Apologies for the unannounced (and nearly month-long, yeesh) hiatus. Finding housing and moving across the country is time-consuming!

Back soon, with more goodies.

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Under Construction

In the interest of making my blog look a little more pro, I’ve been messing around with themes. Of course, you know the end of this story already: I broke some stuff, fixed some stuff, and now the website is in a sort of halfway-fixed state. Apologies for those of you who come via the URL (you intelligent RSSers will have to take my word for it). I appear to currently have issues with the display of audio posts (see John Cage’s shrunken Bieber head) and comments (see their, um, absence). I’m on it!

Real, substantive blogging to resume shortly. (Oh god, I just invoked the moribund blog curse, didn’t I?)

RSS People, Dear Readers

Okay, I’m cutting myself off from metablogging posts for at least a month after this one, but I have a quick favor to ask of my RSS-based readers: I’d appreciate it if you could switch your feed address from the one that gave you this post to this one.

I’m running things through Feedburner now, which will give me a little more control over stuff than Tumblr does, with the added benefit of some stats.

So yeah, new RSS link here.

Thanks, and no more blogging about blogging for a long while.

Things I Wrote or Made

I’ve added a new tag to some old posts on this blog, so people looking for content made by me (as opposed to the scads of youtube vids and links) can find it.

You can now filter posts by tag to see only things I wrote or made.

The categorization is pretty subjective, since both the things I make and the things I write are tied up to various degrees in things I did not make or write. For example, my post about frequency sweep videos on YouTube is in there, but my post comparing Chief Justice Roberts to Karlheinz Stockhausen isn’t. (Although now that I think of it, these things may change.)

I tried to just sort out the longer, more theoretically inclined writing, and the posts about media I actually produced (even when that media is based almost entirely on work by others). You can get there by clicking the new link in the sidebar, the link above, or by navigating to http://noiseforairports.com/tagged/me.

And this post is not included. Because I said so.

Me

School starts up for me in a few days.

I’ve been trying to avoid too much metablogging on here, because I have found it to be a black hole that sucks up all my posting energy into posts about posting. But, since I’m about to get a whole lot busier, I wanted to make an effort to connect my coursework to the content on this blog.

That way, work on my thesis might count as work on the blog and (hopefully) vice versa. In the spirit of connecting things together, here is my recently freshened up bio from my program’s web site.

Nick Seaver graduated with a BA in interdisciplinary literature from Yale (2007). As an undergraduate, his interest in sonic media led him to research the relationship between the technology of sound reproduction and social conceptions of “noise.” At CMS, he is studying indeterminacy and control in sound transmission, the role of “skill” in aesthetic judgments, and the history of automatic musical instruments.

His academic work is supplemented by experiments in computer-aided composition that combine experimental music processes with pop music materials. In addition to his work in sonic media, Nick has a longstanding interest in the history of the book, which led him to spend a year training full-time as a hand bookbinder at Boston’s North Bennet Street School.

If any of that sounds interesting to you, I hope you’ll keep checking up on the blog for more updates from my academic work, as the posts here will probably take a little shift from “nifty youtubes” to “thoughts about the piano as an interface.” And, if it sounds really interesting to you, I hope you’ll drop me a line in the comments or through email.

It’s going to be a good year, I hope.