Bozza Aria on a Plane

I just heard the unedited, unmastered recording of Greg Banaszak playing my Bozza Aria arrangement with the Beethoven Academy Orchestra in Krakow, Poland. It sounds fantastic! I can't wait to get a copy of the CD when it comes out. I also heard that Banaszak and Centaur records signed a deal with LOT Polish Airlines to use the Aria as part of their in-flight music presentation. I suppose stranger things have happened, but this is certainly up there.

MEA KKMB HKXQZ Update

Thank you to everyone who participated in my most recent experiment. The music is completed, but I am still selling letters for the title. The shopping cart has been disabled, so please contact me with how many letters you would like. Keep the following possibilities in mind: an "R" yields "embark" or "hammer", a "Y" yields "mayhem", two "I"s yield "maximize", "NCR" yields "benchmark", and "YTR" yields "myth-maker".

New Homepage

So after being home all summer, I learned that maintaining my home-page was too much of a pain. I have therefore decided to switch to a popular blogging interface, rather than my own. What does this mean? I will be able to update this page from any computer with an internet connection, even my PDA! Previous articles are all reposted and can be found in the September 2006 archives. With almost 13,000 hits since January, it seems a little wrong to go 3 months without updating anything. I also have a nifty little RSS feed, you can find the subscription link at the bottom of this page. Hope you enjoy!

Back to School

For the last few months I was at home--and unable to update this website. Now that I'm back at school, be on the lookout for more updates.

A.W. Smith Award

After opening my bill for this semeter's tuition, I was surprised to learn that I had received the A.W. Smith award, which pays full tuition for my last year at Case! Many thanks to anyone involved. I'm not sure who was responsible, so if you were, please let me know.

Purchase a Note in my Next Piece

I am starting a new series of pieces that explore connections between music and the global communications network. The resulting piece will be made entirely from the notes purchased by members of the community, and if you buy a note, you will be listed as a "co-composer" for the project (note that no musical skills are necessary to be involved).

Hamelin Poster Competition

With special thanks to Dr. Gary Ciepluch, my faculty sponsor for the Intersections SOURCE Poster Symposium, we would like to announce that the "Hamelin, After the Rats" poster won 1st place in the "Arts" category of the competition.

Micro Air Vehicles

I know this isn't strictly related to music, but sometimes my science page can go unnoticed. Please enjoy this cool new video compilation of a series of Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) test flights that were made over the course of this semester. Enjoy!

Hamelin Poster

Look for me at the "Intersections SOURCE Poster Symposium". I will have a booth with a poster for the Hamelin piece. The Alizarin video game is also being presented there, so look out for that too!

01001101

There is now a brief clip from the first movement of my new multimedia composition "01001101". Feel free to download or browse other clips. The recording was made on April 4th, 2006, by the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra.