Nocturnal Emission

w/ resident DJs Zebo, Hess, and Chump — More of a head-noddin’ than a hip-shakin’ night, so I’ll be pursuing slow end of the low end theory. @ D’Vine 1950 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60601 10pm – 2am. No cover.

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SEM in Honolulu

Alongside fellow Riddim Methodist, Larisa Mann (a/k/a, DJ Ripley), I’ll be “giving” a paper called “What Is Stolen? What Is Lost? Sharing Information in an Age of Litigation” at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, which is happening in Honolulu from Nov 15-19. See the program for full details on the conference, […]

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Beat Research, CyberOne

I’ll be presenting my recent findings alongside resident technicians DJ C and DJ Flack and their distinguished guest, DJ Rugged One. Enormous Room 567 Mass Ave, Cambridge 10-1, No cover Earlier in the day, I’ll be talking about (digital) music and the internet to the CyberOne class. Harvard Law School Pound Hall 100

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AMS/SMT in LA

I’ll be discussing and demonstrating “Mashup Poetics and Pedagogical Practice” as part of the SMT Committee on Diversity Special Session at this year’s joint annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, which is happening in Los Angeles from Nov 2-5. See the program for full details on the conference, […]

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UW’s SoM SEM-Preview Colloquium

On Friday, October 27 at 4pm, I’ll be giving a run-through of my paper for SEM in Honolulu as part of the UW-Madison School of Music’s pre-SEM colloquium. The talk is called “What Is Stolen? What Is Lost? Sharing Information in an Age of Litigation,” and discusses the constraints and possibilities swirling around digital media […]

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Million Poems Show

Poetry reading with Jordan Davis, Gabriel Gudding, and Jim Behrle. I’ll be “reading” over beats, knomesayin? Waxing poetic and whatnot. @ The Bookslut Series, Chicago, IL Mercury Cafe 1505 W Chicago Avenue 7:30pm — Free and open to the public.

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Seven Steps to Human Nature

Tomorrow — that’s Thursday — I’m gonna be giving my second area performance as a recently transplanted Chicagoan. While the last one might have been described as lappy, this one’ll be more rappy. Jordan Davis’s Million Poems Show is coming to town, y’see, and I’ll be joining the fray by “reading” some “poems” (over beats […]

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