Relatively new to the conference circuit, I am still teaming with excitement and ideas days after the end of MCM 2009. Four days of new and awesome people, talks of a great range of relevance to my own interests and way too little sleep. Now I am torn between trying to be productive to make the most of my whirring mind, or curl into a sleepy ball to satisfy my spent brain.

In particular, I’ve got a paper idea growing along the themes of temporal variation of rhythmic complexity in Steve Reich‘s music, kind of like Ernst Kurth meets Godfrey Toussaint with me as a translator.