I’ve just received word that the Guild of Scientific Troubadours has a brief walk-in part in the latest novel being drafted by this fine author. It’s an early draft, so who knows what will happen, but thus far dancing robots, monocles and several songs from this very site have been mentioned.

David Barnett, the Guild salutes you!

Between playing on Wednesday and moving into a new house, there hasn’t been any time for writing and recording – so the 23rd will go by without a new song.

It will arrive soon, along with a penitential cover.

Thanks for understanding.

It’s 11 p.m. Eastern, so I’m claiming this as still the 23rd, and I’m submitting a vastly improved mix of“A Strong Enough Lie.” Drums are now matched to beats, extraneous things have been cut away and that saz part makes more sense.

Sometimes, even coffee isn’t enough to make it all make sense the night before. If you’ve [...]

How did I only find out about this amazing, ambitious site now?

It’s the Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) database, affiliated with the Science Songwriters Association. Any outfit that includes The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets and Mose Allison in the same list is OK by me.

So very many songs…. Breathtaking.

MASSIVE and [...]

Yes, it’s the 23rd. There should be a new song here. There isn’t.

You, oh faithful readers, will have a scientific song rather soon. And then, as is the custom here, you’ll have a truly horrible penitential cover.

Mea culpa.

I’ve just been interviewed in this new zine, Eye Ball.

It is a dictionary of joy and interesting things.

There are entries consisting of bhaji recipes, and of interviews with David Rees of Get Your War On, and of a description of the upside-down horse of Lascaux, and celebrating the Humboldt squid.

If you are reading this here, [...]

I’m blowing this month’s deadline in a big way, I think – moving out of my house this week. Many things in boxes. Phone & internet going down.

But the finished thing should be interesting. And a penitential cover song about science. Not sure which to choose, so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know!

And if you’d like to listen, it’s archived over yonder, or if you’d like to download, try this link here.

The excellently edited voice of your guildmaster appears at around the 15:00 mark.

So I just back from recording a segment for In the Loop, a show from Minnesota Public Radio where it is now unspeakably cold.

We talked about science, not music, but hopefully managed to inspire a few listeners regardless. Between my awkward pauses and strange mouth noises, of course.

I’ll post the podcast when it’s up; the show airs [...]