David Pedrick

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September 14, 2026

Perchance

Asleep in a dream
Or is it just a half-life of waking?
Unknown in the shroud of languor,
Suspending disbelief in real time.

Or is it just a half-life of waking?
Put on view…

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September 7, 2026

I think it’s safe to say that a song can now be written (generated?) with software as its first audience. A potential listener may still be someone driving to work or relaxing on the beach…

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August 31, 2026 

It’s a tired little ritual of American sprawl. Developers clear-cut a forest, fill in a wetland, grade a hillside flat, and then, with a flourish, name the resulting cul-de-sac “Treetops.” The irony is so reliable…

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August 24, 2026  

Last week, three researchers from the University of Cambridge published a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, in which they used AI to analyze the musical idiosyncrasies of 20 legendary jazz pianists. Why? I’m still…

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August 17, 2026

After the Wake
On the 240th anniversary of the death of Frederick the Great

He found the dark and stays
there most of the time, through
snow, rain, and blackout mornings escaping the front
he…

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August 10, 2026

Lunassagh, often rendered as Lughnasadh, is celebrated on the first day of August and begins as a festival of first fruits, the moment when the land’s long patience finally tips its hand, and its people…

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August 3, 2026  

I’ve struck an interesting balance these past few weeks with a couple of clients who have not only hired me to edit, mix, and master songs, corporate bumpers, and voice-overs, but also to teach them…

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July 27, 2026

American professional musicians today sit in a strange statistical fog, somewhere between official labor categories and the gig economy’s shadows, but the scale is still enormous. Federal and industry estimates suggest well over 150,000–170,000 people…

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July 20, 2026

AI-generated music may be approaching market saturation, and the reason for that is simple: the novelty has worn off. What once looked like a disruptive breakthrough now, in many corners of the industry, looks like…

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July 13, 2026  

There has been a progress, of sorts, in Mozart scholarship over the past couple of years. In September 2024, researchers in Leipzig made a fascinating discovery in a previously unknown string trio from the composer's…