BML Teachers by Instrument & Topics

I am drawn to and heavily influenced by the sounds we tend to overlook/overhear. The grunts, groans, aches, cries of pleasure, joy, and pain that this beautiful and crippled city makes each day have a profound effect on how we are shaping ourselves internally and externally. How can we distill these "noises" which are so personal and simultaneously social and re gift them? Does giving them focus change the way we hear them? How can we plow these personal experiences into our shared musical history and past?

I am influenced by Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, Muddy Waters, Led Zeppelin, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, J.S. Bach, Chris Speed, John Zorn, Sylvie Courvoisier, Milford Graves, Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander, Ernst Reijseger, Myra Melford, Marilyn Crispell, Iggy and the Stooges, Arvo Part, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Professor Longhair, Gygory Ligeti, Oliver Messiaen, Art Lande, George Crumb, Charles Mingus, Albert Ayler, Elliot Sharp, Elliot Carter, Washington Phillips, Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, John Coltrane...

Wayne Shorter, Arnold Schoenberg, Deerhoof, Sam Rivers, Igor Stravinsky, Dirty Projectors, Archie Shepp, Gustav Mahler, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Morton Feldman, Radiohead, John Coltrane, Alban Berg, Animal Collective, Steve Coleman, Claude Debussy, Annie Clark, Duke Ellington, Edgar Varese, The Books, Vijay Iyer, John Cage, Marvin Gaye, Tim Berne, Bela Bartok, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Lehman, Anton Webern, Joanna Newsom, Tyshawn Sorey, Michael J Schumacher, Nels Cline, Ornette Coleman, Milton Babbitt, Grizzly Bear, Charles Mingus

Drummers:
Peter Erskine, Brian Blade, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Matt Chamberlain, Jim Keltner, Dan Weiss, Glenn Kotche, Steve Jordan, Jeff Ballard, Max Roach, Eric Harland, Clarence Penn, Art Blakey
Producers:
Tucker Martine, Jon Brion, Daniel Lanois, Francis and the Lights, Justin Vernon, Chris Taylor, Tim Bluhm, Nigel Godrich, James Blake, Paul Kimble, Twin Shadow