
Hurtling Through Space with a Head Full of Doubt
A piano, a sine wave, and a dirty tape delay sing a quiet tune. Your life support capsule is dead quiet. The rumble of afterburners has...


Benny Hill meets Brahms
Sometimes, just sometimes, one can be working on composing music for a commissioned piece and the inevitable and unavoidable happens. The...


The First Few Hours
You never know what's going to happen. Truly. I found myself humming a tune quietly under my breath the morning my son was born. I say...

Stargirl Scene
It's been a slight bit slow for the past 18 months allowing for substantial practice time, reflection, refraction, and invention. I was...


Virtuosity, fatherhood, or composing. Pick two.
Our son, Dorian, was born in 2015. In the month of Rocktober. He wasn't super psyched early on about being out and about in the world so...

Sight reading?! Argh
This pic snapped during a recent Skype session reveals the true feelings harbored by most young guitarists when it comes to sight...
Toshiko Akiyoshi
I recently learned of this woman, this amazing musician and pianist named Toshiko Akiyoshi, by way of a certain NPR broadcast. Those of...


The Drag About Practice
When I sat down to practice as a kid, there was something natural about the way that I played. There was a certain 'proficiency naturale'...