Mixed Meters

Click here to listen Tuesday's More Modern Than Monday © April 24, 2011 David Ocker - 45 Seconds Modern Tuesday Tags: 30+Second+Sp...

Here is a short video with my music featuring my friend Tom Brodhead. © 2011 David Ocker - 141 seconds Last month Leslie and I had a c...

Some of the video shots which I make with the "point-n-shoot in my pocket" just demand to have music added to them.  This is one o...

Here's a quote I read a long time ago in a musician's union newspaper.  To me it seemed obviously true. Play for the masses, eat wi...

I was in my early thirties when I first encountered anything served in aspic . I had gotten a job doing revisions to a large symphonic pie...

House is a soap opera .  Of course it's not really an "opera" in the musical sense nor is it sponsored by a soap company.  It...

Last fall I attended an LA Philharmonic performance of a large work for chorus and orchestra - Graffiti by composer Magnus Lindberg .  The...

Certain instruments, a violin, say, or a guitar, have specialized varieties which become associated with particular people, usually a perfor...

Mixed Meters has had several on-going photo series. For example, there was Fallen Avocados ,  Blank Wall and Bunnies and Balloons .  No, t...

On the corner of Hill Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena there used to be a Ford dealership.  It was called Pasadena Ford.  When it ...

Last night I came across the nine-minute 1956 movie Design for Dreaming .  This particular bit of Fifties Futurism is a big-budget General M...