Two different signs with two different audiences in mind.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Me, explaining my 30s to people:

This morning I randomly remembered that Laurie Anderson exists. From the Air is a vibe. "Good evening. This is your Captain. We are about to attempt a crash landing." www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2a...

One of my teachers at @syracuseu.bsky.social and an incredible composer. Deeply beautiful music. Check this album out!!

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

"do you ever feel like a skeleton floating through air wanting to start again?"

I, in a completely non-trolling and sincere way, think the new Taylor Swift album is her best album. Other albums have better songs, but this is cohesively and thematically her strongest and most diverse collection. Except Cancelled. I don't care for that one. (although I think it fits the theme).

I released "Early Electroacoustic Works" last week. It's a collection of drone, noise, plunderphonics, and acousmatic works from 2010-2016. Give it a listen if you'd like! grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...

U2 was called that because they thought there was a little guy inside the delay pedal who played everything a second and a half after the band did.

Bandcamp Friday is over, but the record is still in the world! If you like noise, plunderphonics, drones, and field recordings, you might like this record. Listen for free or purchase for $7. grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...

I put out a new newsletter today! I talk about the new record, my love of @amandashires.bsky.social's new record and upcoming concerts with Society for New Music. mailchi.mp/64ae54b46d38...

It's #BandcampFriday! Both Taylor Swift and I have new records. Mine is mostly plunderphonics, noise, ambient, field recording based soundscapes. Hers probably is not that. You can listen to/buy mine at the link below: grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...

Good god I need the Democrats to be better at politics. If you can't figure out how to spin this, please leave politics and let smarter people take over.

Oh hey! Thanks @untidyradio.bsky.social!

Make a band singular Ben Fold One

The Good Guys with Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks is criminally underrated.

Artist Najee Dorsey returns to Syracuse with new ArtRage Gallery exhibition

Oh hell yeah! Time for Jaws 5.

Say what you will about the younger generation, but my students use "AI like" as a derogatory term for shitty art. I'm increasingly convinced this is a problem that will solve itself.

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

I get the impulse, but I don't like that we call everything a distraction. The President (or his staff on his behalf) posted a picture of himself as a general, with Chicago as Vietnam, claiming he loves the smell of deportations in the morning. That's not a distraction, that's the whole thing.

I was putting the final touches on this month's episode of A Curious Ear, but instead I'm getting lost in this album. Beautiful stuff. arovane.bandcamp.com/album/drei-f...

When you pre-order my new album, "The Early Electroacoustic Works (2010-2016)" you immediately receive the 2016 work, "Noisy Rhetoric", a collaboration with UK based composer/percussionist Colin Frank. Pre-order here: grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...

It's @bandcamp.com Friday! I have a new album available for pre-order! "The Early ElectroAcoustic Works" is a collection of acousmatic and electroacoustic music is a mix of drone, noise, contemporary classical, and plunderphonics. grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/early-...

My non-major music appreciation class has already this debate.

Begrudgingly updates syllabus. Again.

When your wife shows up to your new music concert.

Increasingly I find myself scrolling, hoping to find something 'deeper' to engage with and then I realize "a book, you're thinking of a book, Cresswell".

I found some "albums" I recorded as a teenager. I'm digitizing them. I did not understand mastering as a teenager.

My takeaway from being on juries is that the Ivy leaguers are weaker than you think it’s just that they apply to everything and are overrepresented because others are under-encouraged. the blood is in the water however so apply for that competition, that grant, that fellowship — you never know

Me: "I can't believe Taylor Swift got engaged." My wife: "Yeah, I saw that." Me: "I guess my dream of marrying Taylor Swift is really over" My wife: "Engaged isn't married, you've still got a chance" Me: "I appreciate that that's your respond" My wife: "I know how important this is to you."

anyways the problem with the Democratic Party is not the language its leaders use but the principles they lack if you know what you believe in it’s not actually that complicated to express it effectively

Didn't this product idea fail already? Google Glass? Those Meta VR things? Nobody wants this.

This makes me happy. Rare statement: Even though these guys are among my high school favorites, their most recent album is (in my opinion) their strongest. I've always loved them, but The Elevator has made me cry on multiple occasions. Anyway, go listen to @guster.bsky.social on TinyDesk.

Ah yes, that familiar professor moment where you go from "how am I supposed to fill this semester up with lectures?" to "Oh god, there is so much I'm leaving out. Can this class actually be its own degree program?"

I would 100% give up Florida to end the Russia/Ukraine war.

Once again begging any of our institutions to have as much integrity and fortitude as *checks notes* the host of a television show for children.

I fixed it.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I'm offended by the true mediocrity of these people.

"Music has shape and structure, a form of architecture that exists in a single dimension: time. Composers are architects of time, none more so than the extraordinary composer, and yes, architect, Iannis Xenakis." The Musical Architecture of Iannis Xenakis:

"I’d [previously] found political music to often be about the message, but not the music. With Electrelane, Le Tigre, Lesbo Pig, Leopard Leg, you could do something political, queer, feminist, gay, and you could make really great music" #DaleCornish on Electrelane - The Power Out buff.ly/8qSjM3e

More no input mixer music! This is another live improvisation on the no-input mixer. I'm enjoying finding new sounds and developing more nuance with the gestures. Available for free! grizwaldmusic.bandcamp.com/track/nimb-8...

The actual male power fantasy is a friend or neighbor needing to borrow a specific and uncommon tool and you have one.

Dude, my buddy had woodworking clamps and he brought them over to the house so we could fix the dining room table my wife thrifted and everyone in this story was delighted.

Does anyone know if there's a recording of Nathalie Joachim's cello concerto, "Had to Be" out there? I'd like to share it with my Music of the African Diaspora class this semester.