Who cares if you care?

Where’s Zankel’s stage door? I’m already 19 years late for my concert!
My friends Matt Marks and Brian Sacawa have been kicking out articles over the past few days in response to a fairly contentious piece on eighth blackbird’s blog. Topics under discussion include:

Is classical music still “relevant?”
Is the new “alt-classical” movement a revolution or [...]

OAQ (Occasionally Asked Questions)

Here are some questions (and corresponding answers) that I seem to be asked fairly often. I’m not asked them often enough to make this a real FAQ, and personal FAQs are boring and narcissistic; it’s likely that the question I’m asked the most often is “Would you like room for milk?”

Autechre musings

A few years ago, I had the pleasure of arranging Autechre’s “Cfern” for Alarm Will Sound. Doing an arrangement requires you to listen over and over again to little bits of a piece at a time, which is an entirely weird sort of listening experience and allows you to hear all kinds of stuff that you might otherwise miss.