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!

NYC today!

October in New York! extendedtechniques.com/2025/10/01/n...

The best way to celebrate a composer’s birthday is to listen to their music the way they intended it. Pauline Oliveros’s 80th, Terry Riley’s 90th, and Valentyn Sylvestrov’s 88th (yesterday). It's impossible to find a point of comparison. One thing I can say for sure, at the latter I cried the most.

Join us tomorrow for a book talk by our Executive Board member, Svitlana Biedarieva! Organized by the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute as part of the Decolonizing Ukrainian Studies event series. www.huri.harvard.edu/event/svitla...

Okkyung Lee ~ just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities acloserlisten.com/2025/09/13/o...

What you need today: Arvo Pärt is 90 Years Old, the latest at KillYrIdols open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...

Today is the birthday of Theodor W. Adorno, Arvo Pärt, and Victoria Poleva. Since most here are familiar with the men, I will be posting some of Poleva's music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfL...

It was a delight to run into a mention of Victoria Poleva's Ode to Joy in this essay on Beethoven by Maria Popova. Referencing the concert commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she concludes: (a thread) soundcloud.com/victoria-pol...

With a new teaching load and other projects, I finished the calendar only on September 3rd! Luckily, there were no events before today, so this can count as the official start of the month for new music listeners!

Keep running into wonderfully strange ensembles in Estonia! kultuur.err.ee/302508/peete...

The key word here is "attempts." Indeed an enjoyable book, basically proving that really loving the art makes it almost impossible to hate its creator. (My observation of Tchaikovsky's admirers supports this claim.)

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon. But she was one of the first artists to make conceptual art, and the creator of one of the movement’s masterpieces.

August used to be a boring month for a new music listener in NYC. Then, one after another, arts organizations decided to take advantage of lack of events and plan a festival, a music series, a residency... Now August is a busy month, just like any other month. extendedtechniques.com/2025/08/01/n...

Looking forward to this documentary!

"Where is the Original?" - A story for a possible article about stealing/borrowing practice in Soviet art.