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It is sort of unfortunate that the first release on my list is by an artist I am less familiar with than the others. Aki Takase is a jazz musician who has been around, making albums since the late 70s, with some traditional influence and some improvisation. She’s usually a pianist (and is one here). That’s about all I know about her, because I haven’t heard much else of her work (a few other records, all of which were good) because I listen to the first track on this album too much. More… »

It’s the summer and my academic life has calmed down a little—I finished my B.S. in Mathematical Sciences (Discrete Mathematics and Logic), and am starting my M.S. in Logic, Computation, and Methodology (in the fantastic Department of Philosophy). I’ve basically done the program already (since I double majored in Logic and Computation as an undergrad), so this year I will be extending my thesis (currently titled “Postulates for Safe Contraction”) and gaining some more philosophical background in preparation for (hopefully) a Ph.D. program next year.

My point is: I have some more time to think about music again over summer, and so I’ve decided to make a list some fantastic albums which I really enjoy and feel others should know about, then write short entries for each of them. These aren’t my fifty favorite albums, or the fifty most essential albums that I have, or fifty perfect albums, but they’re all quite good. Here’s the list at the moment… More… »

So there’s this website which is apparently trying to be the web 2.0 (or are we on 3.0 now?) version of the venerable mixtape. The whole deal is that you can upload up to twelve ten-minute or less songs to it and arrange them, and that’s all. I was a little skeptical at first, but it turns out to be pretty fun. I made one, of course. Hopefully I’ll keep having good ideas for it and change it a bunch of times. More… »

It’s probably not surprising that I’m a big fan of Autechre, given that the title of this blog is lifted from their album LP5. Quaristice, their newest release, is probably the most enigmatic for me, since it departs from a lot of the traditions I’ve come to expect from an Ae release. More… »

acroyear2.org will look somewhat strange over the next little bit because I’m writing a new WordPress theme for it, based visually off Minn 0.1, but with a totally different codebase (starting fresh, but taking cues from the default theme).

I do have a couple of draft posts, on Go and things to do with my thesis, and I’ll get those up eventually.

Edit: As you can see, things are starting to settle down a little. Should be all done by sometime tomorrow evening!

Edit 2: This took a little longer than I thought, but is done now! See here for more information on the theme.