Hello from Brooklyn
Alarm Will Sound just won a Grammy!
Our recording of Donnacha Dennehey’s incredible Land of Winter (which I made a visualization of here, and which you should definitely pour a cup of coffee and listen to in full here) won Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance. More here on Alarm Will Sound’s website.
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Now working close to home in Dumbo (that’s Brooklyn). With the Manhattan Bridge footpath right outside the window (👋).
You might still catch me lurking at the library from time to time as well.
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Alarm Will Sound’s long-awaited Acoustica follow-up is coming out this year. This is now well over a decade in the making and it is finally done and heading to mastering. I contributed in several ways: a co-arrangement of my track Hanabi with our bassist Miles Brown, full arrangements of Aphex Twin’s minipops and Gameshow Outpatient’s Vole Sweeps Up!, percussion arrangement for Jlin’s Black Origami, and I also played percussion on the whole record.
I wrote a very intense blog, called Music and Math and Feelings weekly for a year. It was a good experience and I got a lot of stuff off my chest, which will continue to live there indefinitely for your perusal. Like, for example:
one very phyllotaxonomic interpretation of the gravitational pull toward scales with five, seven, or twelve notes.
a guided video tour of making lissajous curves and an oscilloscope cover of Avril 14th by Aphex Twin.
an overshare-y homage to The Just Intonation Primer and a very very special interview with Just Intonation themself.
an anniversary megapost with fifty-two interesting music recommendations
premiere of Symmetric Palaces, my new work for justly tuned piano
an exploration of Henry Cowell’s “rhythmicon,” and whimsical (yet thorough!) animated analysis of Nancarrow’s Study #6 for player piano.
a five-part epic on organizing music with lattices.
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Gigs:
March 13, 2026: American Stories - Annenberg Center, Philadelphia
Featuring my Hanabi for chamber orchestra - Info - Tickets
March 17, 2026: Princeton Sound Kitchen - Richardson Auditorium, Princeton NY
Nine world premieres - Info
May 5th and 7th, 2026: Alarm Will Sound 25th Anniversary Show
The Grandel, St. Louis MO - Info
Roulette, Brooklyn NY - Info
Heading to San Francisco to teach at the inaugural San Francisco Percussion Academy in June. This is a program of the San Francisco Conservatory for promising young percussion students.
Broadway: I’ve been playing Wicked on Broadway as a guest percussionist off and on for sixteen years now and my honest assessment of the movie is that I loved it and was so glad it was extremely faithful to the show except they made the flying monkeys all evil at the end which is just wrong. The monkeys are kind, gentle creatures who are misunderstood because of their appearance and thus metaphorical mirror-images of Elphaba herself. Obviously. Also way too much CGI.
This is where the social media links used to be. If you would like to get friendly updates on interesting gigs and official music releases via email a few times a year, you can just email me and I’ll add you to that list.