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Got to have variety

This month started with Napalm Death, follow by a festival filled with percussion quartets, next another metal show, then a jazz festival, then psycho-billy, and finally some experimental punk. If I don't find something for the last week of June.

Producing again

Going to up those high ends a bit next, little more rides and percussion to fill the gaps.

Achilles' grief

[Act I – The Offering] (a hushed, intimate tone, almost whispered, as if confiding to Patroclus) Figs represent my love for you— I will give you fruits, I will scatter them at your feet, jumble them into chaos, if only you would give me truth. [Act II – The Glance] (voice rising, eyes cast to the... read more

Christopher Cerrone

Nominated for the Grammys 2026 Award for 'Best Contemporary Classical Composition', Christopher Cerrone's 'Don’t Look Down' is the highlight. An 18-minute concerto for prepared piano and percussion quartet. Conor Hanick and Sandbox Percussion.

Something different but yet still playful

The wind had been yowling against the siding all night, as if the whole house had offended it. Somewhere out there, a branch played percussion against the windowpane—tap, scrape, screech, tap. I’d decided to let it be the soundtrack to my evening and put Madness on in the background. “Night Boat to... (edited) read more

Road

The road goes on ahead of me and then—without ceremony—withdraws. It does not end; it simply dissolves into a pale conspiracy of fog and grey sky, as though the world were shy of its own continuance. I walk toward that vanishing point with the quiet obedience of a man who has accepted that... read more