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Mar

Beautiful Weekend on WBUR!

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Last week, Noell and I stopped by WBUR for a chat and mini-ish on-air performance with Radio Boston's Adam Ragusea. The show airs today at 3pm on 90.9FM -- or you can stream it "worldwide at wbur.org," as I once heard someone say. Update: The audio to this dealie can be found here![...]

Mar

Beautiful Weekend CD Available for Pre-Order

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Beautiful Weekend's forthcoming full-length, Holy Hype!, comes out April 17th on Peacock Recordings! It's currently available for pre-order from our Bandcamp page, digitally or on CD. You can also pick up the CD at the release show on April 14th at [...]

Feb

April Performances Bring May Rent

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I'm happy to report that I'll be joining Evan Ziporyn and MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika for four performances of Evan's piece "Tire Fire" in April. Shows are: 4/5: UMass Lowell 4/13: MIT (Cambridge, MA) 4/20: Philips Academy (Andover, MA) 4/28: Bang on a Can 25th Anniversary Concert, Alice Tul[...]

Feb

Beautiful Weekend Full-Length on the Way

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We've put the first two songs from our upcoming album Holy Hype! up on our Bandcamp page. The record will be out April 17th on Peacock Recordings.[...]

Jan

Norman Schwarzkopf Made Me Gay

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I just finished up the music for Sara Ebrahimi's short documentary Norman Schwarzkopf Made Me Gay, which will be debuting this spring at Rooftop Films in NYC. Thanks a bundle to Nikan Milani for the Persian music lesson! [...]

Dec

Animal Hospital Ensemble

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Here's a thing: I spent this past weekend playing guitar in Kevin Micka's Animal Hospital Ensemble -- a thirty-something piece group organized to perform three songs from Kevin's 2009 album "Memory." There were two performances; one at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, RI and the other at M[...]

Aug

John Cage Score

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While attending a cook-out* at my friend Craig's house this past Saturday to celebrate his total triumph at the deCordova Sculpture Park earlier that day, he pulled out a hand-written John Cage score, composed in 1955 (or, at the very least, gifted in 1955) for a co-worker/friend of his, sculptor Da[...]

May

Back From London, Working on New Music

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The Barbican "Central Market" show was super fun! I met a lot of great people and heard some amazing music!* I'm currently finishing up a a piece for Brooklyn Brass, which will be performed this summer. *Defs check out Gyan Riley, Missy Mazzoli, [...]

Apr

Film Music

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I just finished up the music for Mathias Pardo's new film Les Vacances de Victor et Lisa. I HIGHLY recommend working with someone who lives in a time zone that's twelve hours away from you. You get a couple hours in the morning and evening to hang/discuss and you each get to do your actual work w[...]

Mar

Vimeo and Quicktime

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I feel obligated to tell the world about this problem after spending hours trying to figure out how to fix it. It would appear that Quicktime saves Vimeo movies in a peculiar way resulting in a "time value error." This became particularly clear to me when attempting to import a Vimeo-downloaded [...]