Current State
Updated June 2025, from Barcelona
Playing
Just returned from Cremona—Monteverdi's Vespers with Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, and La Capella Reial de Catalunya. The heart of violin country, where even the stones remember Stradivari. That final Amen—improvised, eternal. Read the full reflection.
Preparing for Vienna, 20–26 May: Beethoven Symphonies 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9 at the Wiener Konzerthaus. The shift from Monteverdi's divine architecture to Beethoven's human struggle—this is why I love this work.
Writing
- Observations accumulating toward critical mass
- This site's navigation reimagining (Alexandrian patterns)
- Exploring semantic post types as forms of attention
- Morning pages when home, fragments when traveling
Reading
- Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway—clockwork plot with heart
- The Craftsman by Richard Sennett (perpetual re-read)
- Latest Paris Review and current New Yorker
- Beethoven Symphony scores with fresh bowings
Teaching
Private mentoring in Barcelona—viola technique through the lens of presence. Currently selecting young artists for upcoming academies. Watching how students discover what they already know.
Tools This Season
- Leuchtturm A6 (black, dotted) for this tour cycle
- Testing the iA Notebook for longer-form thinking
- Lamy 2000 rollerball on the road
- Coffee: Colombia El Tabor from Coutume, Paris
Listening Beyond Work
Nils Frahm's latest—prepared piano as meditation
Brian Eno—always, endlessly
Hania Rani's On Giacometti—sculpture translated to sound
Living
Barcelona spring—the city between seasons. My son grows more present though not yet born. The desk by the northeast window remains the morning anchor when home. Walking the Gràcia streets, collecting patterns.
This page tells you what I'm doing now. Inspired by Derek Sivers and the /now movement. For the deeper why, see the colophon.