Started new blog on the on-going dance/collaboration/multi-media piece (I'm not sure if we have a title anymore). That project is moving, complete with rehearsal schedule. Dennis Somera is on board (yeah), along with some very talented dancers and a video artist. It's very cool to approach a large project where I don't have to conceptualize all of it- very different from doing my thesis last year (which, as I recall, started to hit panic mode about now: much sypathy going out to Laurel and Jenn).

Other than that, still struggling to get regular practice time on instruments, though I did buy a new drumset (did I mention that already? I'm so fucking stoked about it). Did sit down at the piano for one minute the other day to arrange a piece for the Gomorrans and it felt really good. Intending to get that thing tuned and start practicing the very elementary stuff I was doing many months ago.

And school started- jesus christ does that take a lot of energy. I'm moving the class towards something very much like a creative writing or creative mixed-media course, because I can and because these students have already had one quarter of this course in a more traditional vein. I'm going to try to do every assignment I give them, which all relate to an ongoing project, myself. The notion I'm starting with is that all art in this ear begins at a problem (I'm borrowing this from my piano teacher, Matthew Goodheart, he may have borrowed from somewhere too), and the working out of that problem determines both the process and the piece. Every week, they get a new assignment related to the problem, probably problematizing the problem and the process prodigiously, but the problem is of their choosing. My problem will be the one this collaboration is centered around- the end of the world.