A handful of selections from my music blog Acousmata recently turned up in a program by the contemporary music radio show "Where's the Beat" in Montreal. Pieces by Boris Blacher, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Clarence Barlow previously featured on Acousmata appeared alongside other music picked by hosts Eliot Handelman and Andie Sigler. 

Check it out: http://wherestheradio.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/138/

Marc Weidenbaum of Disquiet recently wrote a blurb about Acousmata as an example of a "PhD blog." Marc's note was thought-provoking in its examination of the relationship between blogging and academic research. I suppose that, in my case, blogging is actually inversely related to my academic work, providing as it does a forum for public and short-as-I-like musings on whatever I happen to be interested in that day. (Truthfully, the act of getting the music "out there," given the obscurity of much of the stuff I work with, is as important to me as the writing itself.) Then there's the question of what exactly holds a blog together. Marc's comment that Acousmata seems "untethered to anything other than the author's ongoing (self)education and unearthings" is quite true by design, but I do hope the blog has a certain underlying coherence by virtue of my persistent thematic interests.