Wow! It has been a while. This semester has been a whirlwind. Finishing my dissertation, carrying 17 credit hours in a concurrent masters program, teaching at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and doing enough contract composition work to pay my bills was so overwhelming that I just had to put my head down and keep working.

An overview of the last few months:

1. Finished and defended my dissertation for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition. I will walk for the degree next week.

2. Completed 17 hours towards my second masters degree, a Master of Science in Recording Arts, at the University of Colorado, Denver

• This included a project in Audio for Post Production – a complete soundtrack for a three minute segment of film including all dialog and effects (backgrounds, foley, and cut FX).
• Recorded Sins of Babylon, a local metal band
• Recorded Nataniel Rateliff and the Wheel as part of their pre-production work for their upcoming Rounder release.
• Recorded New Ancient Astronauts
• Recorded the Metro State Orchestra  on several occasions and did a project comparing stereo microphone techniques for large ensemble
• Did my first remix project using Logic
• Master class on studio design with John Storyk
• Master class on virtual production with Sandy Hoover
• Master class on acoustics and concert hall design with Robert Mahoney

3. Continued contract composition work for Mentormeter Media, LLC.

• Boca-Motion for Alto Saxophone Wind Ensemble with J.S. Abramowitz
• WIP wind ensemble piece
• Arrangements of several tunes for a synagogue

4. Taught several composition majors at CU-Boulder

5. I will likely be working on an audio post project for UCD next semester as part of a scholarship opportunity.

6. Started the academic job search process again

7. Re-arranged the home studio. Since I am really only editing and mixing at home, I moved my control room back in the larger room. It is more comfortable and makes more sense for me now. I also bought a new Mac and upgraded to Pro Tool 8.

Gotta run. To be continued…

I never got around to posting this:

The new Control room floor is nice. I moved the desk back in, but I still have to retreat the room in the new orientation.

New Floor!