DC -tonight, Loadbang give a concert of Peabody Conservatory Composition Faculty works. Come hear Macklay, Lara, Bettison and Hersch, tonight at 7pm. peabody.jhu.edu/concert-even...

NYC Gig Alert: A premiere and album release, this Sunday afternoon (March 9th) with the wonderful loadbang See you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/loadbang-p...

Album release!

If they're willing to look past the "not being C of E" technicality, I could probably do this: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amazing. I mean, this is the point of the "Lost City of Z", but modern technology has proved it: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Dear spammers, If you are going to spam me with a fake invoice: 1) My name is definitely not "Oscarb Ettison" 2) Please up the resolution on the file, so it looks less like it was scanned by a fax machine in the late 80s. Love 'n' kisses, Me.

I wrote to my Congress Person yesterday. This is her today. Thank you, Rep. McIver. Keep on going.

I am at home with a pukey 8 y.o. It's no good. One silver lining is that no one else in the family has this malady, and I'm really hoping it'll stay that way.

Gen X finally gets someone in power (in the US) from the generation, and it's Elon fucking Musk. That's pretty much the most Gen X thing ever.

At Peabody I'm giving a presentation on Andriessen "De Staat", putting it into historical context this afternoon, before giving our department seminar on my piece "On the slow weather of dreams" for the same ensemble.

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

There's was a defective motion detector in my office at Peabody, that clicked every 2 seconds. I had that for 4 hours yesterday and 3 today, and I had finally reached my breaking point (it was getting impossible for me to concentrate to teach) when the maintenance guys arrived and shut it down.

Robert F. Kenney got into Harvard by submitting an application that was a single page long and consisted entirely of his name. Here's why it's time to end DEI.

Self promo time: this summer I am teaching in Longy's Divergent Studio, along with Pamela Z. Applications due in a couple of weeks, details here: longy.edu/study/diverg...

They're worried about intellectual property theft? Oh come on, this is getting too funny now: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Don't be that guy, mf'ers.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

My train has currently stopped on the "Trenton Makes" bridge, so I thought you'd like a photo.

Absolutely. I saw it years ago, and it's still indelibly inscribed on my memory. I can't recommend it enough.

More composers and performers on bluesky:

My first day back teaching at Peabody for the spring semester. Looking forward to seeing what music my students have written over the break.

Having spent a week in the Midwest, the weather in the East Coast doesn't feel so bad. Mixed feelings about this, tbh.

I'm on the train to Baltimore and I caught myself doom scrolling politics, which was really getting me down, but then I decided to listen to Al Green instead, and I feel much better now.

A shitty sign I saw.

Welcome to Bluesky @theritenotes.bsky.social -you're my 1,000 follower!

999 followers. Who (not a bot) will be my 1,000th?

And we have finished recording the album! Thanks to the wonderful Alarm Will Sound and everyone involved. I can't wait for it to come out.

Tonight, in Columbia, Missouri: www.alarmwillsound.com/alarm-will-s...

On a different subject all together, I am loving the US/UK Robbie Williams thing. Americans: I don't know who that is! Brits: But, he's universally loved! Me: I do know who he is, I find him quite annoying, and I find this "universally loved" thing mawkish.

Sometimes things are simple. For example, people who give Nazi salutes are Nazis.

It is -16C here (3F, I believe) currently. I might wait until it hits the balmy heights of -10C before heading outside...

I am in Missouri, and in true British fashion I want to talk about the weather, but what is there to say apart from "It's fucking freezing"? At least it isn't more fucking freezing? I dunno...

Hello Missouri, where I am recording with the incredible Alarm Will Sound.

I had some lovely meetings about upcoming projects this weekend and today. I'm really excited and am looking forward to getting stuck in to writing these pieces, but for now, it's on with revising this current thing.

Don't make me agree with Steve Bannon. I hate it here.

Peer pressure meant that I shovelled the snow outside my house. There was very little, but I felt guilty, being the only unshovelled house. Now, an hour later the little test patch I left alone has melted by itself.

Hilarious. I had to explain a couple of the tags to my oldest, but it gets belly laughs from 10 y.o. demographic too.

After lots of failed attempts, I might have found a solution...

Good result for Fulham. I always worry, but 4-1 is pretty emphatic. Raúl with another penalty, Muniz goal looked lovely (great assist from Adama), and our defenders got involved too. Nice one.

¡Eso es! www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

Trying to work out some revisions to a piece. This is a tricky one, as there's nothing in the original that I dislike or that I think doesn't work, it just needs something else. It's much easier when you can say "That's the problem" or "I don't like that". Hmmm...

Ah, some real life new followers, mostly fellow musicians no less! Hello, folks!

Is it just me or have the bots on here increased substantially over the last few days?

Magnificent:

I have booked all my travel for the upcoming semester. Please clap.

Atheist Vinegar. Probably not the most appealing stripper name...

Yup. In what I've seen, there seems to be a tech-ability sweet spot of people born mid 70s to some point in the late 90s. Either side of that, and it's a lottery.

That Beyonce half time show was pretty darn spectacular, IMHO.

Youngest daughter received an audio device for Christmas. I forgot that, when I set it up, I signed her into my account, and she's been listening to Taylor Swift for over an hour now, likely denting my algorithm. Both daughters: "Haha. Oh well, I guess you're a Swifty, now". I suppose I am.