11.20.12: Imagination and Innovation

I've just recently broadcast a wonderful program on the incredible career of composer, bandleader, inventor, and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott. I had some fascinating conversations on music and technology with Jeff Winner and Irwin Chusid of the Raymond Scott Archives, composer/author Tom Rhea, composer DJ Spooky, violinist David Harrington of Kronos, composer J.G. Thirlwell, composer/artist Brian Dewan, and writers Will Friedwald and Daniel Goldmark. You can listen to all six episodes of the program here....

10.23.12: Ghost Train Orchestra - Book of Rhapsodies

I've just launched a Kickstarter campaign for a very exciting new project called "Book of Rhapsodies". Get in on some of the incredible limited rewards HERE On the surface, this project is about rescuing some long forgotten compositions from the late 1930s on 78s and rearranging them for performance and recording in the present. But it goes beyond that into interpretation and improvisation and in some cases, radical re-imagining. The whole project started when I came across the surreal and...