2025 Thoughts
✦ May
Catharsis vs. (you guessed it) integration
One of the things I've been thinking about after finishing the draft script for MELISANDE is whether the
Nicole Dieker Finley
2025 Thoughts
✦ May
Federalist Papers #21-22
I have already told you enough times that Alexander Hamilton is a genius, you do not need me to tell
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
In which I solve for relativism
This may be the most important idea I have ever introduced, and it doesn't matter if I'
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
April 2025
Scored "To Grow" for MELISANDE.
Finished drafting the second act of MELISANDE.
Submitted an Illinois Creative Accelerator Fund
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Oscar Wilde on the way socialism could lead to individualism
I did in fact finish drafting MELISANDE this morning, although I suspect I may work through the finale at least
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Page turn
It is very likely that I will finish writing the second act of MELISANDE this week. There is still a
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Federalist Papers #16-20
These are all basically subheds under Federalist #15: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union, so let&
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
One more Unitarian Easter arrangement
When I heard that the message was going to be about Easter as a metaphor for the turning of the
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
So the Unitarians requested "Easter, but not too Easter" and I said "okay, I'll give
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Federalist Papers #13-15
Sooooooooo I was sort of getting bored with these – but then when we got to #15, Hamilton was all "
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
What the world needs now
The best way to tell this story, I think, is backwards.
The Unitarians, having figured out that I can play
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Process update
After about a week in which I spent much of my time messing around with AI voices, I got back
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
Why I'm not worried about AI
What you are about to read was originally written in May 2023; I've been thinking about it recently,
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
In which I get really really really excited about Cantai
So obviously we learned yesterday that Cantamus could turn my MELISANDE files into practice tracks for singers, this is all
2025 Thoughts
✦ April
I was wrong about Cantamus
One of the best reasons to marry the smartest person you know is that this person may turn out to
2025 Thoughts
✦ March
On mimicry and mapping
One of the things I've learned, as I've started accompanying various local choirs and community theater