20 July 2014

MFA Graduation Recital Program Notes (iii):
Why I Hate Program Notes (and you should too)
Part 1 of 4

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“Program notes are... required?” “For a tuba recital?!” “At CalArts?!!” “Really?!!!!” For the whole of my musical adulthood, I hav...
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MFA Graduation Recital Program Notes (ii):
Program

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California Institute of the Arts Herb Alpert School of Music presents Unidisciplinarity a one-man tuba recital by Performer-Composer Ste...

MFA Graduation Recital Program Notes (i):
Post-Prelude – Author’s Meta Program Note

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Among the very first creative artifacts I produced after embarking upon graduate music study at the California Institute of the Arts in Sept...
05 April 2014

[sc]airquotes (vi)

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"The Partnership for 21st-Century Skills, a coalition of business and education leaders and policy makers, found, for example, that edu...
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03 February 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (vii): "fuck prejudice!"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) – (iii) – (iv) – (v) – (vi) ] [SK] Just one thought this time, regarding the academy broadly con...
02 February 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (vi): "a desolate marketplace"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) – (iii) – (iv) – (v) ] [SK] I think there are many shades of grey on the autodidacticism spectrum...
01 February 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (v): "the wherewithal to examine it ruthlessly"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) – (iii) – (iv) ] [SK] You're absolutely correct that versatility has been co-opted, and in qui...
31 January 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (iv): "if you don't like the world, change yourself"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) – (iii) ] [SK] Not that it's of much consequence, but I guess I should clarify what I meant abo...
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30 January 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (iii): "a smattering of constants"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) – (ii) ] [SK] The delivery of a consistent product does seem to be a non-negotiable demand of "careeri...
28 January 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (ii) – "*every* survival strategy is fraught with pitfalls"

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[Previously: Foreword – (i) ] [SK] At the risk of both lapsing into cliches and miring us unduly deep in the critical theory labyrinth, ...
27 January 2014

Exchange with Milo Fine (i): "illuminating another course of action"

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[Previously: Foreword ] [SK] So, I didn't have to read too far before a conversation starter presented itself: "[The New River...
26 January 2014

Interview Exchange with Milo Fine: Foreword

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Milo Fine is a Minneapolis-based multi-instrumentalist improvisor with whom I have had the great pleasure of both making and discussing musi...
19 January 2014

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31 October 2013

BM6 In 'n' Outro: Staying Power

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We've made it. Here we are. Settings have been appropriately toggled so as to display the entire opus on the front page, though it seems...
30 October 2013

Choice Nuggets As Always From G.E.L.

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George E. Lewis deals to New Music Box: I was communicating and trying to reflect at the same time how else to communicate. I began to de...
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