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I worked with Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher to transcribe and engrave his new track K7 Museum off his new album Kammerkoncert. The video is now out, and thus my love of stemlets and preference for beaming over rests is made public. Please be kind in the comments.
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Alarm Will Sound just won a Grammy!
Our recording of Donnacha Dennehey’s incredible Land of Winter (which I made a visualization of here, and which you should definitely pour a cup of coffee and listen to in full here) won Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance. More here on Alarm Will Sound’s website.
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Just back from a very intense week at various venues: Bethany Arts Center (upstate), the Annenberg Center (UPenn), and Princeton (Richardson Hall). Great to work with some wonderful artists: serpentwithfeet, Bora Yoon, Shelly Washington, and nine composers in the Princeton doctoral composition program. We also did my own Hanabi, which continues to be an outlet for this former marching tenor player to “get it out of my system.” Here’s a little pre-show selfie from that one:
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Hello from Brooklyn
Now working close to home in Dumbo (that’s Brooklyn). With the Manhattan Bridge footpath right outside the window (👋).
You might still catch me lurking at the library from time to time as well.
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Alarm Will Sound’s long-awaited Acoustica follow-up is coming out this year. This is now well over a decade in the making and it is finally done and heading to mastering. I contributed in several ways: a co-arrangement of my track Hanabi with our bassist Miles Brown, full arrangements of Aphex Twin’s minipops and Gameshow Outpatient’s Vole Sweeps Up!, percussion arrangement for Jlin’s Black Origami, and I also played percussion on the whole record.
We’ll be performing the album in full at Eastman (a homecoming for the band, which was founded there 25 years ago!) on October 2nd.
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I wrote a very intense blog, called Music and Math and Feelings weekly for a year. It was a good experience and I got a lot of stuff off my chest, which will continue to live there indefinitely for your perusal. Like, for example:
one very phyllotaxonomic interpretation of the gravitational pull toward scales with five, seven, or twelve notes.
a guided video tour of making lissajous curves and an oscilloscope cover of Avril 14th by Aphex Twin.
an overshare-y homage to The Just Intonation Primer and a very very special interview with Just Intonation themself.
an anniversary megapost with fifty-two interesting music recommendations
premiere of Symmetric Palaces, my new work for justly tuned piano
an exploration of Henry Cowell’s “rhythmicon,” and whimsical (yet thorough!) animated analysis of Nancarrow’s Study #6 for player piano.
a five-part epic on organizing music with lattices.
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Next up:
May 5th and 7th, 2026: Alarm Will Sound 25th Anniversary Show
The Grandel, St. Louis MO - Info
Roulette, Brooklyn NY - Info
Heading to San Francisco to teach at the inaugural San Francisco Percussion Academy in June. This is a program of the San Francisco Conservatory for promising young percussion students.
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Broadway: I’ve been playing Wicked on Broadway as a guest percussionist off and on for sixteen years now and my honest assessment of the movie is that I loved it and was so glad it was extremely faithful to the show except they made the flying monkeys all evil at the end which is just wrong. The monkeys are kind, gentle creatures who are misunderstood because of their appearance and thus metaphorical mirror-images of Elphaba herself. Obviously. Also way too much CGI.
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Bonus:
I have turned the ubiquitous percussionist “black towel” into a personal exploration of knitting technique. My latest bespoke creation is a two-color brioche: reversible, squishy, luxurious:
This is where the social media links used to be. If you would like to get friendly updates on interesting gigs and official music releases via email a few times a year, you can just email me and I’ll add you to that list.