Cutting up Dylan, Burroughs, Forbidden Planet, Your Least Favorite Beatles Track, and more

Back with another one. Do you like cutting things up? Who doesn't?
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Some or all: a piano novella/nocturne A sort of expanded program note

An extended program note and link to the performance of my piano piece "Some or All," premiered last Saturday by Kristin Scioneaux as part of the LSU Faculty Composers Concert.
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Of time and Timbuktu On becoming stuck and unstuck in time

New post--of time and becoming unstuck therefrom
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I think of Iannis Xenakis An inadequate response to unimaginable times

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Breakfast at Frank's An interlude

This one's just about breakfast.
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Wrapping up some loose ends Conclusions and openings

So it's MMXXDVI...
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Holiday Idyll Art and nature one day in Baton Rouge

A stocking stuffer, or something. Do you like rivers? There's a river.
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You know what would make a great Christmas gift? Me neither, but here's a blog post.
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The Mondegreen is the message Sense, nonsense, and things in between

Back after a holiday hiatus
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Disaster pedagogy Teaching in times of natural and human catastrophe

Some thoughts on teaching through disaster and trauma (excerpted from my recent talk at SMT)
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Do entire academic disciplines age? If so, what era has music theory entered?

Thoughts after AMS/SMT
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Old new (old? new?) music This is for your ears

Old man shouts at clouds...film at 10:
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A screed about Charles Ives My exploration of America's problem composer

He's at it again.
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The Buna Mission From my father's war diary

A new one, slightly different. From my father's war diary.
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What did you do during your sabbatical, grandad? Well
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Dylan, Cage, Gould, cacti Overlapping and non-overlapping magisteria, etc.

Just when you thought it was safe to glance at Substack:
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A journey home, part 6 Heading back

The last installment of this series:
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A journey back home, part 5 In which I venture into the Purple Valley and meet with an old friend

So nu...
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A journey back home, part 4 Balance Rock and Balance

It's alive!
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A journey back home, part 3 No coffee? What sort of religion is this? Magic realism in the Berkshires? And an anomalous boat.

The saga plods on.
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A journey back home, part 2 Saturday (day one of my return to the Berkshires)

The next installment (Warning: tedious digressions)
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A journey back home, part 1 Nostalgia, memory, small delicious hot dogs

A new whatever:
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American writes embarrassing love letter to Edinburgh Another fan of Auld Reekie

Unpacking after my trip
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Ready mades: ways to push boundaries You can be an asshole about it or not

The fruit of my annual week in Edinburgh with some LSU students:
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What I look at when I look at Turner Reflections on my favorite Romantic

What I look at when I look at Turner.
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Tangents I enjoy When I teach music, what else I teach

This is what I do while the anesthesia is wearing off:
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New Music on the Bayou (II) What I value in new works

And furthermore
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New Music on the Bayou 2025 (I) Among other things, a celebration of many excellent things in Northern Louisiana

Recent doings (part 1):
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It's time you met Mel Powell About a work in progress and how I got to it

New thing...
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Boundaries and borders A few fixations and how they seem to relate to things

New thing up.
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