any thoughts on this article for a piece he was writing for Stereogum. The good news was that I definitely had thoughts; the bad new was that I had ten-jillion of them, which, of course, is just too many thoughts for a [...]