12.15.08- semester over...new studio construction in the works...

 

12.12.08- Our Man in Chocolate will be performed at the Frederick Lowe Room on Broadway (1501). I arranged all of my compositions for this musical music for a solo pianist to be performed on Richard Rogers' piano...tré cool. :)

 

11.13.08- Holodomor has been asked to be performed on Saturday, November 22, 2008, in Washington, D.C. by the Ukrainian Embassy.

 

11.07.08- me and kel as Simpsons characters

 

10.20.08- after 6 months of sequentially watching seasons 1-7, Raquel and I finally finished watching every episode of Just Shoot Me.

 

10.09.08- come see a play about the Ukrainian Holocaust this Friday. I wrote the music.

 

10.01.08- I'll be speaking about EAMIR at TMEA, Day 1, 5pm

 

09.24.08- saw Weezer at MSG!!!

 

09.06.08- back teaching at MSU and Kean

 

09.04.08- started the PhD program at Temple

 

09.01.08- Finally, Douglas gets his own page!!

 

08.24.08- VJ's new skunk/Rogue look

 

08.17.08- Clear Blue: new paths (version 2) CD released today

 

08.11.08- I'm going down the shore for a few days!!

 

08.10.08- clear blue plays at COHIC, debuted a new tune

 

08.07.08- clear blue plays at the afterglow as well as my cover band

 

08.04.08- guest lectured at ASTA/CMI again

 

07.29.08- guest lectured at ASTA/CMI last night--video to come soon. Pics Here

 

07.23.08- read an article I wrote for Soundtree/Korg published in their July 2008 SoundWAVES newsletter about my EAMIR project.

 

07.18.08- kicked off the AfterGlow '08 last nite

 

07.13.08- saw Rush again last nite at PNC--awesome.

 

07.11.08- I don't care what you say: Cold Play is all of the lamest parts of U2 without any of the cool stuff.

 

07.10.08- Korg has officially partnered with me and my EAMIR project. Their educational division, Soundtree will be distributing my software and hardware exclusively. Jim Frankel, the managing director of Soundtree, will be presenting some of my interactive music systems in his keynote speech at PMEA 2008 (held at Penn State)

 

06.21.08- leaving for the University of California Santa Cruz

 

06.07.08- met and posed with Bob McGrath at a concert

 

06.05.08- going for the PhD at Temple University this fall; Interactive Music Systems for Music Education

 

06.04.08- EAMIR database is now up. Visit www.eamir.org

 

05.07.08- saw Allen Holdsworth last nite. Way slow!! :)

 

05.03.08- I'm performing some Schickele tonite.

 

04.19.08- visit www.eamir.org

 

04.07.08- come to Ars Vitalis: NJ's New Music Forum on Wednesday, April 16th at 8pm.

 

03.31.08- "Only By Grace" appears in compilation CD of 2007 IMA winners.

 

03.21.08- read the scene I wrote for my role as John the Baptist in our modern Easter Cantata. Come see our production, "J" 3/21 & 3/22.

 

03.05.08- I became an executive board member of the Arco String Ensemble

 

03.02.08- I was accepted to the Algorithmic Composition seminar at the University of Santa Cruz where I will be studying with David Cope

 

02.05.08- recorded the Kean Percussion Ensemble for an upcoming CD

 

02.05.08- recording engineer work for the upcoming interactive-monologue by Susanna Rich "Television Daddy"

 

01.20.08- wow--the Grammy's--woohoo

 

01.09.08- I will be a guest lecturer at ASTA/CMI 2008 where I will be presenting several of my interactive music systems and algorithmic compositions.

 

01.02.08- uh oh--Israel on YouTube

 

01.01.08- Happy New Year