My first job in the music industry was working at Sequential Circuits in the 1980s. The recent passing of Sequential’s founder Dave Smith has me nostalgic for the opportunities I didn’t realize at the time he was giving me. I share some of those memories in this...
Last month I played at the Mountain Skies 2022 Electronic Music Festival, where over 20 acts performed. Watching them got me thinking a lot more about how we can make our performances more accessible to our audiences; that’s the subject of the main article this...
What happened to April?!? I swear we were only a couple of weeks into it, and suddenly it’s over. I guess the same thing could be said about the first third of this year – it seems like a lot has happened in the world a very short period of time. Let me catch a quick...
It’s busy times here: Last month, I was one of a set of musicians who performed an ambient gig at Currents 826 gallery; that’s the subject of this month’s main article, as well as a few recent Patreon posts. On April 1 (no joke) I premiered a new performance for...
I’m in the middle of a few projects right now, so I’m afraid this newsletter will be briefer than normal. Hopefully I can start to catch up next month. But in the meantime, here’s what’s been happening: featured article: The power system in new gigging case. Alias...
