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After a hiatus of two years due to COVID, the Northeast Electro-music Festival (NEEMFest) returns to the Center for the Arts in Homer, NY on Sept 9-11, 2022. Part music festival, conference, and social gathering, the event has been going in some form for over 10 years. Highlights include opportunities ...

This page gives the viewer an idea of my broad listening tastes. This page is approaching a chronicle of 10 years of listening! It clearly demonstrates the diverse musical landscape available to us today. Much of what you see below is *not* on the radio. No longer are we ...

During a recent podcast interview, the topic turned to listening habits and I realized it had been a while since I put together a “recommended listening” list. The groups, artists and albums below are a good sampling of what I enjoy listening to these days. I’ll confess that most of ...

Over 10 years ago when I first started listening to what would eventually become “world music” it was difficult to find many recordings. If you heard something on a late-night radio program (like Echoes), and missed the artist or album name… well, you were pretty much stuck. Of course today, ...

Technology is great, when it works. When you use technology as much as I do, you start to notice things. You have high expectations, and not unreasonably so. The promise of technology is that it should enhance our lives, save time, or money. Yet, having had so many bad experiences ...

Some productions on which I have done sound, music or tech. Murdered to Death(Sound Design Summer 2012) The Butler Did It(Sound Design Summer 2011) Out of Sight, Out of Murder(Sound Design 2010) Laffing Room Only(Sound Design Summer 2009) A Fine Monster You Are(Sound Design/The Guardian 2008) The Musical Comedy Murders ...

Enter the world of SCI-FI-LOPHONE, where music, noise and science come together to produce fun and unusual sound textures for all ages. A: SCI-FI-LOPHONE is a unique MIDI-controlled percussion instrument consisting of solenoids combined with traditional and non-traditional sound making objects. It’s part art installation, interactive science project, and part ...

It started with three Jethro Tull LPs… Aqualung, Thick As A Brick and Warchild. Those LPs were part of my father’s record collection. Around the time I was in high school (late 80s, early 90s), I began to be heavily influenced by those albums and wore them out. I recall ...

Between 2013 and 2019, I ran a modest project studio in Central, PA. It was eventually dubbed “Pepperhead Studios” after my love of hot peppers and the expanding garden I eventually built outside. The studio space itself was 1200 square feet, in the basement of a church that had previously ...

On 2/6/22, I performed for about two hours on Bandcamp via their new live stream offering (not to be confused with music streaming like Spotify, etc). This was a low-key experiment intended to put this new Bandcamp tool through the paces and compare with previous experiences streaming on Twitch, YouTube ...

I’m offering another virtual Touchdesigner workshop for The Fuse Factory – an art and technology initiative focused on cultivating artistic production, research, and experimentation with digital media and electronic tools. Visual artists as well as musicians and writers can all create compelling things with Touchdesigner, so creatives of all types ...

Laura Chenault and Valerie Chikwendu turn the tables on fellow co-host Jeremy dePrisco for this episode of the Philly Maker Faire Podcast. ...