To say orc is a bit dramatic but technology is moving so fast. I thought things were challenging when analog went digital. Or when Pro Tools went HD. USB would like a word with Firewire and ethernet is still in the cord/dongle/adaptor pile. My basement is an audio gear graveyard. I almost started a nonprofit […]
I don’t get to update this site often. I work different projects every week, make music, work on AES Columbus’ site and newsletters, teach, write, practice, and attend a lot of workshops and panels. I usually take a screenshot though and will have to make a collage one rainy day soon. This whole site needs […]
Opera Project Columbus wins Columbus’ biggest arts awards for organizations with budgets under $1 million dollars. Congratulations! It took me a while to post this–I am a one-person boutique with a lot happening. We’re all navigating this overwhelming pandemic. But I want to note this project as I look back over 2021. The content Opera Project […]
After-Death Plan…Literature …opening track “The Master & Margarita,” for example, a brooding slice of ‘50s-ish, Nick Cave-styled pop noir, which is quickly followed by the considerably strummier, yet no less dark, Americana that is “Devil Takes A Hand.” Two songs in, and we’re already thinking murder ballad territory. Ah, but we’d be thinking wrong. Soon enough there’s the luminous “Raygun,” with its gorgeous strings and neo-gospel choir of harmony vox; a thrumming post-punk-meets-power-pop rocker called “Memory Remains” that cements the aforementioned Harvey comparison
