Just spent the last few weeks readying some older live recordings of my my music to be released on Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora! 

I finally decided on a title for the piece I'm writing for the Iowa State Symphony performance in the fall. I've been toying with titles for this piece now for a few months, struggling to get the right confluence of words to inspire my creative self into writing the damned piece. This is the title.

I start thinking about Damien Hirst's Medicine Cabinets.  I remember looking at images of them and being drawn to the directness of the subject matter and the simplicity of how boxes and bottles of various mundane pharmaceuticals were arranged within the cabinetry.  White and colors. Simply put, he hung the shelving that you would see in pharmacies on the wall and voila, art…

The Calianno Durational Index and Categories (CDIC) is a method to clearly indicate an approximate duration for a new musical work.