Performing

Listened to a guy other night at the open stage perform with a machine that starts/ stops loops easily. It had a pitch shifter built into it, his voice could […]

Some books about the mind direct a person to practise stopping thought and have methods like staring at a candle, sitting in lotus position, chanting a name like Honest Ed […]

when mark hundevad said he’s playing tomorrow around the corner from where i live – with juini booth, who i didn’t know of, but who has played with tony williams, […]

at the xmas show, an eight year old on stage was speaking into a microphone and it started to feedback. he froze not knowing what the feedback meant or what […]

Best I think through the hard version, the failure, because if it’s easy there’s no problem. My daughter says easy-peazy-lemon-squeezy. wish that was my back up band, let’s hear it […]

People perform songs in class, develop experience playing in front of others. There is something in this I endorse because it develops one further. We could theorize about it, but […]

Three weeks ago we screened the film Alive Inside for the songwriting class. It’s about dementia seemingly interrupted by listening to music. Hoping to remind the students, even though schools […]

When I was young I thought people older than me probably were much different but over and over it seems reality is that the kid you started out as, remains […]

interviewing rami of foo fighters online today with my class. i hope they have questions for him. not often you get an insider up close and personal when you’re an […]

Sometimes, like viewing footage of a hummingbird in slow motion, breathtaking & extraordinary, just the natural state of the hummingbird, revealed at a human speed of comprehension, beyond words all […]