Archive
May 2013
- 22: Looks like at least one orchestra is doing something right.
- 20: The whole system is screwed.
- 17: It’s a slow news day at the New York Times
- 15: How Are We To Listen To Contemporary Classical Music?
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
- 29: Dangerous Music
- 25: Times a million
- 21: How to fix American Orchestras
- 11: Mongoloids on the loose…
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
- 26: Changing the Concert Ritual
- 13: The SoundNotion Interview
- 08: Ten Ways to Fall in Love with John Cage
June 2012
- 25: Whatever Happens, Happens
- 23: We all Hit ‘play’
- 16: We are all animals, after all.
- 09: Ithaca’s Orchestras clean up in ASCAP Awards
- 06: Elliott Carter on harps
May 2012
- 31: Misérables
- 19: eClassical
- 18: DFD
- 05: New Logo for the Pulitzer Prize
April 2012
- 30: X, Y, and Z
- 30: Virtuosic Listening
- 17: Photographs of Music
- 05: In the world’s quietest place, ‘you become the sound’
- 02: Why I Do These Things
March 2012
- 30: Americana
- 25: New Music Box covers the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference
- 19: Why I Hate The ‘Goldberg Variations’
- 04: Wait… STREAM All the music!
February 2012
- 23: Search All The Music
- 14: The World’s Most Addictive Substance
- 13: GRAMMY Redux
- 11: President Santorum Bans Heavy Metal
- 04: Fixing “Previous Track”
January 2012
- 30: Listen to this: El Bozo
- 28: Everything in its Right Place
- 27: Ice Cube’s ‘Good Day’ pinpointed
- 25: 2005 Tim’s Dream Job
- 25: Duff McKagan: Quit Whining About SOPA and PIPA. Where’s the Public Outrage Over Internet Piracy?
- 25: What are people buying instead of music?
- 25: Eliane Radigue: Surround Sound
- 21: Giraffes Drawn By People Who Should Not Be Drawing Graffes
- 21: The Next SOPA
- 03: Free Download from Bang on a Can All-Stars
December 2011
- 22: Forty-Two Versions of Harlem Nocturne
- 21: Science is hard; headlines are easy, say experts
- 20: The Best PR Workers That Slavery Could Buy
- 17: Spotify vs. Rdio
- 16: The Trojan Horse
- 12: Words have meaning
- 07: Tallis Scholars’ Sound [OR] Why 176 KHz/192 KHz Sampling for Choral Music is Important
- 07: Free Downloads from Arno Bornkamp
- 07: As You Heard It
- 06: Setting the Record Straight
November 2011
- 30: Low Volume
- 23: Cardiovascular Kinesthetics as Source of Inspiration for Features in Schubert’s Late Piano Music
- 09: Here Ye, Hear Ye
- 03: Isaac Hayes Sampled
- 02: No winners
October 2011
- 31: The Great Clothing Debate
- 31: The Science of Unpleasant Sounds
- 27: Listen to this: The Intervals Song
- 27: Something Good is Free on iTunes
- 26: Quote: Richard Rushfield
- 26: Wikipedia Daily Challenge
- 23: The iPod is Ten Years Old
- 22: Pete Seeger, Arlo Gutherie, David Amram, and other musicians Join the #OccupyWallStreet Movement.
- 20: Free Download: Charles Ives
- 19: Listen to this: Michael Winslow
- 19: Almost Paradise (almost)
- 08: … or you can just listen to it.
- 06: Rdio Free
- 05: Recruiting the next generation of listeners
September 2011
- 29: Zaniness
- 26: Ratios: Comparing the X-Factor with The Sing-Off
- 23: Hilary Hahn Interviews a Fish
- 23: The Infernal Comedy
- 20: Núñez, Prieto, and Weilerstein Awarded MacArthur Grants
- 20: Your Sounds
- 19: The Art of the Rip
- 18: Free Bob Seger EP
- 14: 70 Years of Protection
- 13: Liner notes
- 13: B is for bass player
- 10: Read an Excerpt from ‘Pearl Jam Twenty’
- 09: What did Maurice Sendack listen to while he drew his new book?
- 07: Listen to this: A Five-Octave Array Mbria
- 06: Koyaanisqatsi LIVE
- 04: Gibson Guitar Factory Raided
- 01: Thirty Eight September Songs
August 2011
- 19: Naxos Music Library Adds EMI Classics Catalog
- 12: Good editing
- 12: Better and Better
- 12: That’s not a business model
July 2011
- 28: Intuitive Music
- 24: Scelsi: Eternal
- 14: Awkward Classical Music Photos
- 14: Make it good
- 10: New is not better than good.
- 06: Say what you mean
- 06: A Sapphire Stylus
- 05: Brief and to the Point
- 05: Bespoke Accordians
June 2011
- 29: Out of “print” no more
- 24: As you like it
- 24: Burn the Libraries
- 23: There Really Aren’t Enough HDR Photos of Organs on the Internet
- 23: Going Public for the Public Domain
- 23: How the Tchaikovsky piano competition is being judged
- 23: Ithaca College Orchestra Wins a National Award
- 23: Concerts? I’ll Pass.
- 21: Music in the cloud
- 20: SoundNotion 23: Podcasting is Hard
- 19: Bringing Saxy Back
- 15: NPR Classical’s Best Albums Of The Year (So Far)
- 15: Listen to this: MIX
- 11: Streaming concert for new(ish) music from the Libbey Bowl tonight
- 11: The Chilling Effect
- 10: On public funding for the arts
- 08: Does coffee make you hear things?
- 08: So… I guess we do heckling now?
- 07: On notation
- 06: This is not the iCloud I was looking for
- 04: Quote: Ian Leslie
- 04: Errata
- 04: A Shockingly Poor Defense of Kansas’s Governor’s Cuts to Kansas’s Arts Funding
- 03: The best of Alfred Brendel on YouTube
May 2011
- 31: Something New and Necessary for Orchestras
- 27: Music Tattoo Database
- 27: Clunk, Drag, Release
- 26: Concerto for Saxophones by Roberto Sierra
- 26: How to Organize Your iTunes Library Like a Viking
- 24: Google Instant Mix fixes its WTFs
- 24: Rachel Perry to Perform with the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own”
- 24: Does Playing a Wind Instrument Cause Respiratory Infection?
- 23: SoundNotion 19: Fashion Forward
- 23: How Piano Wires Changed Through Centuries
- 21: Chopin’s Favorite Piano
- 20: Listen to this: Jesus is Waiting
- 20: Why Improvise?
- 20: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
- 19: Applying for faculty positions
- 17: What Classical Music Can Learn From Baseball
- 17: NY Phil performance will be streamed live from Leipzig on May 23
- 17: National Jukebox website logs 1 million page views, 250,000 streams in under 48 hours
- 15: Google’s ‘Instant Mix’ has a WTF factor of +50%
- 11: Download Digital Sheet Music In 25 Easy Steps!
- 04: Listen to this: Goldfischmusik
- 03: Listen to This: Morning Tale
- 02: Arts Patronage 2.0
April 2011
- 27: Listen to this: The Miners’ Hymns
- 27: David MacDonald on Orchestras
- 27: Yet another reason to support the arts
- 25: Teaching Through Transcriptions
- 20: Madame White Snake by Zhou Long wins the Pulitzer Prize for Music
- 12: Fifteen Saxophones
- 06: SoundNotion.TV
March 2011
- 28: Analog EVERYTHING
- 15: An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi On What’s Really “Killing The Music Business”
- 12: Listen to this: Sampolin Jam
- 03: Brad Mehldau Live in Marciac: a six-word review
February 2011
January 2011
November 2010
October 2010
- 21: Listen to this: Water Walk performed by John Cage
- 08: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
- 04: Listen to this: Tristan Perich
September 2010
- 27: What do you get when you play John Cage’s 4’33″ at one-eighth speed?
- 15: Academie d’Overrated
- 09: Up Bright and Early
July 2010
- 27: Court: breaking DRM for a “fair use” is legal
- 10: Classical music younger, hipper than late-night TV
June 2010
- 30: Listen to this: Pro Musicians Struggling with the Vuvuzela
- 24: Jump
- 09: Fingerings
- 08: Alejandro
- 08: Life Expectancy for CD-R/CD-RW
- 08: Tempo Issues
- 08: Omar Hernández-Hidalgo kidnapped and murdered
- 07: Sad Classical Music
- 07: You Say You Want a Revolution
May 2010
- 25: Marie
- 24: Addendum
- 24: The Swinger
- 21: Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas
- 13: 2212 Whalen
- 06: Listen to this: Albéniz vs. The Fly
- 04: Galactic
- 03: Lossless Music Downloads
April 2010
- 30: AUDIO PROBLEMS
- 24: The Q2 Radio Digs DEEP
- 24: In a Treeless Place, Only Snow
- 23: While we’re at it, let’s go ahead and set female conductors back about 50 years or so.
- 20: Bush War Crimes Play Coming to Off Broadway
- 19: HQ Music in iTunes
- 18: YUNDI
- 12: The Pulitzer
- 09: Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2
- 09: Forestone Reeds
- 09: Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
- 08: Mehldau
- 08: Listen to this: Gay Guerrilla
- 08: Awards
- 02: Digital and Direct Sales Now Bring Orchestras to Fans
- 01: Well, lookie here.
March 2010
- 31: Listen to this: Goldberg Variations (Happy Birthday J. S. Bach)
- 30: The Real Story of Lady Gaga
- 11: Songparts 2: Happy Birthday Astor Piazzolla
- 02: NASA: Athens, GA. 2010.
February 2010
- 27: So No Hard Feelings Then?
- 26: Songparts 1: Angel
- 20: An exhilarating day with a dead man’s papers
- 17: This this genius?
January 2010
December 2009
- 31: Listen to this: After All These Years (Still Crazy)
- 16: Sine Waves 2
- 16: Personal Heroes: #1
- 16: George Saunders: Nostalgia
- 11: Sine Waves: Day 1
- 11: Pigeons Can Hear 0.1 Hz [OR] Finding A Better Drone For Fun And Profit
November 2009
October 2009
- 31: Orgelprojekt Halberstadt
- 22: Van Cliburn
- 20: They are There
- 08: Your Tuner is Lying
- 03: Titles and Program Notes: Lies