There are few pleasures in life like being an amateur. And I don’t mean that in the way that we have come to collectively view the term. An amateur isn’t a wannabe. Those are two totally different things. An amateur loves something deeply and participates in it for purely personal reasons. [...]

In graduate school there was a seminar for composers where we talked about our work and personal philosophy of music. One big questions was “are you an innovator or a more conservative composer?” Being as electronic/computer music was my focus I sided with innovator. My argument was that if one traced the [...]

I finished reading “You Are Not A Gadget” by Jaron Lanier. I don’t know to whom I would recommend the book, but I’m sure people should read it. He’s critical of technology in all the right ways and while I don’t agree with everything in the book (a manifesto) there was plenty that [...]