Archive for July, 2011

Collections of Colonies of Bees
Giving
CD
U.S. and Canada
$15.00

International
$17.00

GIVING is the highly-anticipated new album from the Milwaukee six-piece Collections of Colonies of Bees. The first music we’ve heard from the Bees since their joint project Volcano Choir with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the 2009 release of Unmap, GIVING continues the intricate, virtuosic, and emotional dialogue begun [...]

A curious idea.
Earlier this year Rutger Zuydervelt wrote asking if I’d consider being involved in a project he was putting together, where pairings of musicians would improvise with recordings of various Dutch bridges. Conceptually, there was a lot to this; bridging sound, working from different locations yet connected to a specific place via sound, [...]

Here is a talk I gave in April 2011 at the Loyola Music Industry Forum in New Orleans. The focus of the talk was on creativity, and how the process can be approached in different ways based on changes in business, technology, and the increasing saturation of communication. The video is about an [...]

What’s The Shelf?

At home, I have shelves that display things that I think are interesting. I put them there so that people that visit can see them and a conversation starts.
That’s what I’m doing here. Every so often, a new thing will be placed on The Shelf; a thing that has had an effect [...]