Feb 4 at @roulettenyc.bsky.social ! Talk & performance for The Composer's Black Box w/Marcia Bassett, @kfw.bsky.social, Luke Stewart. Such an honor for me to talk with such amazing musicians about agency, subjectivity, creativity, discipline, & so much more... roulette.org/event/mixolo...

Publication day! I couldn’t be happier that The Composer’s Black Box is now officially available from @ucpress.bsky.social and your favorite bookseller! Here are some of my copies taking their natural place on my bookshelf. Grab a copy here: www.ucpress.edu/books/the-co...

So psyched for this book event at @roulettenyc.bsky.social !

Very happy with the cover design for The Composer’s Black Box, out in December 2025 from @uc_press. I did the annoying thing and asked them to change the color blocks to Buchla 100 series colors and they somehow agreed!

do you think frasier crane was an ECM guy or a windham hill guy

my students will say this is from "the late 1900s" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopX...

forensic musicologists of bluesky: can anybody ID the drum machine used on this track? www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbE4...

orthographic error of the day: "john lenin"

HASTINGS: I say, Poirot, this vial’s labeled “hyaluronic acid”! Is it a poison? SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: Non, mon ami. This acid, it replenishes the skin’s barrier naturale HASTINGS: So this is a gal who takes care of her skin. SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: *irritated* The gentleman may use it as well

TIL that in 1991 Tom Waits won a $2.6mil settlement from Frito-Lay over a SalsaRio Doritos commercial that impersonated his “raspy, gravelly singing voice”: casetext.com/case/waits-v...

And I also remembered that they were basically pioneers of video synthesis (e.g. their use of Scanimate for the "Let's Groove" video in 1981) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrle...

TIL that Earth, Wind & Fire attempted to go new jack swing and it did not really go well for them www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHxl...

Teaching 1970s Black technopoetics (Chude-Sokei) today, and very pleased to be reminded of both David Copperfield's and the Brecker Brothers' involvement in early P-Funk mythology www.youtube.com/watch?v=noqM...