In southern California (recipient of record rainfall this week), waiting backstage before a performance of new works by students in the formidable UCSD composition program, including Vince Raikhel, Tania Lanfer, David Wightman, Carolyn Chen, Dan Tacke, and Charlie Wilmoth.  Playing fiddle with the Red Light ensemble, a fun group of new music folks from New York.  We’ve been rehearsing and recording since Monday, in the incredible, awesome, beautiful Studio A at UCSD.

It might be weird — but I love the sound of a piano or harpsichord being tuned.  It’s kind of therapeutic, and it’s often been the sound I listen to right before a performance.  I’ve been taking some photos of the brand new hall here, and I couldn’t help catching a little video of this.  A placid prelude to a concert of modernist premieres.

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