I’ve been meaning to post this photo since I mentioned attending the excellent recent Andrew Pekler and Jan Jelinek (and Chris Otchy) concert ...

Tired: Getting reminders on social media to say happy birthday to (or otherwise reconnect with) deceased friends. Wired: Stumbling on newly ...

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public ...

The word “livestream” is for events that are streamed live. During the early pandemic, that was in lieu of an in-person audience, and these days ...

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to ...

Yes, I’m enjoying Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s 2015 book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, which I’ve owned for almost as long and started ...

Pandemic-era lockdown is, for most people, a somewhat distant memory, but the normalization of livestream concerts, which rose to prominence when most ...

I asked Google the following, which is to say I put the question into the search box: What is stigmatic ambient music? Google’s “AI overview” ...

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written ...

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my ...