So much of this mirrors my life: choose your own adventure, tape backups on giant UNIX systems in high school, playing bass. It’s nostalgic even though I didn’t live it. Can’t wait to listen to the record. Brilliant!
Calls to mind Don Cherry borrowing from the Dartmouth anthropology museum african xylophones and Taos wood flutes and meeting on consecutive frozen mornings up in the woods (!) of New Hampshire with Jon Appleton and 1970 computer blips and blonks published first on Flying Dutchman and reissued in 2005 as “Human Music”
Really enjoying the record, and it’s so good to get a sense of TM’s approach here. There’s a real earthiness to the way the WOODS parts flow across the duets, and learning about TM’s roots in both programming and jazz really brings the music to life 🌳🎵
Thomas Morgan has that rare ability to engage readers so thoroughly that they do not lapse into skimming or (in the case of substack) clicking away to something else. Ethan, first, thank you so much for your generosity in offering Thomas a guest post. I do not know how to offer a next actionable step appropriately. Might you ask him if he might be willing to have an exploratory conversation with about adaptive reuse (under his complete creative control) of "A UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITIES WITHIN THEIR RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS" as a beautiful book?
love reading about the process and history, revealing as it has been
Incredible essay! as a longtime hacker myself who's done some work with Overtone via Clojure, this is just so incredibly cool to read!!!
Incredible depth - I appreciate all the background that Thomas went into to contextualize his music and programming journey! Congrats !!
So much of this mirrors my life: choose your own adventure, tape backups on giant UNIX systems in high school, playing bass. It’s nostalgic even though I didn’t live it. Can’t wait to listen to the record. Brilliant!
Can’t say I comprehend this whole text, but I definitely look forward to hearing this music
Calls to mind Don Cherry borrowing from the Dartmouth anthropology museum african xylophones and Taos wood flutes and meeting on consecutive frozen mornings up in the woods (!) of New Hampshire with Jon Appleton and 1970 computer blips and blonks published first on Flying Dutchman and reissued in 2005 as “Human Music”
Really enjoying the record, and it’s so good to get a sense of TM’s approach here. There’s a real earthiness to the way the WOODS parts flow across the duets, and learning about TM’s roots in both programming and jazz really brings the music to life 🌳🎵
Thomas Morgan has that rare ability to engage readers so thoroughly that they do not lapse into skimming or (in the case of substack) clicking away to something else. Ethan, first, thank you so much for your generosity in offering Thomas a guest post. I do not know how to offer a next actionable step appropriately. Might you ask him if he might be willing to have an exploratory conversation with about adaptive reuse (under his complete creative control) of "A UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITIES WITHIN THEIR RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS" as a beautiful book?
Thomas Morgan and Dan Tepfer should meet, if they haven’t already.