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I had a great experience on Thursday night. As many of you know, I have for the last four years been involved in hosting music sessions – jams, improvisations, compositional collaborations, whatever we call them – on most Thursday nights. I’ve been slacking off a bit lately, as I have a lot on my plate and just needed to back off a bit. » Read the rest of this entry «

Remember those robotic dragonflies? Check out the Big Dog.

This stuff gives me the willies.

Extrapolating, if the engineers have developed the technology to build these robots, then, given what we know about our current government and the human race in general, what are they likely to have built that they aren’t showing us?

A little bit scary, yes?

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Even paranoids sometimes really do have robotic dragonflies spying on them.

Last Thursday was Song Night at Oz’s.

When words are not expected to play a role in a given improvisation, I often just cast about until some musical motif begins to attract good energy. With words, I find it harder to just cast about. As a consequence, I’ve been thinking a bit about how best to kick start improvised Words with Music. » Read the rest of this entry «