Art

Can Music, as a Discipline, Contribute to a Conversation about Resilience?

Can Music, as a Discipline, Contribute to a Conversation about Resilience?

The distinguished attendees of the American Society for Cybernetics 2017 Conference (where I gave a lecture/recital featuring my own works) define resilience as the ability to respond to change. Scott M. Harris, founder of Recursionist Publishing, is one of these people. “Beneath this is a form of reason based not only on logic but also on...beauty,” he says.

The College Music Society's Rocky Mountain Chapter 32nd Regional Conference

The College Music Society's Rocky Mountain Chapter 32nd Regional Conference

I presented my music theoretical research and chaired Session IX: "The Language of Art" at the The College Music Society's Rocky Mountain Chapter 32nd Regional Conference, held March 24-25 at Eastern New Mexico University - ENMU in Portales, New Mexico.

EAPR Publishes Extensive Revision of ""Mesmeric Revelation"..."

EAPR Publishes Extensive Revision of ""Mesmeric Revelation"..."

I want to inform everyone about the publication of the revised/expanded version of my paper ""Mesmeric Revelation": Art as Hypnosis." The triple-blind review process was rather labor-intensive. But that is the very first item of the general submission criteria for authors of the EAPR (The Edgar Allan Poe Review). 

South-Central Regional Conference of The College Music Society 2016

South-Central Regional Conference of The College Music Society 2016

What a conference! Applying the Existential Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to Performance and Stage Fright! Cellular Pivots as a New Means of Progression in Post-Tonal Music! Audience, Performance, and Compositional Considerations in Electroacoustic Composition! Art Song Settings of Poetry of William Butler Yeats!