Since the inauguration I've just been in music mode (big surprise) and it's awesome (another shocker). I've been composing, working on my music theory for class, and seeing tons of concerts. It's beautiful.
First off, there was the obligatory superbowl party. Here's my dip!
Mmm, so good. We had so much food that I still had about a third left over, but I was afraid the guac would go bad so I ate it for breakfast the next morning. And then lunch. That was crazy. Once again, thank you Benjamin for the original recipe. Oh yeah, and during a recent composers salon at my place I once again changed people's lives with the broccoli casserole. It's such a crowd-pleaser.So we had an Elektronik Musik concert Sunday which went really well. Me, Zane, and Professor Felice created an electric guitar trio that performed a couple pieces utilizing this cool gadget called an EBow. It's basically a little gadget with a 9-volt battery inside that you hold in your right hand. When you touch one of your guitar strings to it, it magnetically vibrates the string and causes it to sound, so basically it makes a steady noise without using a guitar pick, similar to a violinist drawing a bow across their strings. Felice wrote a piece for us, and I wrote a piece called "Contracurrency" that I composed in about 5 minutes that created these crazy sounds bending up and down and going crazy. It was awesome.
Then Thursday night was another Composers Orchestra concert. Ensemble 48 performed a piece written by our friend and fellow composer Dace, which involved Josh as Terence McKenna reading off a bunch of his writings, and the rest of us grooving along, speaking in tongues, dancing, doing tai chi, it was glorious.
So yea, that's a good summary. Ben and Jamie have been helping me with my resume and a little Chicago hunting, which is amazing considering how little sleep they're getting these days. Even so, I'm planting the seeds of my thesis, and already getting excited for my recital in April. Can't wait to see everybody!
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I didn't know you were keeping up your blog. Nor did I know that you brewed beer. Nor did I know that you can cook broccoli casserole AND crazy mexican dip. When did you become so domestic? Clearly this means it's been too long since we have had any communication other than via facebook scrabble!
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