Dan is the General Manager of District Social, a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. https://districtsocialnyc.com

We talk wine, the restaurant business, we curse a little, and drink a bottle of really nice chardonnay and sip some fine whiskey. Dan has a fun job. He'll be starting a podcast soon called Fancy Drunks.

sit down with 3/4 of Overground Percussion, aka TIGUE. They are charting a course no one else quite charted and they're killing it. So proud and pumped to hear them get comfy in their own skin.

part two!

I sat down with Adam Tendler and we chatted politics, religion, music, what being 'safe' means, among many other things, all over 4 lovely Vermont Beers.

Now that I've found the missing file/avoided sabotage, you can now hear the whole picture and decide for yourself about Todd Meehan--Mixed Martial Artist from Yale, Father, Husband, Husbandrist, Author of 4 E-Books on "husbandry as a hobby" and 6 more on "method booking for dummies" and a novella titled "A man dreams of triangles--A Story of lost love and misguided youth."

I sit down in the early morn at #SoSI2010 in a dorm room to talk it out. I made as much lemonade as I could out of this one folks

I sit down with Paul and Hannah at the their home in Princeton, NJ to talk about the beginning of computer music, their work together, and how they met over Mozart, as well as his work with So Percussion (and of course, Radiohead, too)

I take a tour of Garry’s studio up at the Woodstock Chimes headquarters in upstate NY. He’s a national treasure. Congressional Record by Dean Drummond, played by Newband https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-G2qdodBM

Caroline and I talk grad school insecurities, politics, Kanye, and the ethical implications of your notational style as a composer

Garry and I sit and talk about the history/origins of the percussion ensemble as well as take a tour of his amazing instrument collection in the second episode

We talk conducting, percussion studies, learning about his weaknesses in the darkness of Sweden, overcoming performance anxiety, and the history of the “Grandma” slice of pizza in Long Island.  

Ain Gordon

Doug and I catch up in his hotel room in NYC before a big conducting gig. Doug is a GREAT drummer. And a good friend. We go deep and we troll @liquidrum, as you do.

We talk soca, panorama, and Rice and Peas and getting along.

I sit down with Adam Groh, prof of percussion at Western Carolina University in North Carolina. We talk about commissioning music, teaching, learning music, guns and singing your kids to sleep.

I sit down and chat with Adam Sliwinski of So Percussion about Venice, Roman naval battles and orchestra auditions

It's about anxiety

advice on careers and such, no matter your career.