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New Year’s Resolution

Keith Kothman — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:12:07 +0000

If there is anyone still out there reading this, I’m making another run at restarting my blog. In fact, I’m making it my New Year’s Resolution, which almost insures its future failure. Right now I’m starting up a new semester of teaching (2 sections of music theory-20th century, one section of computer music-max/msp, and some composition students). I’m reading The Rest if Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. It’s wonderful so far. I’ll post something more resembling a real review once I’m done.

Along the way I’m trying to attend to my lagging compositional output.

Happy New Year!

Back from an extended vacation (ha!)…

Keith Kothman — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:11:23 +0000

processed_sound took a vacation this summer. Unfortunately, I didn’t take much of one.

I did manage to finish a piece (Dynamic Couplings, written for my colleague Keith Sweger) and get it performed at IDRS 2007 at Ithaca College.

I also ran across a few interesting topics during some rare reading times. Kyle Gann writes that no one has written a good narrative account of contemporary music recently. And having lived in Sweden for a year, I’m fascinated whenever anything comes up about the Eurovision Song Contest, which brought the world ABBA. Now sociologist Duncan J. Watts has investigated the role that “bloc voting” plays. While those of us in the U.S. can worry about what other countries think of us, he can prove that everyone in Europe hates Great Britain.

I’m also working on some new projects. More on that, and the above fun stuff, later.

Welcome

Keith Kothman — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:09:09 +0000

processedSound is the personal blog of Keith Kothman. It’s in a minimally functioning state right now. Look for the sidebars to get organized/personalized, and the posts to start within the next few days.

In the mean time, you can check out my teaching blog, teachingmusic.wordpress.com. You can even check out some of the links to find out more about me.

cheers!