Last year there was a young man in the songwriting class that didn’t know what to do with the journal request. They were asked to keep daily journals to help […]

On a roll last few nights with fantastic dreams. In the latest I was positioned to meet Bach but Bach was in the form of some type of underwater creature […]

maybe they follow maybe they react with non sequiturs. more and more, taking the musical experience of improvising and re-contextualizing it in non musical life. no difference. the art of […]

Am trying to plan out my songwriting course, specifically how to attempt teaching it online. In one exercise, I asked the students last year to take 20 minutes and eavesdrop […]

Idea for a documentary. Interviewing musicians like Great Bob Scott, who’s drumming virtuosity I find staggering, and inquiring about their conscious mind. What it is doing when they play because […]

An older artist told me she has never understood music and spends a lot of time trying to make sense out of it. She watches videos on great musicians and […]

If you put a fancy piece of music in front of a musician they can’t just play it and all its intricacies immediately. It has to be studied, practised and […]

Watched a squirrel scurry high up an old tree with some leaves in its mouth. It reached the drey it was working on. The squirrel instinctually knows how to build […]

Pàrtly some ride roller coasters for the same reason some take the stage. Puts you in the now. Very unlikely you daydream when everyone is screaming over the speed you […]

Sometimes when people talk about music it sounds like it is a static thing instead of what it is, a verb. Same as when people talk about their minds as […]