this is a very Kentucky album, everything except the mastering was done here; funded by KY Arts council and KY Historical Society. all indie, no label. i had to figure out how to get a UPC code. fictivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...

this is a very Kentucky album, everything except the mastering was done here; funded by KY Arts council and KY Historical Society. all indie, no label. i had to figure out how to get a UPC code. fictivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...

Shameless plug: On sale now for just $15, includes my thoughts on the "southernmost midwest or northernmost southern" city debate... www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

Humbly presenting to the void: today is new album release eve. Tomorrow you can get hear my second piano trio "Payne Hollow," inspired by Harlan and Anna Hubbard who lived deliberately on the banks of the Ohio. Recorded by local group NouLou Chamber Players. fictivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...

This is the metaphor

Imagine being known for getting the end-of-the-world prophecy wrong. How do you pivot from that?

“This is an extremely primitive and paranoid culture.”

Just purchased: redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/linda-...

Obviously I will be there

Today is Bandcamp Friday. 100% of sales go to the artists. My new album is available for pre-order on digital and vinyl (and a bundle) and is VERY Kentucky, with liner notes by Jessica K. Whitehead, album design by Sarah Flood-Baumann, and the whole thing was recorded by the legendary Dave Chale.

ChickPEACE

Talked to composer Claude Baker about coming back to Louisville with a work the LO commissioned in the 80s www.lpm.org/classical/20...

Was on alma mater station 89.3 WFPL @lpm.org talking to KYCIR’s @morganwatkins.lpm.org about my recent reporting in the Intercept on a horrific case of ICE detention in KY and a family‘s legal battles to stop his deportation. You can listen and read more updates here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Talked to Robert Spano about growing up in new music: finally conducting your childhood idols. He’s also got three operas on his bucket list. www.lpm.org/classical/20...

The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-smile-of-the-flamboyant-wings

This was a great session and so grateful for #KEXP and Larry Mizell Jr for having us in the studio back in August 5th while on the Less Than Jake summer circus… much love.

not true

Apropos, this is a thing I’m releasing soon. On vinyl. Maybe CD. fictivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/piano-...

Gen X dad here. Can confirm this is the thing. Keep your CDs folks.

it's 1991, time to wreck shop

NASA has announced its newest astronaut class. Two of the 10 members are from near Louisville. www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...

St John Center is on a mission to help our Louisville neighbors leave homelessness for good via our Day Shelter & Social Services Center, Street Outreach, and Permanent Supportive Housing programs. This is the our biggest (and my only) online fundraising day of the year. You can be a part of it here

I’m outta here as soon as I fix the flux capacitor

Opportunity (50) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKTP4N

Find someone to hold you the way Robert Redford held a cup

Probably should get a drink of pure grain alcohol and rain water

I was teaching music theory 101 at KU and one of my students mentioned that she thought she heard someone flew their plane into one of the WTC buildings. I think we all thought it was some kind of accident, and I kept teaching.

There was no Oval Office address after Melissa Hortman’s assassination

Ampurdanese Landscape,

I can handle a group text of 3 people max.

Georges Bizet’s

I personally overheard this call, and I am so proud of our intern for how calm and cool he remained, asking politely for the mayor's spokesperson to stop yelling at him while continuing the discussion. www.lpm.org/investigate/...

Two sharps…looks like we’re in D major... D in the left hand…looking good…oh god…

if you do this to me i will cancel the interview and remove you from consideration... from all jobs forever

Today's the day. 406 years ago today, when a Dutch ship called the White Lion brought some "twenty and odd Negroes" who they'd captured from a Portuguese ship to the shores of Virginia. One year before the Mayflower, Black history continued on American soil

Pierrot Lunaire

I’ll know within two minutes if I’ve been nominated for the Nobel peace fries

winterloops Coming soon…along with Piano Trio No. 2 “Payne Hollow”

We love Coleridge-Taylor in Louisville—he’s often programmed on our great radio station WUOL by @dgill.bsky.social and colleagues, my chamber group recently performed C-T’s terrific Nonet, and we even have a public elementary school named after him.

winterloops Coming soon…along with Piano Trio No. 2 “Payne Hollow”

a passion project for me is zipper merge. maybe when it's widely adopted in louisville, that will be my legacy.

Louisville: would love to see you at the next New Lens (a concert series I curate through WUOL in partnership with 21c Museum Hotel Louisville) presenting guitarist @jamiemonck.bsky.social, a thoughtful artist & lovely human. Sunday at 7pm. Free.

Works well. Gts next time dg

So in the app it’s easy to do. Not sure about desktop yet. Hold please.