Rand Steiger

don’t want to say I told you so…..

Time to find a new platform now that fascist sympathizer Elon Musk has taken over. Soon Trump and Putin propaganda will be flooding our feeds….

OK people - time to dump this platform and let Musk and his fascist friends do their propaganda alone….

Here is Longing, my recent piece for violin and electronics, brilliantly performed by Miranda Cuckson vimeo.com/726842107

Composers: Score Follower is taking submissions! Selected works will be made into 'score videos' and uploaded to their YouTube & TikTok accounts. Send your music by March 15 (tomorrow!) scorefollower.org/fms/

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May 2022 bring peace, justice, healing, wisdom, and inspiration

Collaborating with Miranda Cuckson at National Sawdust on March 25. Can’t wait!! live.nationalsawdust.org/event/miranda-…

UCSD is searching for an Ast. Prof. with an innovative creative practice informed by music of the African Diaspora (composition, performance, emerging forms of interdisciplinary practice, etc.) Please help us spread the word far and wide.apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02963

UC San Diego is searching for an Assistant Professor of composition whose creative practice engages creatively with technology. Please help us spread the word far and wide. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02962

Andrea Kalyn, the president of NEC, has withdrawn NEC's support of the great Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice (sicpp) and it can not continue. This is a terrible development. I have written to her about it-you should too. andrea.kalyn@necmusic.edu #savesicpp

@elonmusk - Is this really where you want your employees kids educated? You move your headquarters to TX days after they pass anti-women, anti-voter, and anti-education laws, really? #BoycotTesla slate.com/news-and-polit…

@elonmusk - This is where you want your employees kids to be educated? You move your headquarters to TX right after they pass anti-women, anti-voter, and anti education laws. Keep your crappy cars. #BoycotTesla slate.com/news-and-polit…

read the whole thread….very clear and illuminating…

Spotify distributes a popular podcast that sends anti-vaccine messaging to millions of people. Daniel Ek (Spotify), like Murdoch and Zuckerberg, is killing people by knowingly distributing anti-vaccine information. digitalmusicnews.com/2021/08/02/Spo…

Be careful out there people….

54 Senators voted to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the 1/6 insurrection. 35 Senators voted against it. Because of the preposterous Senate rules, the bill was defeated, even though 61% of the voting Senators were in favor. #This_Is_Not_Democracy

@aaron_mencher Welcome! Looking forward to your arrival. Get in touch if I can be of any assistance with your transition.

i am now on my way from being a "student composer" to being an "emerging composer." i will be starting my PhD at UCSD this fall!

This is the biannual opportunity to apply to have your work included in the excellent, growing Score Follower collection. Deadline is 3/15. scorefollower.org/fms/

ICYMI: “As with everything Betty, it’s complicated.” Fellow @PlantRjp weighs in on the legacy of Betty Friedan, whose papers are housed in our Schlesinger Library (as are the papers of Gerda Lerner, also mentioned in this article). nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/…