Singing Machines Part 3

Reminiscing… I was hiking the Monadnock-Sunapee trail on an August Saturday near our cabin on a New Hampshire lake. I was in the woods at least a quarter mile away from shore and I could hear the motorboats, making endless circles around the lake. It was my homing beacon, better than any compass. I could   Read More...

Singing Machines Part 2

The propeller of the little 9-row airplane that flies from Phoenix to Flagstaff Arizona hums low, the fan warbles at a mid-range pitch, and then the whole plane shakes like the butt-kickers at the IMAX theater as we take off. As we rise higher, the puddle-jumper thrums a pumping pulse about 60 beats/minutes until it   Read More...

Electronic Musician – Why I’m dissatisfied

There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t like the new Electronic Musician, recently merged with EQ magazine. The Profile section is many pages, covering musicians who I don’t know in styles I don’t listen to, and they’re almost all guys. I didn’t do a statistical survey, but in the October 2011 issue, there’s a   Read More...

Two new pieces of music – Resonances and Zoa

Resonances is a new publication in the Spindrift Music Catalog: for alto sax, trumpet, 2 trombones, 2 percussion. Check out the score preview or listen to the the audio demo: a performance from 1999. I don’t know why it took me so long to make this piece available. I guess there was no urgency; it’s   Read More...