Friday Misc.
Around the web: Are you a music snob? And the Yankees v. Red Sox rivalry plays out in the blogosphere.
Sounds Like Now
A blog by saxophonist Brian SacawaArchive for Miscellany
What’s going on?
Actually, not much. Yelling, “On your left!” to pedestrians taking up too much of the bike path. Learning lots of new music for concerts. Waiting for Paris-Roubaix. Enjoying NPR uninterrupted now that the pledge drive is over (finally . . . ). Listening to Decasia and Drumming. Conspiring with Helen. Reminder: visit the Japan Society’s Little Boy exhibit when in NYC in a week and a half. Read: The Bay Buzz by Ching Chang, ACD’s sounds & fury, and uTopianTurtleTop.
And Frank Oteri is wondering if he’s the only one obsessing about this year’s Pulitzer Prize for music as he tries to launch a discussion. Any takers?
Saturday misc.
Non-Zero plays Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA tonight. Works by Hillary Zipper, Lou Bunk, Alvin Lucier, and a Cage-inspired improvised time bracket piece for alto sax, percussion, and laptop that Tim put together. (He put the piece together, not the laptop.)
Other miscellany: Pretty good article in USA Today, of all places, about new directions in programming and marketing by some classical musicians, including the cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Matt Haimovitz. Combing the blogosphere, I stumbled upon a blog with a title resembling mine–only one letter different. Composer Marcus Maroney’s Sounds Like New. Give a look to Jason Hibbard’s blog with the Lucier-inspired title–I Am Sitting In A Room. And thanks to Matt Burtner for taking note.
