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​Let's Talk Rhythm Part 3: Rhythm Sieves

3/22/2022
​​Essay on generating rhythms from filtered number sequences and cells


​Defining "Success" In Academia, The Arts, and Music
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​10/8/2019
Essay by guest writer Dr. Andrew Selle on the various definitions of success in creative field

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Yours, Mine...Not Necessarily Ours
8/8/2019
Some thoughts on the concept of "audience"

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Music and Mental Health: Complementary, Not Contradictory
7/26/2019
My story of getting diagnosed with bipolar disorder in November 2017, the role mental illness plays in my art, and some thoughts on mental health/illness in the arts


Some Thoughts on Musical Inherence, Structure, and Aesthetics
1/3/2018
Essay by guest writer Dr. Andrew Selle on subjective cognition, form/structure, aesthetics, positivism, and more
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​Klang in 2018 - Updates, News, Changes
1/3/2018
​Just some updates for the blog ​


Pitch Multiplication
8/27/2017
​​Article on creating pitch structures through various methods of multiplying sets
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​35 Composers All Undergrads Should Know
​3/22/2017
​Essay on the living composers I (Jon Fielder) feel are underrepresented in undergraduate music curricula and should be a part of all programs centered around the Western canon


Another Reflection on 2016
1/25/2017
​Personal reflection on musicians we lost in 2016. It was a particularly bad year for the music world across genres


Creating Pitch Structures with Sieves
​9/13/2016
​​Article on creating pitch series with filtered/interleaved interval series and concatenated PC sets


Remembering Boulez
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​1/6/2016
Memorial obituary for Pierre Boulez​


Programming Trends Among Chamber Ensembles
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10/24/2015
Quantitative research article on statistics of chamber ensembles programming living/deceased composers in the 2015/16 seasons


​Tales from the Road - ICMC and the Barn Dance
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10/10/2015
Review of the 2015 ICMC conference at UNT and the EA Barn Dance at University of Mary Washington, the Cmd+Q roadtrip



​Ruminations on Lumpy Gravy, or Some Thoughts on Titles, or Maybe Something Else More Long-Winded...
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8/5/2015
Essay of my blowhardy opinions on good and bad titles


​Let's Talk Rhythm Part 2: Nested Tuplets
7/24/2015
​Article about the rhythmic device of nested tuplets - tuplet inside tuplets - breaking them down and making them​


Let's Talk Rhythm Part 1: Rationalizing the Irrational
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6/26/2015
Article about irrational meter, breaking them down, hearing and "feeling" them in context.


​Something in the way they Move - Notating Physical Gesture
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6/17/2015
​Essay on music that notates physical movement rather than pitches/rhythms and the philosophy of prescriptive notation


Glenn Branca's 25 Questions
6/10/2015
​Q&A wherein I provide serious and some snarky answers to composer/guitarist Glenn Branca's 25 Questions to composers


Ensemble of the 21st century
9/29/2014
A short essay on the rise of the laptop orchestra as a new viable ensemble for musical expression and democratization in the 21st century
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