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eighth blackbird: A Year In Texts

I have an iPhone, which I love. Among the many cool features, it has a pretty much unlimited capacity to store text conversations. Being bored one day, I was flipping through the text exchanges I had had with members of the group since I bought the iPhone last October. What follows are highlights and some [...]

Posted 30 August 2008 § Inside our heads § On tour § Things we find funny § Travel hijinks § eighth blackbird ‡ Comments (2) °

Reich play-through

Today, towards the end of rehearsal, we had the first playthrough of Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, performing against the pre-recorded “second sextet” part for the very first time. While it was a little hard to hear each other and even ourselves a fair amount of the time, it was incredibly and deeply satisfying. Tim probably [...]

Posted 20 February 2008 § eighth blackbird ‡ Comments (0) °

I’ll have #5

Besides Japan, my wife and I went to Thailand this past December, and found this on the menu at a small family-run restaurant

Posted 10 February 2008 § Things we find funny § Travel hijinks § eighth blackbird ‡ Comments (1) °