From the category archives:
I was saddened to see that two blocks from my home, the last sheet music store in Los Angeles, Hollywood Sheet Music, has closed its doors. Petelson’s days are numbered, so I hear. (Can’t they just move to an online business??)
With Ralph Jackson and Mark Carlson at lunch yesterday, we wondered about the future of [...]
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I just picked up Daniel Levitin’s new book “The World in Six Songs.” A thrilling read and is truly coloring the way I think of music nowadays. Quite refreshing.
I had grown tired of listening to our local classical radio station playing Vivaldi and Telemann all the time, and news just makes me nervous these days, [...]
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A mosaic of Jupiter’s ring system, acquired by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft when the Sun was behind the planet, and the spacecraft was in Jupiter’s shadow peering back toward the Sun. (NASA/JPL/Cornell University)
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I have a wall of LPs in my office. It’s not that I am one of those people who insist LPs are better and warmer, I just don’t see the point in replacing them with a CD unless it has a skip or is defective somehow.
I say this, but truth be told, my LP player [...]
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Here is a brilliant comeback by Larry David for those moments where you are trapped with someone shouting into a bluetooth headset, oblivious that s/he is annoying everyone.
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Daniel just put a down payment on our next car, an Aptera. Here is the note he sent to our family:
After close to four years of being a single-car household, Roger and I have decided to reserve an Aptera in hopes it will be our second car in 2009. The plug-in hybrid model costs less [...]
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I am sitting in O’Hare Airport waiting for my flight back to Los Angeles, practicing typing on my new iPhone. Slowly, but surely. Much to report on my return. Tomorrow will be my first day on the job as Chair of the UCLA Music Department and am looking forward to it. Be back soon!
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Yes, my spell check freaks out when I type “messenging.” [No wonder, it's messaging silly. I created a verb out of Instant Messenger, and what the messenges sent were messenges. Duh...]
I celebrate instant messaging. My parents are always on IM, as are 10 other of my good friends at any one time. It doesn’t mean [...]
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“Music textiles” is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. It was developed by Vincent Roudaud and Maurin Donneaud.
My fantasy runs wild: I imagine a new line of clothes where each piece of clothing is programmed to make a sound when touched. I could imagine my pants being a soft rain that fades [...]
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