Mixed Meters

Just like in the movies before the main feature starts, here's a Mixed Meters Trailer, teasing you with one minute of advertising for my...

This is a follow up to the Mixed Meters post Reach For The Sky where I documented a magnificent local steeple - or is it a spire . Either...

(Hey, later in this post you'll find a new 30 Second Spot to play. And it ends with a little story about Frank Zappa's music. Othe...

A Doodle by David Ocker Large Flightless Bird Reaches For Low Hanging Fruit March 16, 2008 22 cm. x 16.5 cm. Media: black ball point pen on ...

Today it was a positive shock to read the Los Angeles Times obituary of flutist Dorothy Stone , one of the pillars of the California EAR Uni...

I started working as a music copyist for composer John Adams about 1985 on a little piece he called Hamonielehre . I've worked on a lot...

Via the blogosphere ( here and then here ) I've just learned of the death of Leonard Rosenman . His well known career as a film compos...

Here's a before-I-started-reading-it black light picture of "The Rest Is Noise", Alex Ross' excellent history of 20th Cent...