Writing
Newsletters
I like to share my thoughts in written form. In particular, I’m excited about two streams:
Interdisciplinary study of details and large-scale cultural trends.
Multi-modal music making, where knowledge from a number of domains is brought to our traditionally-narrow music pedagogy
Learn with Mike
Love learning? Curious about history, culture, music, and the details of our world? You’ve come to the right place. My newsletter addresses the wonder and delight of learning through the lens of creativity. Each issue I take on a detail that fascinates me and discuss both what I learned and how it impacts my creative process.
On Learning Percussion
Practical practice tips, musings on musicianship, and ideas about productivity, advocacy, and more.
12/22/2023: Learning Goals, Performance Goals, Practice Goals
11/17/2023: 7 Steps to Powerful Personal Statements (and Practicing!)
Other Writing
“Lessons from Long-Term Collaboration.” Percussive Notes 61, no. 6 (2023).
Dispatches from Avaloch. New Music Box, 2015.
Notes on Helmut Lachenmann's Interieur I
Some thoughts on James Wood's Village Burial with Fire
Notes on Kagel's Rrrrrrr…
Notes on Mark Applebaum's Aphasia
Notes on theatrical percussion for the Percussion Collective Robert van Sice
Three blog posts for the Yale School of Music about preparing and performing David Lang's the so-called laws of nature with the Yale Percussion Group
