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If you’re at all like me, at one point or another in your education, you had to learn poetic meter — all that stuff about iambic pentameter and whatnot. I think I had to memorize all of the different types of “feet” in seventh grade: iambs, troches, dactyls, and so on. At the time I…Read more Poetic Feet and Mayor Pete

Longtime readers of this blog may recall that I recorded a song called “Soft Light” a while back. Today, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve teamed up with several extremely talented music producers to release eight new versions of the song! The producers are all students in my colleague Jen Mitlas’s music production course at…Read more Soft Light Redux (for a good cause!)

Quick post to say that I’ve released a new ambient music EP titled States of Wonder. It’s free to download… Just click “Get Album” on the following page: https://www.hungryhourmusic.com/state...

Big thanks to Ben Harvey for interviewing me about my book, Tired of California: The Beach Boys’ Holland Revisited on his show, The Broken Records Radio Hour. Here’s the interview (minus the music): Advertisements

Big news! I’m making a movie! It’s called Daughter, Actually, a film about mothers and daughters and the choices they make. I wrote the script, and my friend and colleague Jen Mitlas will be directing. Here’s a bit of background… At the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, TIME’S UP and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative launched the…Read more Daughter, Actually

Actually, it’s not a new website. It’s my old website (marcschuster.com), but I’ve redesigned it. And by “redesigned,” I mean I’ve stripped it down to a bare minimum. Essentially, the site consists of a picture of a human with a dog’s head sitting on a chair beneath a red moon. When you go to the…Read more How My New Website Works

Here’s something I’ve been working on… It’s a new video from my band, Plush Gordon. The song is called “The Darkest Moon.” Musically, it has hints of Pink Floyd, the Jesus and Mary Chain (“Just Like Honey,” in particular) and Joy Division (“Atmosphere”). It has also drawn positive comparisons to The Church (“Under the Milky…Read more “The Darkest Moon”

As longtime readers of my blog have probably noticed, I’m love all aspects of music — making it, listening to it, reading about it, writing about it — so it may come as little surprise that I’ve decided to take my interest in music to a new level by starting a label. It’s called Hungry…Read more A New Venture

This one’s a little odd, particularly the first track, but my new band’s debut EP is now available on BandCamp. The EP is called Fits and Starts. Contained therein are: A brief song (25 seconds) about a rubber-band ball A song about a man who works at a grocery store A song about Gregor Samsa…Read more Plush Gordon debut now available!

Originally posted on Composer's Toolbox:
For those of you itching to listen to Terry Riley and Lamonte Young-like minimalist electronic music (I know I want to from time to time), take a listen to “Murmurings” by Android Invasion.  With a a swarming background of noise, a series of chords come in and out of…