I’m honored to be starting a music commission from artist Michelle A M Miller, for her book installation, “Convergence”. We got to know each other’s work last year at the Atlantic Center residency, and she is a treat to work with. Her project centers her Nicaraguan Miskito mother’s voice, memories and cosmology, interwoven with bio […]
Compositions
“I am, therefore I think”
Returning from my recent concert tour in Oregon I was able to – finally – take this picture from I-5. This tag has puzzled me over the past decade. Who wrote this and why? The interwebs offer no enlightenment. Is it a sulky threat of karma? Some local feud? Whatever, it mirrors my current fascination, […]
Colonies! (the good ones)
To the casual observer artist residencies or colonies can sound a bit pretentious (and in the old days they could sometimes be just that), where artists get to be Artists, or badly behaved solipsists. But the reality is nowadays that these places diverge enormously in terms of their demands, intentions, and environments they operate in. […]