Google alerts rock, for a huge variety of reasons. I only have a couple of them set up, and naturally “eighth blackbird” is one of them. And so what do I find in my email inbox just now? A google alert for a torrent link to download our Strange Imaginary Animals CD. Should I be [...]
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eighth blackbird: A Year In Texts
I have an iPhone, which I love. Among the many cool features, it has a pretty much unlimited capacity to store text conversations. Being bored one day, I was flipping through the text exchanges I had had with members of the group since I bought the iPhone last October. What follows are highlights and some [...]
Reich play-through
Today, towards the end of rehearsal, we had the first playthrough of Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, performing against the pre-recorded “second sextet” part for the very first time. While it was a little hard to hear each other and even ourselves a fair amount of the time, it was incredibly and deeply satisfying. Tim probably [...]
