http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/
http://digimorph.org/listbygroup.phtml?grp=Dinosaurs,&sort=SpeciesName
http://www.rom.on.ca/collections/curators/evans.php
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/doi/10.1002/ar.20984/abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.1401680303/abstract
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
long time no see
Ok, I'm switching the focus of this to being more a research log for current work and thoughts, mostly for my compositions and doctoral work. Probably will occasionally post deadlines, etc. but as I am in grad school, there are in-built structures that I can organize around. Ergo, I don't need to keep track of applications and booking things in quite the same way as I did as an independent composer/artist.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
exitrip, music + architecture, etc.
I'm working on recording the music + architecture piece. Decided to just use samplers for the brass, and record only accordion for clarinet and me for the soprano. It's taking much longer than I would like. Gah.
Spanish tomorrow. That's gonna kill me. Early in the morning.
So, all the damn batteries in my ExiTrip died.... since somehow turning off the ExiTrip didn't actually stop it from draining the batteries. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I had to order express delivery from digikey. PLUS, my damn charger that I bought turned out to be an IC which requires a breakout board... a TINY IC that I could not actually use with a breadboard. Worried about this piece... hopefully I get batteries by Tuesday and I can test-run the tech before rehearsal.
Moving soon. Not really thinking about it.
If someone tells me again about all the music schools in NYC and why did I decide to leave I will scream. I didn't even apply to any around here... I guess I did want to get out.
Ugh, I feel stressed. I totally didn't do enough work yesterday even if I did a decent amount today. BLAH.
OK. Things to do:
1. Finish recording before Fred comes over to work on the proposal with me.
2. Edit together a few 20 minute tracks for the rehearsal Tues. (start this)
3. Print out ExiTrip score.
4. Write a beginning maybe for the proposal before the evening
5. Language Lab
6. Send out email blast about show (ok, Tues, okay to do this... I smell infinite procrastination....
7. Call park people again!! (Tues ok)
Okay, that's it. Gah!!!
ETA: Okay, yes I did robot piece. Everything worked despite my laptop crashing 2 days before. OMFG. Oh god I should do a backup RIGHT NOW. Backupz -- important!
ETA2: Also, still working on getting 'in which' performed... either late July or maybe fall. It's all happening, baby.
ETA3: Too many things at once.
ETA4: Oh, yah, I did get the KHNC artist residency fellowship thingy but I don't know if I can GO! GAH! Professor still hasn't replied.
Spanish tomorrow. That's gonna kill me. Early in the morning.
So, all the damn batteries in my ExiTrip died.... since somehow turning off the ExiTrip didn't actually stop it from draining the batteries. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I had to order express delivery from digikey. PLUS, my damn charger that I bought turned out to be an IC which requires a breakout board... a TINY IC that I could not actually use with a breadboard. Worried about this piece... hopefully I get batteries by Tuesday and I can test-run the tech before rehearsal.
Moving soon. Not really thinking about it.
If someone tells me again about all the music schools in NYC and why did I decide to leave I will scream. I didn't even apply to any around here... I guess I did want to get out.
Ugh, I feel stressed. I totally didn't do enough work yesterday even if I did a decent amount today. BLAH.
OK. Things to do:
1. Finish recording before Fred comes over to work on the proposal with me.
2. Edit together a few 20 minute tracks for the rehearsal Tues. (start this)
3. Print out ExiTrip score.
4. Write a beginning maybe for the proposal before the evening
5. Language Lab
6. Send out email blast about show (ok, Tues, okay to do this... I smell infinite procrastination....
7. Call park people again!! (Tues ok)
Okay, that's it. Gah!!!
ETA: Okay, yes I did robot piece. Everything worked despite my laptop crashing 2 days before. OMFG. Oh god I should do a backup RIGHT NOW. Backupz -- important!
ETA2: Also, still working on getting 'in which' performed... either late July or maybe fall. It's all happening, baby.
ETA3: Too many things at once.
ETA4: Oh, yah, I did get the KHNC artist residency fellowship thingy but I don't know if I can GO! GAH! Professor still hasn't replied.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
some stuff I am doing now. update. robot II. etc.
The Art in Motion show went off as planned. What a wonderful experience.
http://insurgostageproject.wordpress.com/category/art-in-motion/
I have about a week before I'm performing my robot work in front of people @ Spoke the Hub. Luckily, my robot works and stuffz. I am getting wheels to build another one tomorrow... THEN... I think I will do the 'final' soldering... can't perform with a breadboard... can you?
http://www.vimeo.com/22759159
I think I might implement some membrane drum models or something... but maybe later.
I am going to ASU officially and it is mostly funded, so that is good.
I have park permits for the ExiTrip performance... and performers lined up...
A tap dancer might perform 'in which...' which(!) would complete one of my goals for the beginning of this blog... (ha). If that comes to pass, I'll prob. also try to get the origami piece played, maybe by the same ensemble... (including me)
Started working on a music + architecture proposal with an architect whom I met during tango...
I don't have a huge to-do list besides the obv. for my performance in a week. I have to do some work on the proposal for next week... Then, the to-do for ExiTrip... (prob. need to come up with an actual name for the piece)..
Just kind of working steadily...
http://insurgostageproject.wordpress.com/category/art-in-motion/
I have about a week before I'm performing my robot work in front of people @ Spoke the Hub. Luckily, my robot works and stuffz. I am getting wheels to build another one tomorrow... THEN... I think I will do the 'final' soldering... can't perform with a breadboard... can you?
http://www.vimeo.com/22759159
I think I might implement some membrane drum models or something... but maybe later.
I am going to ASU officially and it is mostly funded, so that is good.
I have park permits for the ExiTrip performance... and performers lined up...
A tap dancer might perform 'in which...' which(!) would complete one of my goals for the beginning of this blog... (ha). If that comes to pass, I'll prob. also try to get the origami piece played, maybe by the same ensemble... (including me)
Started working on a music + architecture proposal with an architect whom I met during tango...
I don't have a huge to-do list besides the obv. for my performance in a week. I have to do some work on the proposal for next week... Then, the to-do for ExiTrip... (prob. need to come up with an actual name for the piece)..
Just kind of working steadily...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
catch up
So it is looking very likely that I am going to ASU, for the Music Composition DMA with a specialization in Digital Media and Performance...
It also looks likely that I've got a residency in Nebraska this December: Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts. Yay, maybe! I got an email asking me if I could switch dates. The dates are during finals (for ASU) in December, but I said yes: hoping that I can finish things early, etc.
I have the dance performance in two weeks-ish so rehearsals are eating up more time... Art in Motion..
I have an performance for my new robot at the end of the month, so I really need to get cracking on it. I am meeting with 3 people this week to see the bicycles/bicycle wheels. Once I get those, I can really start working. I need to hurry up on it.
I still need to book the ExiTrip project... emailed The Tank but have not heard back. (GAH). Thinking about having the performance in a public park...(need to apply ASAP) may send CV/portfolio to Issue Project Room just in case its not too late (have nothing to lose, right?). Need to get on THAT soon, as well.
So:
1. Art in Motion
2. ROBOT!
3. ExiTrip!!
It looks like my subway project is prob. caput.. Maybe I will just start recording my actual travels instead. Hmm... could be a good idea.
It also looks likely that I've got a residency in Nebraska this December: Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts. Yay, maybe! I got an email asking me if I could switch dates. The dates are during finals (for ASU) in December, but I said yes: hoping that I can finish things early, etc.
I have the dance performance in two weeks-ish so rehearsals are eating up more time... Art in Motion..
I have an performance for my new robot at the end of the month, so I really need to get cracking on it. I am meeting with 3 people this week to see the bicycles/bicycle wheels. Once I get those, I can really start working. I need to hurry up on it.
I still need to book the ExiTrip project... emailed The Tank but have not heard back. (GAH). Thinking about having the performance in a public park...(need to apply ASAP) may send CV/portfolio to Issue Project Room just in case its not too late (have nothing to lose, right?). Need to get on THAT soon, as well.
So:
1. Art in Motion
2. ROBOT!
3. ExiTrip!!
It looks like my subway project is prob. caput.. Maybe I will just start recording my actual travels instead. Hmm... could be a good idea.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
if you practice, you will get better.
So, somehow I came across, again more and more responses to Amy Chua's article. I don't actually want to address her article but some of the rebuttals. One them was that, "some children are just naturally gifted at music", and pushing others that weren't would just be useless. Apart from people that actually have some form of amusia (which is, by reports, actually very rare), I'm pretty sure that most people have the capacity to be decent, if not insanely wonderful musicians. You (or, I do!) hear a lot of people talk about music as if it is this crazy inborn talent people have that was given to them by magical fairies.
No, it is not.
You see, the people who are wonderful musicians do this thing: practice. And they have done it a LOT. And they practice the right way, which is, often, working on things that they failed at before and can't do now. It isn't playing the easy stuff over and over. Well, there are entire books and schools of thought on how to practice the right way, but let me suffice to say: practice, it makes the difference. (AND it makes a different HOW you practice)
Now, I'm not saying there isn't natural talent and so forth. But even people with natural talent need to practice, especially to attain a high level of musicianship. That goes for composers and songwriters, too. They practice; they (we) do it a lot.
So, yes, I believe that 100% of developmentally normal kids would be awesome pianists (or whatever) if they practiced three or more hours a day since the time they were five. (and if you want to be a professional, you'd better double those hours when you get older) Of course, among those kids, some will be better than others, and even then it'd be hard to say whether its nature or nurture... Usually, it requires self-motivation and intense love of music/playing and probably ambition, not a parent looking over your shoulder, but it is practice practice practice that makes the difference.
Crossposted on facebook. Yes, facebook.
No, it is not.
You see, the people who are wonderful musicians do this thing: practice. And they have done it a LOT. And they practice the right way, which is, often, working on things that they failed at before and can't do now. It isn't playing the easy stuff over and over. Well, there are entire books and schools of thought on how to practice the right way, but let me suffice to say: practice, it makes the difference. (AND it makes a different HOW you practice)
Now, I'm not saying there isn't natural talent and so forth. But even people with natural talent need to practice, especially to attain a high level of musicianship. That goes for composers and songwriters, too. They practice; they (we) do it a lot.
So, yes, I believe that 100% of developmentally normal kids would be awesome pianists (or whatever) if they practiced three or more hours a day since the time they were five. (and if you want to be a professional, you'd better double those hours when you get older) Of course, among those kids, some will be better than others, and even then it'd be hard to say whether its nature or nurture... Usually, it requires self-motivation and intense love of music/playing and probably ambition, not a parent looking over your shoulder, but it is practice practice practice that makes the difference.
Crossposted on facebook. Yes, facebook.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
grad school trauma and more more more
So, I am on the waiting list for Florida University and I'm on the waiting list for a Teaching Assistantship at ASU. Blah. I mean, I think that means I'm probably an admit for ASU, but my funding is the thing up in the air. But I don't know since I haven't gotten notice of an acceptance... I'm waiting list girl. Still, this is better than how I was doing at this point last year, but I still feel pretty depressed about everything. Still waiting for my dream school, I guess... which I think I have a chance at since I was waiting list there last year, but I still have a pretty good change of NOT getting in. BLAH. Think I'm getting a reject from Brown sometime this week (yuck) and frankly... I'm wondering if I actually have a chance at UCSD. That would be weird.
I want UVA though. SO bad. FLA would not be bad either -- Paul Koonce is there, plus in the South. I hear Gainsville is funky/cool. So, those are my first choices (UVA is by far where I want to go...)...but ASU might be fun... even if Arizona seems like a totally bizarre place for me to live. On the up side, I checked and there's a contact improvisation jam there. I still need to check for the tango scene. (Charlottesville has a tango society and it is close enough to DC... but no local contact improv, but could go to either DC or Richmond one...(in theory) or maybe UVA has one that's not on the list). It is depressing how little dance places other than NYC have. Like, people! Go out dancing guys!
In other news, Justin & I got into the ExiTrip thing and I went and got the ExiTrips. Now I'm gonna start booking things bc I have to. Argh. Hate hate hate booking. Got a dancer from another project I'm working on interested in it... The couple doing the ExiTrip thingy were very nice, and after I left I wondered if I came off as either crazy and/or completely pretentious / contentious. For some reason I went off against multiple speakers and etc. Which, while yes, I'm totally skeptical about, why was I ranting about this and being negative etc. to nice people I had just met. I need like, a wristband that shocks me when I start to get inappropriate.
In other news, I finally am starting to feel like I am actually getting better at accordion due to the insane amount of practicing I've been doing. Still... I always feel like maybe I'm not practicing enough. I'm going to practice post-rehearsal tonight since today was a wash -- have done nothing. Will probably study Spanish on the way there.
My robot has stalled, though I have the solenoids, I just need to experiment. I needz to book something, I think. Gah. Maybe tomorrow I will take a few hours and send emails out, finally.
Btw, my roommate & I's I-Park project proposal was kickass. The most kickass proposal evah. So, there.
I want UVA though. SO bad. FLA would not be bad either -- Paul Koonce is there, plus in the South. I hear Gainsville is funky/cool. So, those are my first choices (UVA is by far where I want to go...)...but ASU might be fun... even if Arizona seems like a totally bizarre place for me to live. On the up side, I checked and there's a contact improvisation jam there. I still need to check for the tango scene. (Charlottesville has a tango society and it is close enough to DC... but no local contact improv, but could go to either DC or Richmond one...(in theory) or maybe UVA has one that's not on the list). It is depressing how little dance places other than NYC have. Like, people! Go out dancing guys!
In other news, Justin & I got into the ExiTrip thing and I went and got the ExiTrips. Now I'm gonna start booking things bc I have to. Argh. Hate hate hate booking. Got a dancer from another project I'm working on interested in it... The couple doing the ExiTrip thingy were very nice, and after I left I wondered if I came off as either crazy and/or completely pretentious / contentious. For some reason I went off against multiple speakers and etc. Which, while yes, I'm totally skeptical about, why was I ranting about this and being negative etc. to nice people I had just met. I need like, a wristband that shocks me when I start to get inappropriate.
In other news, I finally am starting to feel like I am actually getting better at accordion due to the insane amount of practicing I've been doing. Still... I always feel like maybe I'm not practicing enough. I'm going to practice post-rehearsal tonight since today was a wash -- have done nothing. Will probably study Spanish on the way there.
My robot has stalled, though I have the solenoids, I just need to experiment. I needz to book something, I think. Gah. Maybe tomorrow I will take a few hours and send emails out, finally.
Btw, my roommate & I's I-Park project proposal was kickass. The most kickass proposal evah. So, there.
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