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January, 2012 January 26: My article "Wagnerpunk: A Steampunk Reading of Patrice Chereau's Staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen (1976)" is now available online as part of the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies special issue on Spectacles and Things - Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism, edited by Nadine Boehm and Susanne Gruss. December, 2011 December 14: My paper "From Nerves to Harps and Back Again: the Music-Aesthetic Implications of Late Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience in the Romantic Era" has been accepted at the University of Hong Kong's conference on Music and the Body in March 2012. November, 2011 November 17: My guest lecture on Ernst Toch's Geographical Fugue at Bar-Ilan University's Music Department was a lot of fun - the students asked me some great questions. October, 2011 October 15: My article "Wagnerpunk: A Steampunk Reading of Patrice Chereau's Staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen (1976)" will be forthcoming in volume 4:2 of the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies. July, 2011 July 11-13: Participating in the Center for Creation, Content and Technology's Summer School at the University of Amsterdam was a really wonderful experience. I learned so much about different psychological, biological and neuroscience-based approaches to empathy and communication, and met many interesting students and lecturers from around the world. A terrific initiative that I can't recommend highly enough. March, 2011 March 30: It was a real privilege to give my paper, "Arrangements of Shirei Eretz Israel as Expressions of the Shifting Politics of Israeli Identity," at the Institute of Music Research's conference on Israeli Music at the SOAS in London. A marvelous four-day event centered on both current and historical developments in Jewish Art Music, the conference was both fun and very informative. February, 2011 February 12: The past month saw my official debut as an academic: I gave a paper on "Arrangements of Shirei Eretz Israel as Expressions of the Shifting Politics of Israeli Identity," at the Yale Music Department's Works-in-Progress Series, and gave another paper, "Putting the Cart(er) before the Horse" at the Stony Brook Graduate Music Symposium. Thanks to the talented folks at Stony Brook for organizing an incredibly fun event! January, 2011 January 20: By popular demand: my Map of the Field of Music Theory, created for the "current trends" seminar at Yale, now available to download for all XKCD fans. January 6: I've been invited to give a research report about the results of my experiment in: "Putting the Cart(er) before the Horse" at the Performance Studies Network International Conference, which will take place at Cambridge University, England on July 14-17, 2011. December, 2010 December 20: My paper, "Putting the Cart(er) before the Horse" was accepted at the Stony Brook Graduate Music Symposium, which will take place on February 11-12, 2011. An abstract is available here. The paper, which I wrote as a final project in Prof. Eve Poudrier's Elliott Carter Seminar, is an empirical study of whether we can hear metric modulations in different contexts. Special thanks to my fellow students for patiently participating in my experiments! August, 2010 August 6: I've been invited to give a paper at the "Art Musics of Israel: Identities, Ideologies, Influences" conference, taking place between Monday 28 March - Thursday 31 March 2011 at the University of London. I'll be discussing "Arrangements of Shirei Eretz Israel as Expressions of the Shifting Politics of Israeli Identity," the abstract is available here. This paper grew out of experiences I had playing in Omer Avital and Israel Borochov's Debka Fantastia Project back in 2008, as well as the Ethnomusicology Seminar I took at Yale with Prof. Sarah Weiss. July, 2010 July 20, 2010: My analysis of Shulamit Ran's String Quartet no. 1 has been published in Israeli Music Institute's journal. You can read the article in Hebrew here, but the original English version should appear sometime this year, as the IMI's website is undergoing an upgrade. Special thanks to Uri Golumb, for his fantastic translation and editorial help!