unmasking tig 29 Dec 2012 | 05:11 am

Although the most recent post is dated October 2012, improvising guitar hasn’t been active in any meaningful sense since January 2008. I started this blog in order to explore ideas of improvisation an...

practice based research: policing the borders of knowledge 24 Oct 2012 | 10:07 am

Practice based research is not only a methodology, but is also tied to a metric, and, for you to be successful according to a metric, you need to play the game. When I first encountered the term ‘prac...

seven things about TIG 30 Jan 2009 | 06:19 am

Another meme (this time lobbed from Mixed Meters). Rules: Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird. Tag 7 people at...

Methinied Morricone 21 Oct 2008 | 10:23 am

I’m not averse to Morricone here at IG (I do, after all, suggest Cinema Paradiso as a melodic atom for practicing guitar…), but here’s something out of my normal orbit: I would, however, never recomm...

an sms conversation between two teachers of improvised music 2 Oct 2008 | 04:14 am

classical dynamics 8 May 2008 | 05:45 am

Okay, Devin Hurd manages to lob me a meme. I’ll bite—anything to inject a little actitity into this (temporarily) neglected blog. 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 123. 3. Find the fifth se...

the grant application algorithm rev. 1.0.0 9 Apr 2008 | 10:17 am

For FS. A very simple algorithm: 1. Choose ‘edgy,’ trendy words and phrases that the arts organizations currently love (e.g. ‘collaborative’, ‘sustainability’, ‘interdisciplinary’, ‘defamiliarize’, ...

opportunities 6 Apr 2008 | 05:56 am

There’s no such thing as a wrong note, just (missed) opportunities.

well, this is depressing (addendum) 11 Feb 2008 | 04:04 am

Dan asked for some background on the London Musicians’ Collective vs. Arts Council of England dispute. Most of what I know, I’d heard on the grapevine. While others have also blogged about it, possibl...

well, this is depressing 9 Feb 2008 | 08:08 am

From l-m-c.org.uk: We [the London Musicians’ Collective] sense that no one in the ACE [Arts Council of England] Music Department actually supports the kind of work the LMC does, and that this, rather ...