Bob Wiseman

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student: you ever take drugs? teacher: I have student: did it change your playing? teacher: yes student: so you recommend it? which ones? teacher: salads, maybe pineapple too. student: but […]

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In the book by Daniel Kahneman, he addresses many psychological studies. I see parallels between these and states of piano improvisation. One doozie by Richard Nisbett and Eugene Borgida on […]

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Bernice Johnson Reagon of Sweet Honey in the Rock fame died. She made a memorable essay in the 80s about coalition building. I learned of it when doing my Masters […]

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There was another psychological experiment I read about that stayed with me. In London, by Liverpool Station they had an actor lie on the ground and moan as if in […]

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There is a pattern I’m practicing, I like the way it sounds, I like the math of what it does to my thinking. My wishes that it becomes a move […]

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Planning the new course, how to “teach” music business and how it can be entrepreneurial. I’m organizing their subscription to Bob Lefsetz, Billboard, Exclaim, Earshot! and Amplifyhervoice. Also organizing sections […]

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In the LCBO on the overhead speaker system,  I heard Lotta Love by Neil Young. A contemporary artist covering it. Not the first time it has been covered, Nicolette Larson, […]

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I remembered it all out of sequence. That in itself was fun to lie there longer wondering about. When I woke up I couldn’t recall if I ever had dreams […]

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There is this objective or direction in meditation practices. Look at a candle, observe thoughts without attachment, recite a mantra…all variations of controlling thought, of trying to position consciousness away […]

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Most of the materials I located about creativity in music and business, tend to position these times as though there are no rules. As though only now, in recent years, […]