#Rush is absolutely incinerating the United Center tonight! And Annika is fucking CRUSHING IT🔥🔥🔥

Absolutely devouring Marcel Schwob’s unsettling collection of stories, “The King in the Golden Mask.” Sincere thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social for the life-altering recommendation!

Can I get a woot for <finally> working up the courage to GM my first #TTRPG? @goodmangames.bsky.social’s “Sailors on the Starless Sea” Fave moment: a dwarven stonemason confessing his greatest sin in front of the party in an (100% ineffective) attempt to open a door with “REPENT” painted on it.

Came for Big Brave last night but left a major (new) fan of The Body. What an enormous soundscape invigorated by just two humans… #EmptyBottle #metal #Chicago #TheBody #BigBrave

Proud to be the 341st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Blue Way: A Game of Lost Stories! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

Remembering #LindseyGraham is already my go-to move when I need my flag at half-mast

Cocaine is a hell of a drug…

The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far chart is here! But who is at number one? @normanrecords.com buff.ly/z3lSmCv

May he burn in hell. Too soon?

Itty Bitty Arditti Committee

@fire-toolz.bsky.social is one of my very favorite artists painting with sound in an utterly unique way. Literally buy all her albums post haste…

Jury duty today. Seeing a #Pride flag boldly displayed on a municipal building in this unforgivable era of white christian nationalism makes me <even more> proud to be a Chicagoan.

Nearing completion on my first-ever collection of string quartets for amateurs (minimizing the number of sharps and flats in a given piece). I call it BIG NATURALS

The funnnnest thing about music festivals is you’re having a conversation about something you think you know well, like tea or Iceland or whatever, and (inevitably) it becomes clear someone listening in is like the David Attenborough of that thing. It’s like the Nerd Olympics and it’s the best.

The new He-Man movie is MAG-NI-FI-CENT. One million stars, no notes.

If you get sunburned this season, let me caution against joking with any youths, as I did, that this is your “Peel Session.”

Panoramic shot from our performance with the 120ft video installation “150 Media Stream” in Chicago. Hand-painted animation by Anne Beal and music by Chris Zuar (piano, clarinet, and string quartet). Notably, my first time playing with Mark Dover of Imani Winds!

The love for one’s child should be unconditional…but I have entered the abyss where that love dies.

Repost with your first crush.

Riot Fest tix acquired! Looks like I’m finally going to run with the Juggalos…after getting splattered by GWAR. Fuck I love live music so hard.

Hear me out…

Who is your favorite under-the-radar artist? Mine is Connie Converse—a woman (literal decades) ahead of her time. She deserves the Vivian Maier posthumous treatment… youtu.be/74hOp5wn-Is?...

The grandest suspension of disbelief required during my X Files rewatch is…Scully buying groceries and the total is like $11.

I bet guys named “Al” are having a rough go of it these days…

Freezing my butt off—but loving life—at The Jesus and Mary Chain…all under the watchful gaze of the Sears Tower.

Fuck yeah…it’s Pixel Grip!

Very cool to hang out with Rand Steiger last night at our Grossman Ensemble show. Not only is he the former teacher of my all-time favorite composer (Anna Thorvaldsdottir), he’s composing a piece for us next season!

I think more concerts ought to feature goblin guards…as with Kreator’s blistering set last night at Ramova Theater!

Playing with the legendary Ernie Watts tonight. Don’t even worry about it.

Wait…did I tell you how amazing was the crowd at Library of Congress for Grossman Ensemble’s (inexplicably) first-ever tour date? DC was lit that night…

We’re all listening to @fire-toolz.bsky.social new one, Lavender Networks, right? Track two, Balam =^..^= is a fucking incendiary device! open.qobuz.com/album/xusep3...

Can’t talk, fam…I’m at church.

Seeing all the sights in DC!

@musicologyduck.bsky.social Lmk if you’d like to see Grossman Ensemble play Library of Congress tonight…

Just thought you all should know…

Hey opera dorks, check out who I’m hanging with tonight…

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Faetooth! They burned it the fuck down last night at Subterranean! Incredible that both openers were superb, as well. Chicago’s own Bosses and Latter were unforgettable.

Yeah, so the phrase “…is a little curt” swings pretty wildly depending on how fast you read it, no?

Delmark Records—an essential Chicago Blues label—recently updated their online shop. Highly, highly recommended... www.delmark.shop

MTT was one of the most generous artists I ever had the privilege to study with. He was a complicated guy but hot damn did we learn a lot about expression and precision. RIP to one of the best.

Don’t call me a sub with the Chicago Symphony. I’m a soft dom with the Chicago Symphony.

Good people of Chicago! Our show on Friday is sold out, but we've added a second one on Thursday. Students can use code 'SCHOOL' for $20 tix. Would love to see you there!! wl.eventim.us/event/gabrie...

In the immortal words of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, “Oh shit yeah!” www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

The phenomenal UMS performance of all 20 Philip Glass etudes (performed by 10 world-class pianists) that I led the pre-concert discussion for is streaming FREE for a limited time (8 days or so). IN particular, Inon Barnatan and Christian Sands burned it DOWN. www.youtube.com/live/e5VUO7a...

Sometimes famous composers let me hang out and ask them my nerd questions…

Fantastic news for Chicago…but I’m only in if Aerosmith’s “Love in an Elevator” is the encore

Sunn O))) last night @saltshedchicago.bsky.social with the erudite and sharp-eared @forrestaguirre.bsky.social…wearing classical music shirts like a coupla nnnnnyerds

Wondering why companies don’t court us neurodivergents harder. When we like shit we banner-wave like it’s the battle of Helms friggin’ Deep. Or semaphore enthusiasts discovering cocaine. Something.

Not replying to emails within 24hrs frequently costs me gigs…but you can’t put a price on the feeling…of not replaying to emails.