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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
10/8/2019
Essay by guest writer Dr. Andrew Selle on the various definitions of success in creative field
Yours, Mine...Not Necessarily Ours
8/8/2019
Some thoughts on the concept of "audience"
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
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
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
1/6/2016
Memorial obituary for Pierre Boulez
Programming Trends Among Chamber Ensembles
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
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...
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
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
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
