Mostly Celebrating Sound + Sight

 It amuses me that the computer underscores “catalogue” as if it were a misspelling.

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Chap on Twitter (back when it was still Twitter): It’s Jean-Paul Sartre’s birthday [born 120 years ago today]. Everyone have a meaningless day.

Me: Meaningless, but not nauseated!

Nine years ago today, we presented Sound + Sight at Boston’s historic King’s Chapel. We also gave performances on the Greenway in Boston and at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in Somerville. I composed this post discussing coordination with the artists on the thirteenth, so I should guess that the performance at King’s was indeed the première. I am enormously proud of the artists Irina and Maria, and I remain thoroughly pleased with the piece.

Also, ten years ago: As I write this next passage of The Young Lady Holding a Phone in Her Teeth, some of the pre-compositional work is, considering the fitness of those teeth as a cradle for modern technology. The findings are sonically surprising! 21 June 2015.

Separately, here I am amid those who did the actual beautiful work in Springfield this past Thursday: