Alexandra Gardner | Building Noises

Well, it’s official. My brain has automatically switched into archetypal back-to-school mode. I am craving fresh notebooks and new shoes.

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To be honest I haven’t been feeling very talkative lately, so I’ve been keeping things on this side of the firewall. During July and August I took a break from composing to focus on some other [...]

Life since that last post has been quite the adventure! In the pre-dawn hours of December 12th, I awoke to the most extraordinary noise, that went something like this:

*CRACK!*
SSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHcracklecrackleSSSSSHHHHHHHcracklessssssssssss
*BOOOOMmmmmm!*
Repeat every 20-ish seconds

That is the sound of trees falling. Weighted down by a thick coat of ice, thanks to the “wintry mix” that had been falling [...]

It’s totally 150% cliche, but… I love New York! Honestly. When I’m there I buy into the frenzy and run around from meeting to meeting to friend visit to concert to meeting to another friend visit to whatever else comes up to….! I always return to DC completely exhausted and oversensitized and inspired and buzzing [...]

A quickie post to let you know about a new studio recording of electric blue pantsuit, which you can listen to here. Jennifer Choi and I recorded it last spring at Threshold Music. An even more sparkly version will be released on Jennifer’s solo CD soon!
Here is a photo of us performing it last week, [...]

This is turning into a deliciously summery summer, with plenty of exercise (jogging and tennis are my favorites!), fresh vegetables and fruit, spontaneous friend gatherings, sunsets watched from the roof deck.
I am heading out once more to North Carolina, this time for a little beach romp at Blackbeard’s home. Having spent nearly every summer of [...]

Has anyone read this article in The Atlantic?? I thought I was just becoming really scattered; turns out my brain is being reformatted, and it is totally catching!
Truthfully, since entering into a more “webby” existence, my book reading habit has slowed to a crawl…measures are being put in place to fix that. After all, I [...]

A weekday afternoon at the movies is one of my very favorite Decadent Acts. This time it was a tale of an amnesiac assasin….because sometimes a girl just needs a dose of action-packed, booty-kicking, extreme and ambitious special effects glory. You understand. At any rate, the Tangiers fight scene in particular contained some of the [...]