>> misc // simply designed websites and interesting people
Remember the days when personal websites had random links and there was
a certain thrill in getting lost in the web by following those links?
... university home pages feature some of the most fascinating people ...
... so do the web sites of New York based musicians and real web cognoscenti ...
... no blogs or myspace sites ...
... random searches for random things have revealed ...
... some of the content on this site was inspired by visiting some of the sites listed below ...
... so, if you're bored ...
Some Low-Cal Websites and Generally Cool People Worth Checking Out
[sorry for the lame and plain descriptions]:
... But First, Some Frequently Visited Sites
http://www.canucks.com
My favourite hockey team, no matter where I live.
http://www.vancouversun.com
Keeping up with Metro Vancouver, BC happenings.
http://www.vancouverjazz.com
Keeping up with Metro Vancouver Jazz happenings.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com
All about ... Jazz.
http://www.musicasacra.com
All about ... Sacred Music in the Roman Catholic Church.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/msg
San Francisco Bay Area Craiglist Musical Instruments Classifieds.
http://www.maydaygroup.org
A music education think tank promoting the use of Critical Theory.
http://act.maydaygroup.org
The MayDay Group's associated eJournal entitled Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education.
King Crimson Members
http://www.tonylevin.com
Bassist Tony Levin's bass domain. There's some funny stuff here if you go digging.
http://www.treygunn.com
Touch guitarist Trey Gunn's web site.
http://www.adrianbelew.net
Guitarist and singer Adrian Belew's home page.
http://www.patmastelotto.com
Drummer Pat Mastelotto's domain.
http://www.dgmlive.com
Robert Fripp's House.
http://www.billbruford.com
The original progger himself.
http://www.guitarcraft.com
Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft.
Low Cal Design Websites
http://www.korvus.com
The home page of Sylvan Korvus, a self-professed web geek and vegan freak.
Conductors
http://www.garydcannon.net
Seattle-based conductor, tenor, and musicologist Gary Cannon's home page.
http://www.heathermaclaughlin.com
Conductor Heather MacLaughlin's website.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~gaw9/index.htm
Choral conductor Gary Weidenaar's home page.
Multi Disciplinary People
http://www.ram.org
Ram Samudrala's Ramblings. Lots of neat information, ideas, and opinions here!
http://www.geocities.com/thirdrailmusic/
A superb thinker, musician, luthier, and all around great friend Dr Jared Burrows's web site.
http://www.astralsite.com
The domain of Dr Selia Karsten, multi-disciplinary polymath.
http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~ilangz/
Philosopher and educator Ilan Gur-Ze'ev's home page.
http://www.courtneybrown.com
Mathematician, social scientist, and singer Dr Courtney Brown's web site.
http://www.erictamm.com
Writer of the influential biography of Robert Fripp which helped to steer my creative energies
early in my youth. Mr Tamm is also
a painter, musician, and scholar.
Modern Day Philosophers
http://www.phil.upenn.edu/~cubowman/index.html
Philosopher Curtis Bowman's home page. Some really fascinating stories can be found here.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/
Philosopher Douglas Kellner's web site. More fascinating stories and ideas.
http://diannecyr.com
An interdisciplinary scholar.
http://www.andreacentazzo.com
Andrea Centazzo: percussionist, artist, and all-around Renaissance man.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~aajth/Personal/cv.htm
The massive curriculum vitae of music education guru Jere Humphreys.
http://www.jeanmcniff.com/index.html
Action researcher Jean McNiff's website.
http://www.henryagiroux.com/index.html
Noted communication studies professor and critical theorist Henry Giroux's website.
Net Label Sites
http://www.sigmaeditions.com
Sigma Editions is a New York based experimental music label.
http://www.notype.com/nishi/index.html
Nishi, an electronic and experimental music label.
http://www.kikapu.com/label/index.html
Another interesting net label specializing in electronic and experimental music.
http://this.is/kitchenmotors/
Kitchen Motors is a multi-disciplinary art collective.
Creative Musician Domains
http://www.m-base.com
Steve Coleman's site. Reflections on MBase and his other work. Lots of free recordings!
http://www.drstevegadd.com
Steve Gadd's site. Lots of pictures from Gadd's past to browse through.
http://www.stevekhan.com
Steve Khan's site. Some cool reflections, essays, transcriptions,
and an enormous 'favourites' section found on this site.
http://www.wattxtrawatt.com
Steve Swallow's and Carla Bley's site. Lots of neato simple graphics and places to explore.
http://www.vitalinformation.com
Steve Smith's web sites. Another Steve? Yep, this one used to play in Journey!
http://www.jimblack.com
Drummer Jim Black's home page.
http://www.edfriedland.com
Bassist Ed Friedland's cool site. Check out his bass collection and the adjoining samples!
http://www.ericeagle.com
Seattle-based drummer Eric Eagle's site.
http://www.fredfrith.com/index.html
Guitarist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith's website.
http://www.ramboyrecordings.com
Netherlands-based improvising musician Michael Moore's website.
http://www.ronanguilfoyle.com
Irish Acoustic Bass Guitarist Ronan Guilfoyle's home page.
http://www.softspeakers.com
Musician Hayden Chisholm's weblog and online archive.
http://www.robhamilton.ca
Fellow Capilano College alumnus Rob Hamilton's cool page.
http://www.jeffyounger.net
Another fellow Cap College alumnus Jeff Younger and his cooler page.
Composers
http://www.abbiebetinis.com
Composer Abbie Betinis's home page.
http://www.sfu.ca/~eigenfel/
Simon Fraser University's Arne Eigenfel.
http://www.mcginnmusic.com
The web site of composer, pianist, organist, painter, and 'all-around good guy' Marty McGinn.
http://jeff.ostrowski.cc
One of Jeff Ostrowski's many home pages. Highly graphical site in a circa-1996 old days
of the Internet kind of way.
Interesting and passionate views on Catholic Church music.
Though I don't necessarily agree with everything he says,
one's got to give him props for trying!
New York Based Musicians
http://www.erikfriedlander.com
New York-based cellist and leader of Topaz Erik Friedlander's site.
http://www.perowsky.com
New York-based drummer Ben Perowsky's domain.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dnb208/
New York-based sacred musician and teachers Dr David Bower's home page.
http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com
New York-based composer and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier's website.
http://peterscherer.com/index.html
New York-based composer and keyboardist Peter Scherer.
http://www.benmonder.com
New York-based improvising guitarist Ben Monder's website.
Informational Sites
http://www.see.org/e-ct-dex.htm
On Creative Transformation.
http://www.gdrc.org/kmgmt/c-learn/index.html
On Collaborative Learning.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98tk/index.html
Tied Knowledge: An academic ebook regarding power in higher education.
http://www.tonmeister.ca
Geoff Martin's page on acoustics, audio recording, and other stuff.
