Erin and I met while in graduate school at Bowling Green State University. We collaborated together to create Spate, a piece for bass clarinet which disconnects the actions of the embouchure and the fingers using tablature notation.

Erin recently became a full-time professor at Arkansas State University, which she talks in length about in this episode.

Some of the things discussed:

“Wherever you live, you’re always an active participant in creating the culture there”

“This is going to be a controversial statement: I don’t think it’s a bad time to be in school”

Focusing on the present and immediate things you can control

Pissing some guy off at Grounds for Thought because Erin and I were too loud

The line between being a music student and becoming a music professor is very blurry.

The differing generational experience of female teachers in academia