Category Archives: music & the arts

anatek pocket pedal instructions

I sure could have used this piece of paper about 3 years ago, when I was climbing around under my rig onstage in Ottawa, plugging and unplugging cables and hitting…

Otros Aires

Caught Otros Aires, the modern Argentinian tango ensemble, at Lula Lounge last Sunday night. Took some pictures. Check out the video for “Milonga Sentimental” on YouTube. Click on the photo…

international dance party

If, instead of being cars that turned into robots, the Transformers were Anvil cases that turned into discotheques, they’d be International Dance Party. Via Niklas Roy on Vimeo.

in the radio studios of america

This tune has been kicking around on my hard drive in various forms for a few years now, but I finally have an edit that I’m satisfied with. The majority…

Remixing the F Train

I got a copy of Ableton Live Lite with an audio interface I picked up last year and had been meaning to fire it up and play around with it…

What a difference 20 years makes

My edition of Arnold Schönberg’s Sechs kleine Klavierstücke op. 19 features an odd choice for a cover image – Renoir’s Young Girls at the Piano. And I find it odd…

Well I thought it was interesting

Warning: this post contains some spoilers about the movies Fargo and Raising Arizona. If you haven’t seen these movies yet, go rent them and then come back and continue reading…

It’s never too late for a witty rejoinder

“This is yet another group in what has become a fixed New York pattern. Black leather jackets, a parodistic macho camp swagger, and furious blasting rock and roll. But what…

Piano Recital at The Left Door

Classical music. Live. In a bar.

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