About performance royalties (ASCAP & BMI)

I posted my entry about publishing on Facebook, and a friend asked a very important question: if you give your scores away for free, should…
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What my side jobs taught me about music

I’ve worked a number of odd jobs in my life. There are loads of stories I could tell people about, but in this post, I’m…
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The winding road of writing a book

I’m working on a book which I hope to self-publish by the end of the year. It’s a collection of short essays about musical instruments…
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Yogis on Fire revisited

One of my “quarantine projects” was remixing my first yoga album, Yogis on Fire. I’ll back up to the beginning and then talk about what…
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Publishing advice for composers

Don’t wait to “get discovered” One of my biggest pet peeves are artists talking about “getting discovered.” Obviously it’s naïve, but it’s also a passive…
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Motivation & productivity in quarantine

I wrote this post about a month ago, and while some of these thoughts hold true, the whole situation gets more maddening by the day.…
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The hardest thing I ever wrote: reflections on academic writing

I’m pleased to announce that I have a book chapter published! It’s part of Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice, edited by Daniel Walzer and…
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Life in higher ed as an “alt-ac”: a profile of two jobs

The term “alt-ac” was widely discussed in the mid 20-teens, and it’s problematic and misleading but I haven’t seen a better term. Essentially, “alternative academics”…
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The Composer’s CV

I’ve been obsessing over my own CV for about 15 years, and I’ve read many other people’s CVs during that time. Either I read the…
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