philosophy

Paper Published in Technoetic Arts 20.3!

Paper Published in Technoetic Arts 20.3!

My paper entitled “Towards a new aesthetic: Noumenism and Noumenist poetics” has recently been published in issue 20.3 of Intellect’s well-established, peer-reviewed academic journal Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research

CMS-Southern Chapter Conference Held Jointly with SCSMT

CMS-Southern Chapter Conference Held Jointly with SCSMT

This year's Southern Chapter Conference of The College Music Society (CMS) was held jointly with the annual conference of The South Central Society for Music Theory (SCSMT)…

Paper Published by Cybernetics & Human Knowing!

Paper Published by Cybernetics & Human Knowing!

Another paper of mine entitled “The Destabilizing Cybernetics of Implausibility: The Anti-Anthropocentric Crisis” was published this month in Cybernetics & Human Knowing 26, nos. 2-3: 169-190. In it, I use an analysis of my own creative process to formulate the hypothesis that a feedback loop connects the music composer, the composition, and its percipients, moving them gradually away from humanocentricism.

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! 

Taking a Look at Edgar Allan Poe

Taking a Look at Edgar Allan Poe

I want to inform everyone about my involvement with The Poe Studies Association's Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference. I served as Chair for a session entitled "Aesthetics and Philosophy" which took place in the East End room of The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, NY on Saturday, February 28, 2015.