A piece for solo cello for performance with a recording of itself, playing in 1-2 devices set on continuous random play. The piece may also be performed by 2-4 players, with or without the recordin...

The Composition Strategy Cards are used as a creative springboard for creating new pieces of music. They are interesting in that every aspect of the process is reduced to a random event, which elim...

A short but effective exercise in playing modes over chord changes.

This is an info graphic I created while working on the 'Color of Sound' project, which mapped a visual interpretation of pitch to sound and music (applying it to CMYK, RGB, paint pigments, etc. an...

The term "borrowed" refers to a type of alternate harmonization of a given melody by using chords from another mode. This technique can be used to create contrast and interest by expanding the univ...

With every new technology comes a whole new set of definitions for art. And in the infancy of new technologies, we are initially unsure of how to use the new media, and consequently we apply old te...

The most interesting thing about the camera is that it brings things into context, and the viewer adds the missing pieces.

In 1965 we were approaching the boundary, in 1966 we crossed it, and by 1967 we had established a new “sovereignty” of American (and world) culture. By 1970, the psychedelic period was over, but it...

The easy assumption about jazz is that it is free, or that it represents attempts at freedom, and makes it seem easy to evoke an spirit of an unbounded freedom. In fact, the driving force behind ja...