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This index is reversed from usual blog, which indexes the latest entries first. This is a forward-woven blog, where one day's idea moves to the next. The newest thoughts are at the end. Think of it as an unedited book in progress.

June 2006

Blogging starts with skepticism : 03
Composers' output seems meager : 04
Composer struggles & boundaries : 05
What passion drives composition? : 06
When does nonpop become cheap? : 07
I have always loved trains. Have you? : 08
Health, humanity and huckstering : 09
Composer's Guide to Nonpop's Survival : 10
On the impolitics of productivity : 11
Transformation by the commonplace : 12
Guide to Nonpop's Survival, continued : 13
Food, rubbish, and the ten audiences : 14
The Mozart-reference reverence error : 15
Loop of the extended voice : 16
Singing in the Devil's Triangle : 17
Seeing onself as the audience sees : 18
What really signifies : 19
Critic me this! : 20
Happily carrying a composer's tookit : 21
Summer's here. Let's talk tech : 22
Day jobs, gotta love 'em : 23
Composers and the performance curse : 24
Random notes after standing : 25
The manner of my work, part 1 : 26
The manner of my work, part 2 : 27
The manner of my work, part 3 : 28
The manner of my work, part 4 : 29
Giving a big, fat damn : 30

July 2006

How it all happened : 01
And what if it fails? : 02
Music, electroacoustics, and sound art : 03
Throwing off the curse : 04
Speaking truth to the capitaliban : 05
How to tell a story : 06
Lasting value : 07
The world replacing the word : 08
In the dominion of dreams : 09
Cookouts, bonfires, and tradition : 10
Forgetfulness and other thoughts : 11
New, novel, named : 12
Transformation : 13
An end to discrimination : 14
The dominatrix voice : 15
Uncommon practice and Splenda music : 16
Madness, muttering and Mozart : 17
When things go wrong : 18
Liberating the acoustic future : 19
Pleasing one other person : 20
Utility music and multiple dimensions : 21
Utility music redux : 22
Time out for vision : 23
Surfacing sources : 24
Three sources, five hours : 25
Searching for Johnny Appleseed : 26
Too much to hear : 27
So many ways to play : 28
That stab : 29
Random thoughts & open spaces : 30
Being worthy of their energy : 31

August 2006

Inverting intuition and analysis : 01
Across the lake and back : 02
Wearing other clothes : 05
Them bones, them dry bones : 07
When I am twenty-five : 08
What Heidi hath wrought : 09
Thumbs rule : 10
The Lohengrin Airlines : 11
The Third Level : 15
Swanning and nonpop : 16
Letters: practice, playing, praying : 17
A need-to-know basis : 18
The nonpop revolution : 19
The lure of the symphony : 20
Now that's funny! : 21
The farmer & the tunesmith : 22
The young philosopher-composer : 23
Progress : 24
Sluttish by excess : 25
Death : 26
The future epiphany : 27
Fat & thin : 28
A tomato for Norman : 29
Travels of the spider: 30
Grass: 31

September 2006

An electro-romantic heritage : 01
Water : 02
Dreamworld : 03
Barely Mexican : 04
Getting marked : 11
Hawking NonPop : 12
Auf'd : 13
Random old stuff : 14
Dyson's Progress, part 1 : 15
Dyson's Progress, part 2 : 17
Commercial irrelevancy : 18
Uncomfortable with the ordinary : 19
Apprehension / comprehension : 20
Time machines : 21
The pivot-point : 24
Waste of skill : 25
In the service of music : 27
Classical diaspora : 28
Personal influences, part 1 : 29
Personal influences, part 2 : 30

October 2006

Turning the knob : 01
Tweak me up, baby : 02
Meaning and notation, part 1 : 03
Meaning and notation, part 2 : 04
To exceed our tools : 05
Eventide : 06
Notation, one more time : 07
The short form : 08
Four incomplete thoughts : 09
The tsunami of despair : 10
On repetition : 11
Chance events : 13
Cleaning up the past : 14
The last to have known us : 16
Are we not Toths? : 17
Catching up : 18
Composers on the runway : 19
Making more than an ashtray : 20
Speaking its name again : 23
The abstract and the political : 24
Becoming the wolf-man : 25
Cooking : 26
Premise, effect and consequences : 27
The gimmick machine : 29

November 2006

The check valve of language : 01
Inexplicable accusations explained : 02
Passiveness : 03
La Symphonie Pastorale : 05
A day without clarity : 06
Nonpop, doggone it! : 08
The Dark Ages of Cultural History : 09
Not the Crawling Eye : 10
Kick out the bloody penguins : 11
Old is new enough : 12
Lost narrative : 16
Sniffing for historical authenticity : 17
A short story : 18
What's next? : 21
Thanksgiving : 22
Time travel and false prophets of past : 29

December 2006

Malleable regularity : 01
Thresholds of rhythm, speech and form : 02
Biological temporal modulation : 03
The cincture of perfection : 04
Rhythm in two dimensions : 05
Upgrades, engravings, and edits : 14
Thinking about tomorrow : 31

January 2007

Graffiti : 01
Toccata : 02
Candles : 03
Heavy hearts and coalescence : 24
Commissions and tradespeople : 25
Spinning the mind : 26
Dammit, it was sexy : 27
Mountains of spices : 28
Rolling culture : 30
Fear and incompetence : 31

February 2007

Traction lines and Babbitt : 02
Fat marimbas : 04
Handing over the baton : 06
Om ma ni pe me hun : 08
Agoraphobia : 10
Paying for the whiskey : 11
The Bear Ridge Speedway : 13
Snow, tunes & plonkers : 26
Cabin fever improv : 27

March 2007

Three Dimensions of Snow : 04
Dropping European Chains : 13

September 2007

Where have I been? : 02

October 2007

Metamorphs : 11
Calls in the Night : 12
Frost : 13
Serendipity : 14
Evening in Pasadena : 15
Animals and melodies : 17
Alex and Noah : 18
Portugal photo gallery : 20
How Summer Warmed : 21
Sparse Composing : 22
Capitaliban Rising : 25
Knickers in a Twist : 26
Delayed Mortality : 31

November 2007

Straining : 04

January 2008

Not Exactly Exhausted : 21
In Search of Something : 22
Cleanup : 23
Hold 'Em, Mock 'Em : 24
Motivation, memory, money and magic : 25
Final hours : 26
Duck and cover : 28
Wood and sweat : 31

February 2008

Cabinet Redux, and Snow : 10

May 2008

Answer My Mail, Please: 13
Writing a Book I: 14
Writing a Book II: 15
Writing a Book III: 16
Falling to the Southeast: 17
A Nowhere Composer, Geography I: 18
The Geographical Cure, Geography II: 19
Images from K&D I: 20
Images from K&D II: 21
Images from K&D III: 22
Tripped Up By Reason: 24
Make Me a Better Sandwich: 25
The Small Form: 26
Pass the Gumdrops: 29
When the Walls Fell: 30
Between Two Worlds: 31

June 2008

The Dominance of Artifice (A Fragment): 01
My Glorious FedEx Adventure: 02
A Little Help from the Wings: 08
Always Almost Ready: 09

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