Sam Nichols

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

At under a thousand dollars this is a steal!

Some holiday wistfulness

On a distant Christmas my mom bought this box of ornaments at Reny’s for 88 cents

No Kings in Davis CA

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

His sideburns are totally unequal in length.

Gauguin Vargas *Vauhini Vara’s! “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” is amazing and highly recommended by one person you know (or are at least connected to)

Did Adrien Brody just back up to throw his gum to his wife? Did she just try to catch it? What is happening

This is really offensive and I won’t be a part of it

An empty store front at night. The soda coolers have brown Kraft paper taped over their windows.

Downtown Winters

Taproot New Music Festival - Music November 6–9, 2025

Composers, come work with Ensemble Dal Niente and the Empyrean Ensemble, and have a new piece premiered. No fees or restrictions. Please spread the word and make sure people have a chance to consider applying. We're accepting applications until April 15, 2025.
arts.ucdavis.edu/taproot

A 19-year-old Jim Hobson, of Battle Ground, is shown here water skiing on May 18, 1980, as Mount St. Helens erupts in the background.

A teenager water skiing as Mount St. Helens erupts in the background (May 18, 1980).

@chaujkelly.bsky.social @lauriesanmartin.bsky.social and I were at Dunloe’s which used to be B & L and look what LSM spotted:

I’d love to compare notes w you in a week or two. I need to block out some time to dig in w Dorico. Using Finale became increasingly annoying as the kludgy workarounds piled up but now it’s weirdly bittersweet, each time I use it I wonder if it’s the last time

Yeah that’s similar to my current set up which involves an old laptop that’s offline —it’s basically a toaster oven—that I just use for finale while I learn another notation program.

I’m sorta running Finale 26 on Sequoia and sometimes pages don’t print (and can’t write them to PDFs).

A dirty pacifier sits abandoned in a rainy parking lot.

Feelings check

A young man wearing glasses, appearing slightly stressed out, leans over a table holding a solder iron. He is poking around in the guts of some sort of audio equipment.

Bryndan learned how to solder today

A young woman who has just finished putting together a whiteboard finishes peeling off the protective plastic layer.

The eagle has landed.

A young woman sits cross legged while holding together two pieces of metal.

Lynx putting together a project in the Sound Lab.

Two trays of bananas

The national news is making my head spin. But I’m so grateful for moments with outstanding people and musicians. Come hear the orange Road String Quartet at Pitzer center thurs, 1/23 @12noon and fri, 1/24 @5PM. Both concerts are free.

Jesus

A City on Fire Can’t Be Photographed The images of a burning Los Angeles won’t last, simply because our ways of seeing are inadequate to our predicament.

"It has been said that climate change looks like the dissemination of ever more alarming amateur footage until, someday, you’re the one making the footage." Teju Cole @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

Jk! But seriously you could follow some of us back it wouldn’t kill you

Whatever. Unfollow.

Two people in a green room backstage get ready to take a picture. A man is holding his phone and trying to figure out how to flip the camera, while a woman wearing a scarf stands next to him and grins. He looks a little stressed out but she is having a good time.

@lauriesanmartin.bsky.social w Gabriel Duarte DaSilva at the Artzenter reading at Herbst on Friday

Yes but I should have unwrapped them first