One of my neighbours asked about what I’m doing this summer and I mentioned the upcoming performances in Kingston, Ottawa and Sudbury to which she asked, “you have new material?” […]

Viewing an interview about homelessness. Improvisers are trained in the “yes, and…” business. Building collaboratively from unexpected offerings. Watching the homelessness story, that “yes, and…” takes on somber weight. The […]

The new piano student approached me after attending a Tranzac open stage. Smiling, he asked if I teach. I said I do but I’m expensive. He did not mind. He […]

I took Lyft to pick up my daughter. The driver was an older man. I asked a few questions and he talked a lot about his life, about India, about […]

I was watching everyone in the subway car, how different they all were and thinking it is like an orchestra. One guy wearing a fireman’s shirt, maybe was a fireman, […]

“When I was a little eight year old kid my dad and mom took me over to their friend’s house, who had a theremin. And I was scared to death […]

I once toured Western Canada with a teenager who sang a song about a convict grieving over the woman he had killed. The song focused on how deeply the man […]

Two students last week discussed Trump as outsider artist. One said certain artists disrupt everything like Igor Stravinsky, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Nina Hagen and Kandinsky, Goddard, Fellini […]

Person approached me to apologize for sampling my music. I don’t care, I said. From my point of view, trying to control music is pointless. I. Once read, Trump loves […]