Alison Wilder
Joined the Arts Alive! Board!
I’m thrilled to have been asked to join the board of the formidable, cool, and formidably cool local arts service organization, Arts Alive!! (This sentence has two exclamation points because one belongs to the organization’s name, and one belongs to my enthusiasm for the organization.) I’ll be serving at least through 2022. Arts Alive! is … Read more
Some recent favorite photos…
It’s been quite a year, quite a fall. Here are some of my favorite live screen captures of the last few months.
The word today is “cachinnate.”
cach·in·nate | \ ˈka-kə-ˌnāt \ cachinnated; cachinnating intransitive verb : to laugh loudly or immoderately
The piano in its natural environment
New-to-me Yamaha U3 is in FULL EFFECT! Funny, it looks like it’s been there all its life. I’m absolutely thrilled with it so far. My main complaint: it sounds like it should play like a grand, and of course, it doesn’t. That said, I’m SO enjoying the feel of it, esp. for songwriting and classical … Read more
Love o’ jesus
When you spend all day learning and perfecting a JavaScript charts library, only to realize at 3:00pm that a table is actually the best solution.
Quote from “Double Birthday” by Willa Cather
Even in American cities, which seem so much alike, where people seem all to be living the same lives, striving for the same things, thinking the same thoughts, there are still individuals a little out of tune with the times — there are still survivals of a past more loosely woven, there are disconcerting beginnings … Read more
Quote from “The Man Who Shouted Teresa” by Italo Calvino
My shadow took fright at the moon and huddled between my feet.
First Nine is One Demo
Just a quick teaser demo of a new song that’s coming from Greg’s and my new collaboration, Nine is One. Much more work to do here, but we’re really psyched about the sound that’s growing!