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also a good opportunity to develop the "but...it looked like it would be so easy to reach that from the ground..." face. (computer: enhance)

that same dork on the rock wall realizing he is not very strong

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 24/08/2026

This was the front yard last year when we moved in.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 24/08/2026

Late summer in the garden. Dug all these beds in early May so I'm pretty pleased with where they ended up, but of course eager for everything to keep maturing.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 12/08/2026

An absolute privilege to record material for my next album with Ned Rothenberg, Erin Rogers, and Lester St. Louis, three musicians I admire enormously. Look for it in mid-2027. (Also, huge thanks to photographer + mensch Bryan Sargent for making us look cool.)

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 11/07/2026

little bit of last night's (really quite loud) set in the wonderfully resonant Collar Works in Troy. Ruining pretty things in pretty spaces, my usual schtick.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 08/07/2026

Playing solo Thursday July 9 at Collar Works in Troy NY. Half an hour of vampy microtonal stuff like this. A showcase for my ample cabling *and* my ineffectual multitasking. 7:00 pm (!), $10 cover, joined by Karen Dazzle, Laughter Has Long Legs, + Pig Butchering. (I should get a stage name.)

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 02/07/2026

But if I reference my most cited publication, it’s just my Bill Murray era:

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 24/06/2026

Garden’s starting to take shape…

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 02/06/2026

I’ll take ontology for $1000

People also ask: Why does jeopardy have to say what is?

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 25/05/2026

The new garden beds I dug aren’t camera ready yet but I do like my little shady patch

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 15/05/2026

Reminds me of one of my favorite Metalocalypse bits:

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 12/05/2026

probably I should just give the machines the polyrhythms.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 07/05/2026

My max/msp students have to include written scores/instructions for their pieces, with "score" understood to mean: "If someone wanted to recreate your composition, what steps would they have to follow?" and this is a real gem from one (excellent) submission:

"Record your housemate practicing saxophone"

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 05/04/2026

the usual, idk. what a time to be alive.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 28/03/2026

Yeah. 2020 irreparably broke some people, chapter 8 million. Literally earlier in that same article :

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 12/03/2026

Spotted @mattsargent.bsky.social in the wild! Amazing performance by him and Taylor Long, of Matt’s piece “Several Angels” and Matthew Goodheart’s piece “Migrations.”

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 27/02/2026

Recent live bloop. I am curious to do the math on what oscillator sync does to some of the 7-limit just intonation ratios. Or do no math at all and just bloop.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 23/02/2026

Due to a last minute snowstorm cancellation I’m hopping on this bill at Desperate Annie’s in Saratoga Springs NY tonight…in the event you’re local and want to hear synthy weirdness.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 23/02/2026

Some beautiful walking and hiking with Mabel today.

Dog in orange vest surveys a snow covered farm.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 12/02/2026

An unimaginable honor to have George Lewis come speak to my advanced music technology course at Skidmore yesterday. Studying with George in grad school will forever be one of the great honors of my life and I am so grateful that my amazing students got to talk to him in this intimate setting.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 05/02/2026

jamming with my new trio: it's me on drums, a generative Max patch in 7-limit just intonation on guitars, and a seasonal affective disorder lamp on lead vocals. taking suggestions for a band name.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 02/02/2026

Since no one has mentioned it yet, the 2019 interview with Giuliani has a truly amazing ending:

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 23/01/2026

i call this one ||:blep blorp:||

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 17/01/2026

Who wore it better me or Jack Nicholson

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 17/01/2026

Snowy Mabel hike to cleanse the TL

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 15/01/2026

I forgot how delightfully sassy some of the Max reference materials are.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 31/12/2025

and then the chorus goes like this

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 31/12/2025

decided there weren't any festive carols about the interminable depression-addled gap of time between christmas and new years so I wrote one.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 22/12/2025

this is how everyone marks up their sessions before editing right

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 20/12/2025

New fuzzy module just dropped.

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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 20/12/2025

Heartfelt thanks to Lee Rice Epstein for including my quartet album on his year-end wrap up. leericeepstein.substack.com/p/this-year-...

$Will Mason Quartet - Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus Recordings) By far, one of the most creative and exciting albums of the year. Is it jazz? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But does it swing? Heck yeah, both mellow and hard. Mason took a radically contemporary approach to the compositions (if you were already onboard with his music, you’ve heard some of the bold tunings and lineups he recorded with on Happy Place’s northfield and tendrils), drawing influence from La Monte Young, but that’s merely a jumping off point for an epically rewarding album.$