So glad to be back in Ithaca and our beloved garagery back in action. Aaron Russell performing now.

The new surprise Pigeon Pit album is so lovely, like a more punk but country influenced best moments of the Mountain Goats before that was swallowed up into the music industry and stopped being something I recognized. ernestjenning.limitedrun.com/products/870...

Not that I’m surprised, but these losers wouldn’t give $500k to our local bus system - which operates for free for Cornell students - to avoid service cuts.

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

every time a boomer retires an angel gets its wings

I wrote an essay on @defector.com about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to @laurentheisen.bsky.social it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!

Last night in NYC for the Performa Biennial I had the great pleasure of spending some more time with inti figgis-vizueta, Lulu West, and Andrew Yee following a screening of Contralto where we talked about the GLISS residency and other stuff.

Zohran says you’re trans now

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

gotta say it’s really wild to see that a candidate who wants to tax billionaires and not kill trans people could win

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

dismantle the boomerocracy

here's a great review of our show in Donaueschingen by the legendary Paul Griffiths in which he says "i'm not staying up for this" and just watches some videos instead disgwylfa.substack.com/p/on-missing...

Tomorrow night as part of the 2025 Performa Biennial, a rare NYC screening of "Contralto" along with a panel discussion full of queens with me, inti figgis-vizueta, Andrew Yee, and Lulu West: performa2025.org/hub/a-voice-...

did you know I recorded a marimba solo? I worked really hard on it for like a year! it's almost 50 years old! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxu...

think I’m taking child to see Rubber O Cement tomorrow

we recorded Rrose Sélavy today and it is so so good.

If anyone with money wants to get in on the ground floor of a billion dollar industry, I’d like to introduce into Europe the queen size mattress

The true source of the Danube River or a dirty birdbath? You decide.

"The Blue Hour" for violin and piano premieres tonight in Donaueschingen by Duo Saviet/Houston - dress rehearsal today was stunning, really proud of this huge work. www.swr.de/donauesching...

I have been stopping at this gas station in Stone Ridge NY for seven years and this weird gross little red plastic pot has not moved an inch in that entire time. I need to know what it is and why it’s here but I cannot ask.

took a bus from Ithaca to see this tonight and boy am I excited www.ifccenter.com/films/no-you...

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Duo with @successfulartist.bsky.social will perform December 6th at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut in conjunction with a new exhibit by visual artist Zak Prekop thealdrich.org/events/perfo...

true love

dear internet new music hive mind, another student question: what are some good/interesting experimental bassoon pieces? I can only think of one by Nicolaus Huber.

October 22nd in Berlin at KM28, Manufaktur für Aktuelle Musik performs my arrangement of "Rrose Selavy" by Juan Hidalgo along with other work by me. I'll be there playing the bowed hacksaw blade on snare drum. www.km28.de

I wrote liner notes for this new album by David First that is a stone cold masterpiece moderecords.bandcamp.com/album/revolu...

How is this not the top headline on every single news site?

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Saviet/Houston Duo perform Sarah Hennies’ The Blue Hour (UK Premiere) at hcmf// 2025. 90 minutes of hypnotic repetition and fragile cycles. Violin and piano become a space to inhabit. 🗓️ 25 Nov, 12pm | 📍 St Paul's Hall 🎟️ £18 / £23.40 / £7 U30 Get your tickets now: hcmf.co.uk/programme/sa...

I never really listened to Fugazi’s “End Hits” because it came out at a time when I was totally checked out of rock music but I gotta tell ya, it’s really fuckin good!

World premiere at Donaueschingen Musiktage in just a few weeks. Can't wait to be at both of these festivals!

Crispin Glover and new Breen announcement in the same week? Have I died?

We have a winner.

no one has ever made the headset mic look cool. it can’t be done.

I had a trans surgery and I can confirm that it was radical.

I'm inputting a piece into my notation software from paper score I wrote 25 years ago in grad school to arrange it into a new piece for andPlay and as you can see my work has changed a lot in a quarter century

OMFG CRISPIN GLOVER FINISHED THE TRILOGY I THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD NEVER COME youtu.be/3grQdSO8jfA

I just spent ten minutes writing and not posting replies to Mariah Carey’s “my perfect 10” pitchfork post about how she should have been honest and said “Bird Seed by Whitehouse”

full set of Maher Shalal Hash Baz from Cafe Oto last spring. Very very beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HAf...

class prep

I’ve listened to this song about 40 times now and I’m convinced there’s something *really* funny about it that will one day reveal itself to me youtu.be/HIrNvQq0lG4?...

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on the Marchetti-ish tip, we will be performing my arrangement of Juan Hidalgo's "Rrose Selavy" in Berlin next month at KM28 on October 22nd

as far as obituaries go, you'd be hard pressed to do better than this.

Doing an online workshop about rhythm for @campfr.bsky.social - see details at the link below!

Invited my dad to my show tomorrow and he said “let me know if you find the charger to my leaf blower.”

It has been over a year and a pretty hard slog but today I am finished with "The Blue Hour" for violin and piano, composed for Sarah Saviet & Joe Houston which will get its premiere at Donaueschingen Musiktage on October 18th and a UK premiere @hcmfuk.bsky.social in November.

cooked up something real nice for my show tomorrow night in Ithaca with Keur Neuringer/Luke Stewart, Kyle Kidd, and Flose.