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Peace + Noise
Having recovered from a demanding/rewarding Europe trip that filled all of May and June 2023, I spent July and August recording and learning some new gear, not always in that order. Some of the results can be heard on the … Continue reading
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What comes around
Five years ago saw the Other Minds release of TOM DJLL: SERGE WORKS, (Here on Bandcamp) an overview of improvised and composed electronic music I did in the 1980s, using the Serge Modular Music System. Usually, trumpet was involved. The … Continue reading
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Europe Tour
I didn’t take this to Europe… Didn’t take all this Eurorack or Bugbrand stuff, either: And I left the VCS3 with my friend Clarke for safekeeping. Here’s the rig I toured Europe with. Vienna, Czech Republic (and Slovakia), Germany, Sweden, … Continue reading
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Europe Tour May-June 2023
Greetings from Central Europe! Blogging from Vienna, where I kick off a nine-week tour taking its course from Vienna to Prague, around the Czech Republic, thence to Germany with three weeks in Berlin, up to Scandinavia and the Baltics. Started … Continue reading
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Fall 2022 Highlights
It was a busy and ELEVATED fall season this year. I suspect partly because people were coming out of sequestration eagerly, and joyfully, seeking things to expand their lives. Expansion of minds and lives is, I suppose, the prime hoped-for … Continue reading
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Tagged eletronics, Euphotic, improvisation, music, Rova, travel
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2022 and Beyond the Infinite Pandemic
I have found myself saying, too often in the past three years: “There’s no new normal.” And here we are. My life somehow continues in the wake of many personal losses over the last few years, most significant being my … Continue reading
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Post Pandemic Post
Current state of the studio, below. The big Serge triple-decker XL box in the top photo was finished in the first months of 2020 and I picked it up in June last year. I’ve been working on it intensively since … Continue reading
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2019… and beyond!
Who knew year numbers could get so big? Yet here we are, even surpassing the rare OCTADIGIT PALINDROME date of 02/02/2020. (Not to mention Groundhog Day/Superbowl Sunday Octadigit Palindrome Day.) The year previous was memorable for lots of good reasons. … Continue reading
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2017-18
A slight retrospective. I’m kind of overdue for a check-in here. Even if nobody reads this, I need it to reflect and remember an especially momentous year in my musical sojourn; this last month — and a year ago in November … Continue reading
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Tom Djll CV
“Tom Djll has been making thoughtful, elegant music for nearly 30 years and has taken the trumpet as far beyond its silver, snarling vernacular as it is possible to go, and as far from the extended technique proponents as Bill … Continue reading
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