Maria Schneider is a composer, conductor, and educator who has been breaking boundaries writing for her own jazz big band for the past few decades. I saw Maria Schneider’s band three years ago at the Newport Jazz Festival and was enchanted by her sound, as was my fellow composer friend Cassie Shankman, who once played […]
Tristan Perich is a contemporary composer from New York City who works magic with slow moving, deliberate, minimal electronics. Tristan is one of the featured artists of this year’s Fast Forward Austin music festival, taking place Saturday April 6th at the Scottish rite theater. Where the Meehan/Perkins Percussion duo will be premiering his new work, […]
Robert Honstein, Steven Snowden, and Ian Dicke are the founders of the young, successful, contemporary classical music festival Fast Forward Austin. They are also all very talented composers in their own right, who met while pursuing doctorates in music composition at the University of Texas at Austin. According to the Fast Forward Austin website, the […]
Nuts and Bolts Music has a huge hard on for the Texas Music Museum. It all started with a trip Tuesday morning to the Austin branch of the Foundation Center, on E. 11th street, to research grants (you can read all about why Foundation Centers are so awesome in our post about music business and money, […]
The weekend of March 1-3, Nuts and Bolts Music had visited the 2013 US conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, held at the University of Texas at Austin, where over a hundred members present papers on topics ranging wildly from Madonna to heavy metal in Pakistan. IASPM is interdisciplinary organization […]
This weekend I adventured into the wild world of popular music studies for three days of panels and presentations at the 2013 International Association for the Study of Popular Music USA Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, March 1-3rd. In this video I asked the panelists of “Imagining America,” Friday morning, March 1st, […]
Follow Nuts and Bolts Music on Facebook! Hey friends, the time has come! My fb status updates were getting so oversaturated with article announcements that (for the sake of not losing my internet friends), I’ve made a facebook page for Nuts and Bolts Music! Go on ahead and give us a “like,” if you are […]
