Feeling grateful for the mentorship and community that make things like this possible. Excited for what 2026 may bring!

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🎶 New paper! InCHORRRuS Framework: Infant-directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure Led by Camila Alviar, we consider how caregivers modulate their communication to 👶, including through song: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What a productive year for the BHaSHa group at VUMC! I'm so grateful to be a part of this team.

Interested in rhythm and communication? Infant-directed speech and song? Social and language development in autism? Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab is recruiting a postdoc focused on these areas! #musicscience redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=N...

a felicitous return to pedal steel this month. the cat approves!

cool article on speech-to-song in cochlear implant users! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #musicscience #neuroscience

In '23 I wrote on metaphor, language, and musicality across the lifespan. So grateful to put thoughts to writing! Still learning about rational implementation, but it'd be cool to study musical & language metaphor / neuro perspectives through a generational lens... #linguistics #musicscience"

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Last month I got to write a column in Premier Guitar about Kemper Amps. Best piece of gear I've ever bought! #musictech #kemperamps #guitarist #guitartech

in case anyone else in the blue sky is stuck the history of telephones and DTMF dialing... what an invention... ! a friend used to tell me he would tune his bass to A-440 using phone dial tones... it's fun to revisit that from this direction 😆

east nashville community, put on those dancin shoes and come see RAYGUN this Saturday night (6-8pm) at The 5 Spot! +mention you saw this post on bluesky, and I'll use an item of your own choosing for a slide guitar solo. 👀🎶

a new student is fervently emailing me about Herbie Hancock and I have sooo much to give him. a former student started college this month and recently opened for Squeeze. another is texting me from Pompei about ancient acoustic design. agh my teacher heart is so full 💛🎸

Hi bluesky, I'm here to follow/learn/connect on music science and other related things. Got to attend icmpc17 on zoom which was really nice! Will inevitably post about guitars and other eclectic interests.