I have been a less-than-active blogger lately. But, I wrote a short piece on the music of Iannis Xenakis for the International Contemporary Ensemble’s blog spreading the word on on their upcoming all-Xenakis concerts in Boston and Chicago. I’ll re-post it here once it is over there. That post will mark the first time I have shared a webpage with DJ Spooky, or anyone else with “DJ” in their name.
I’m participating in a group book blog titled “Shelf Empowerment” hosted by Molly Sheridan dedicated to discussing Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig’s new book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Several music bloggers (including Sheridan, Time Out New York/the New York Times‘ Steve Smith, composer/singer Corey Dargel, jazz composer Darcy James Argue, composer/polymath Matthew Guerrieri, and many more) will take several looks at this Rewrite Copyright Law Now! manifesto. Look for each of us to re-post our writings on our own sites, and watch Molly’s space for a unique discussion on the future of our industry. No one has all the answers, but if we work together, we might come up with some ideas on how to survive, and maybe even thrive. And then we will each be paid $1,000,000.
Also, I started writing program notes for Carnegie Hall, and the first one came out last month for violinist Veronika Eberle’s debut recital. They’re here, and Steve Smith’s NYT review, which an artistic bureaucrat like myself would call “glowing,” is here. (I wrote “they’re here,” because program notes are plural, right? “The program notes were packed with insight, I thought,” is correct, while “The program notes was packed with hilariously inexact metaphors,” is incorrect. Right?)