One of those times when I thought I was just passing by, and then couldn't resist writing!

It often feels that we are setting a record of the largest amount of interesting new music events per day, and this month it's actually true. Good luck choosing on June 5th, 6th, 20th and especially the 13th! (We try to be selective, sometimes it's just too hard.)

Please donate for sky defence in Ukraine, if you can! The neighbourhood where I lived for 2 years is completely destroyed, including a subways station, shopping mall, drama theatre, many civilian houses.

Just in case 70+ concerts in 14 venues this weekend are not enough, go to Maryland or Vienna! extendedtechniques.com/2026/04/30/n...

Very excited to give a lecture for this course about Ukrainian music! Register for the course or selected days. Mine is on June 23.

Paul Pinto’s Octet is unlike anything you’ve heard before, unless you’ve heard Julia Wolfe’s Forbidden Love, or Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko’s Mariupol. Still, the shower of flying pencils was a new experience for me. Imagine what he will do in his opera? (Livestream in comments.)

So many important points about our current condition and the power of slow listening!

We are happy to announce the third panel of our event series on May 20, featuring Madina Tlostanova, Mykola Riabchuk, Emily Channell-Justice, and Tamar Koplatadze! Moderated by Olha Korniienko. www.eventbrite.com/e/epistemic-...

April in New York! extendedtechniques.com/2026/03/31/n...

Today's the day. America has no king. Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom. #NoKings Find your event: www.nokings.org

This is my hometown. Just a few months ago, around the corner from this UNESCO "protected" heritage site, I had coffee with my best friend and spent four hours discussing how to be kind and loving, and write more meaningful music, poetry, and prose in this collapsing world.

A bit too late for World Poetry Day, but this is how I feel now.

A poem from a book published in 2024. For many, it seems like it was published just recently...

My best friend has turned 11! He is:

Yesterday I wrote 5 program notes, ~150 words each, a long journal entry about my book chapter (why it is important and what should be in it), and a 2-page poem about migraine. Can I consider it a productive writing day? Nothing typed in a document towards book progress...

On #InternationalWomensDay #IWD I want to highlight the music of Ukrainian composer Hanna Havrylets (1958–2022), who died due to lack of medical care during the Russian attack on Kyiv. Her music is simple and pure, frequently compared with the “new simplicity” of Arvo Pärt. Two works in comments.

If this day means anything at all...

On March 1, at PW, Dakhabrakha moved from abstract sadness to heartbreaking images of war, to bright hope, reminding me of many Jewish holidays' theme: “They tried to kill us, but we survived - let's celebrate!” What would Adorno say about art if the war he lived through lasted more than 4 years?

A must read for music students and teachers, or anyone who uses LLM for research. I was aware of its hallucinations, but the distortions in the "analysis" it provides are quite chilling. Leah's answers in the comments about why that is are also worth checking out.

So many new sounds to explore in New York this March! extendedtechniques.com/2026/03/01/n...

Perhaps it would be appropriate to program this concert at the Kennedy Center, if it remained the old version of itself www.nyphil.org/concerts-tic...

@yuliyayurchuk.bsky.social and I are organizing the Prairie Conference in Ukrainian Studies. Please consider applying and share widely. Date: April 30–May 3, 2026 Deadline: March 10, 2026 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Details: networks.h-net.org/system/files...

Does he even know how "uncivilized" Beethoven was in his manners? Not to mention his liberal politics... Would these fascists please get their hands off music?

Ukraine Decolonial Studies Network announces an open call for papers for our panel series, which will be held at the 58th ASEEES Convention. Please send your titles and abstracts (up to 200 words) of your proposed papers to our email address: [email protected] by February 20, 2026

I’ll be on CBC News’s “The National” tonight at 9pm talking about the Grammys and protest music. I must be on some sort of list, or perhaps considered handsome for Canada — I get interviewed a lot about protest music on Canadian television!

Really, from now on, I'm just going to post about music and am not going to read anything on any social media.

Today's timeline is completely about fundamentally unhappy people - those who will never feel enough. Finally, a post about one fundamentally happy person. Perhaps we can focus more on this kind...

any ideas if this will be worth watching? nyuskirball.org/events/krame... timeout's characterisation of Fish as someone who “delights in making strange things even stranger” intrigued me

"In the streets, in the schools, in the Signal threads, in all our places of healing and justice, we are as locusts." A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis by Joey Glick:

Ġugar (hangout & bar) Valletta, Malta 📷: Omaldo Perez

What happens when musical instruments stop making sound and start making information? Prof. Theodore Gordon explores how early thinking machines reshaped modern music and our ideas of creativity in his new book, “The Composer’s Black Box”

In his recent op-ed, Oleh Kotsyuba of Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute compares the current protests in Minneapolis to Ukraine's 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity, noting similarities in both the staging and spirit of both events.

I think I'm in a sweet spot between striving and enjoying. Are you?

Music theory teachers! My department at NYU created an amazing free public collection of online resources and examples, including a huge body of pop examples. They want you to use it! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...

The New York-based DIY show listings zine GUNK published this list of local small-scale music venues that closed in 2025. It is so hard to keep a community-oriented music space open in this city. I really hope whoever leads Cultural Affairs for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will take this seriously.

It was a pleasure to share a few words about my favorite read of the year with one of my favorite podcasts, though fitting all my thoughts into 90 seconds felt like an impossible challenge. Looking forward to reading some of the books shared by others!

Happy New Year! Happy New Music!!! extendedtechniques.com/2025/12/31/n...

A new and possibly best performance of a rare recent piece that I believe will become a classic. Zoltan Almashi's Maria's City, dedicated to the city of Mariupol. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwIC...

Pinya is ready for Super New Masada. After an introduction to Anthony Braxton's language music, he completed Klezpainting workshop conducted by Walter Thompson's offspring Sam Day Harmet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFV...

This semester I taught an entire lecture about John Zorn. Student feedback was just as expected. One student said Zorn “should not be studied.” Another one said Zorn was her most favorite, especially the Masada. Both quoted my article about Zorn’s open works in their final essay!

Happy Hannukah from generation Alpha! photos.google.com/share/AF1Qip...

New York in December! extendedtechniques.com/2025/12/01/n...

Any colleagues attending ASEEES25? See you there!

From pianist Igor Levit, the opening of Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" (1975) 👊

New York in November! extendedtechniques.com/2025/10/31/n...

What a delightful conversation about writing history as an art. i've been thinking about this a lot and now get a specific advice on how to do this.

Arvo Pärt indeed figured out how to draw audiences to new music. From young to old, hipsters to fashion ladies to real music connosieurs. His avant-garde opuses stood the test of time. The most amazing were the violinints, Midori and Hans Christian Aavik, they showed that Tabula Rasa has future.

Best protest music ever!