I was at AGO the other day, checking out the Rubens show with 3 kids I was babysitting. Walking through the exhibit one thinks about the 1600s and we started […]

you can discuss songwriting, inspect techniques, position people to write and perform and discuss their work or the works of others. but the work is them doing and them doing […]

i dreamt a video idea for a song of mine. i would like to put in a request with the universe for that to happen a few more times please.

The last album presentation in class, where three students explore the songwriting of one album and then enlighten the rest of us in a thirty minute presentation about what they […]

at first i thought the guy that cut me off in traffic so perfectly was an asshole. i didn’t see it coming but there he was paying great attention to […]

a lot of people believe there is some big cheese in control of everything. it is an understandable position, it spreads a lot of comfort to believe that’s the end […]

a musician i know suffers with depression. it makes me wonder how i don’t suffer with depression or at least how i am not immobilized by depressed thoughts like him. […]

like when you have a song stuck in your head and you don’t quite realize it yet you’re singing it, whistling it, everywhere, a few hours go by before you […]

Chalanis Cheslovsky, linked to Stravinsky in their youth, gave an interview about why he had no choice but to compose the radical music he made. She explained it by saying […]

Even electronic sounds are based on magnets and electrons which we discovered and did not invent. We didn’t invent sound, we created instruments but did not invent sound anymore than […]