the best he ever had
Someone positioned to win a Polaris prize was talking to people at a xmas party about hating to be surprised. They said you should never edit something after its been […]
Lessons
sound of one mum mapping
There is a great scene in the Kurosawa film Dersu Ursula when the soldiers are sitting around the fire with Dersu, who they only met hours before. He is an […]
haikus
cheese left on trigger mouse knows biting it means death, damn it smells so good *** the shame that you feel is not worth dwelling upon you’ve been fooled again […]
the new student who cancels at the last minute
there is a position you take sometimes when improvising, to bend with the people you are playing with and adjust whatever you might have wanted to do with whatever they […]
a few of my favourite things
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, […]
the compliment
Last week I couldn’t resist, Warner Music seeks to fill an A&R position. I thought this is funny since I used to be an artist on Warner Music, but it […]
the inner gasoline
It is way more common to feel correct about failing than it is to realize you are hitting the mark. When I work with someone and the technique they wish […]
that’s the way it ’tis
I had an assignment due recently for students: write a bad song accompanied by a 2500 word essay re: why it is so bad, how they made it, how they […]
as outside so inside
Sometimes you can listen to the sounds of everything all around you as if it is a song. Sometimes you could also hear yourself, the speaking to yourself about yourself, […]
beating the brain
Teaching an older person. they can’t exactly coordinate hands together the last 3 weeks. Now I’m thinking help lies (as always) in further simplifying the movement and reconsidering how they […]