Bob Wiseman

A student in class said it’s possible that death also is life. They all complained that makes no sense, death is the absence of life. Yes, I know he said […]

One of the survey questions I received from the online class of 80 students was how do I get my music to big shots? A great question that makes me […]

I hear a message on the overhead speakers when I ride the subway of the Toronto Transit Commission to stay off the tracks or face a $5000 punishment. I do […]

There are baking tricks, driving tricks, tax tricks, surgery tricks, fishing tricks, covering the presidential debate tricks. No end to the tricks in life for those who see it. Life […]

I played the Jazz festival Colloquium in Guelph under the title improvising melodicism. The more I thought about what I got myself into, the more I realized I couldn’t explain […]

I have an assignment in class after the students view Pussy Riot and Fela Kuti to consider what songs they could write about here and now in Canada that would […]

I started watching Kagemusha which I originally saw in my other life as a Winnipeg teenager at Cinema 3, often. Wow, the music and way of using music. Not what […]

My phone has died, it won’t charge. One thinks about this every so often, how vulnerable everything is centralized on the little gizmo. How much information and recorded memories might […]

In the class survey, one of the queries presented to me from the 80 students in this online course was they wanted songwriting tricks. I didn’t expect that. I love […]