Links
Friends, Miscellaneous Fun stuff, etc...
Weblogs
Semantic Noise - James "Mac" McMurry. College roommate, creator of fine grooves, and deep fellow
Compose Yourself - Jim Bonney, BCM guitar hero
Newman's Notebook - Jonathan Newman, BCM brainiac
Metafilter (and music.metafilter)
friends
Sergio Valdez - video editor and old chum
Eric Whitacre - fantastic composer, and BCM International founder
Jonathan Newman - brilliant composer, and fellow member of BCM International; he also does top-notch engraving - check out his engraving website
James Bonney - multifarious composer, recording engineer, sound painter, seriously cool guy, and the fourth member of the BCM International collective.
John Mackey - yet another friend and composer; lots of great music for dance (as opposed to dance music)
Mason Bates - fellow composer and Yamaha V50 brother.
Connor Freff Cochran will change you.
Jonathan Hays - a world-class Baritone who eats new music for lunch, and an all-round savvy and suave guy
Simon O'Neill - world famous Tenor and cool fellow I met at Juilliard
Music software I use
Digital Performer - my sequencing software since I had to leave the late, great Studio Vision behind (thanks to those bastards at Gibson)
Finale - music notation
Peak - 2-track audio editing and processing
MetaSynth - fantastic sound design and manipulation software.
Melodyne - more truly amazing software.
Music I like
Aphex Twin - I can't get enough
Mr. Bungle - a delightful blend of everything.
Random stuff
Check out Gorilla Salad / TV Cream - know your Wu-name? (they're no relation to me, just a bizarre coincidence)
The Onion : I can't tell the difference between it and the 'real' news anymore.
Check out the exploding whale
Ok, this was strange to discover - someone at Cornell actually archived my website. If they continue the project, will my linking to it create some sort of post-modern self-referential archival paradox? I hope so.