Category Archives: music

MajorMiner good news and bad news

The bad news is that I’m having some DNS issues with majorminer.com. The good news, is that you can now access the same great MajorMiner game and search at majorminer.org. The other good news is that there’s a new and … Continue reading

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What is this I’m listening to?

I’ve been listening to last.fm a lot recently, especially while I’m working. My goal has been mostly to listen to music, but also to be exposed to new music. The problem is that if I hear something new that I … Continue reading

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Recent music making

Recently I’ve had a couple of opportunities to play some music, both of them thanks to my friend Matt. This past Wednesday and the Wednesday before I sat in on the rehearsals of a big band at the musician’s union, … Continue reading

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Opera for less

While in Vienna, I went to the opera with some other folks from ISMIR, led by Elias and his girlfriend. The Vienna Staatsopernhaus appeared to have performances just about every night, and each night was completely different. Some people in … Continue reading

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New Pictures

After figuring out how to connect my ubuntu feisty laptop (thinkpad) to my phone (samsung), mostly from the thinkwiki howto, I managed to get all of my pictures off of it. I uploaded them to my photo gallery, separating them … Continue reading

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Buffalo Collision

Another show I saw recently was “Buffalo Collision” at Tonic. The band was made up of two thirds of The Bad Plus plus a viola and alto sax and there are some nice pictures of the show at the Downtown … Continue reading

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Vijay Iyer and Steve Coleman

I saw Vijay Iyer and Steve Coleman play a duet at the Stone recently with Graham. They appeared to have some sort of sheet music, although it must have been more abstract than actual notes because it seemed like all … Continue reading

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Secret Society

photo by Dani Gurgel Last weekend I heard Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society again. This time they were playing the Bowery Poetry club, so it was a bit easier to get to then the Flux Factory. Because of the IAJE … Continue reading

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Lots of music recently

It seems like January is full of concerts I want to hear. I don’t know if it’s because there are more cool-sounding shows around or because I know about more shows, but it’s not stopping for a few weeks. I’ll … Continue reading

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meap

For the past few semesters I’ve been participating in this “class” which is more like an experiment in collaboration between the Electrical Engineers from LabROSA and some folks in the music department. After much (much) discussion, we decided that it … Continue reading

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